The government really ought to just nationalize the credit card industry, stop printing cash, and give everyone a free credit card. Then they can take 2.5% of everything that anyone ever spends (instead of AMEX/Visa/MC/etc.) and do away with the dumb income tax system. The savings in overhead, reco… Read full post »

Wow. How can MS be so stupid? They bundle Flash with Windows and not Silverlight? Doh!

First, baseball wanted Microsoft to make it possible for users to download Silverlight without having to possess administrative rights. When people are at work, it’s often the company that… Read full post »

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.3 is available now. You can download it from the OpenLaszlo Download page. It is the recommended platform for all application development for the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes. OpenLaszlo 4.3 is a major release, with almost 300 bugs fixed since OpenLaszlo… Read full post »

We all know about turning off data roaming (Settings/General/Network/Data Roaming), so our phone doesn’t run up our bill checking email when traveling out of your service area, but recently someone asked me how they could turn off the phone altogether (so they don’t make a phone call @ $2… Read full post »

A reader from Germany writes:

Laszlo has to sell products and make money, but I think the OpenLaszlo platform has lost in priority with the current management. Not money-wise (how much money they spend on it), but seeing it as a marketing-vehicle for the company.

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We recently had a bug report that the debugger started issuing a warning in code where it had not before:

WARNING: reference to undefined property 'length'

The initial fix proposed was to simply change:

foo.length

to:

foo.['length']…

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These are the portions I use, which fill my biggest (8 Quart) pot. You may want to reduce.

Beans: I buy as many different dried beans as I can, I like the Goya brand, and mix them together to create 2 cups. You may want to just use… Read full post »

Are the record labels finally realizing that treating your best customers as criminals is not the way to make money?

… it sounds like the labels are, for the first time, interested in having the right discussion.

Labels Open to Collective Licensing on Campus | Electronic Frontier Foundation… Read full post »

The Pains

I’m reading John Sundman’s latest book “The Pains”. It’s his third book, and he continues to amuse me! I’ll be ordering a signed copy, to complete my collection. Someday these things are going to be worth something… Read full post »

If noose minus ‘o’ rhymes with hose,
Why does loose minus ‘o’ rhyme with shoes?
Loose noose, or lose nose? You choose. Read full post »

The internet has enabled people to communicate and cooperate with a new freedom. Unfettered communication has allowed people to find we are not as different as the pundits would have us believe, that we do have common interests, and that we can work together to support a leader who will… Read full post »

Who needs a MacBook Air? Well, I would sure love one as my ultra-portable. But, what if I could just add an external keyboard (and display? via an A/V cable)?

BTKeyMini arrives this March, it will work with the iPhone

Macworld | Editors’ Notes… Read full post »

So, in addition to my bizarre experience where I started selling DVDs on ebay that I did not own, I just had a company that I used to do business with email me and tell me that the company they use to manage their user accounts had had all their data… Read full post »

Here’s how I did it. Slight variation on GMail’s instructions:

In Apple Mail, set my gmail/POP account to inactive. Create a new gmail/IMAP account. Under Preferences/Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors uncheck all the boxes to store messages on the server. (Because mail sent through GMail is… Read full post »

So, I got one. (Did you think I wouldn’t?)

My justification: I wanted a new iPod, because it is too hard to find your place in an audio book on a shuffle. And I don’t want to have to carry an iPod and a cell phone.… Read full post »

Apple and EMI announced today that they will be offering music without DRM protection for an extra 30 cents. Huzzah! Someone finally gets it. Give your customer a fairly-valued product and you don’t have to treat them as criminals.

iTunes customers will be… Read full post »

RIAA launches propaganda, lawsuit offensive against college students

Unless the music industry wises up, it will be faced with a long and protracted battle that may end up alienating the next generation of music fans.

The latest BS from the RIAA: They send you a letter… Read full post »

Vacation email === evil. Just say no.

• It goes wrong too often.

• No one is so important that we all need to know they are on vacation.

• If you are important to me, I had better have more ways to contact you than by just email. And

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