One of the continuing discussions about Wikipedia is whether it is useful as a real source of information or not (as you would expect, say, the Encyclopedia Britanica or the World Book Encyclopedia to be). Another recent piece has emerged from the blog of Keith Stattenfield that describes the back-and-forth …

Well, not that anyone's all that surprised, but Apple finally recalled the MacBook Pro batteries. Batteries sold between February and May are likely to qualify (those whose serial number ends in U7SA, U7SB, or U7SC). The web site indicates that it is performance issues and not safety that is the …

Flip4Mac, the plug-in that allows QuickTime to play Windows Media files (.wma, and .mwv) is now available for download as a Universal Binary, so those of us with Intel Macs can also enjoy it. I haven't finished testing it yet, but chances are that it's every bit as nice as …

Just in time for the back to school rush, Apple's iPod content management system for Universities gains steam. According to an article in eSchool News, Apple's service that gets university lecture content online is being used by schools to allow people not enrolled in classes to get access to their …

Didn't know whether to put this pointer to an article from BBC News in Policy, Technology or Travel, as it deals with the Policy of British customs officials to use technology (in the form of a software scanner) to look for porn on the laptops of travelers. Amusing note: I …

Ok, gamers, here's an ad (ok, it's more like a PSA) for an in-game device that looks terribly cool. Thanks to RS for sending this one along.

Apple announced this week their 3rd quarter earnings, and they looked great! Check them out if you have a chance, but the important numbers are about half a billion in profit, 1.3M Macs sold (second largest quarterly sales of Macs in history, and best since 1Q2000) and good iPod …

An article from Wired looks at a number of recent fear articles about Apple and tries to boil things down. The summary is that in the absence of exciting new announcements, every bit of bad press about Apple is making near- mainstream status. Further, Apple has had a number of …

Wired has a good overview of green car technologies today, including flex-fuel, diesel, and hybrid cars. It's not terribly in depth, but it hits the high points and some of the low points of each of the now-available or available-this-year technologies.

So, you've been reading a lot about Global Warming and other environmental topics and you're interested in finding out just how much the power in your area pollutes. However, you're interested in more than just Carbon load, since although you may not believe in Global Warming, you are pretty certain …

Google (or google if you ask the Merriam- Webster dictionary) is now officially a verb. According to a story from CNet, Google was added to the EOD on June 15th of this year, and today Merriam-Webster added google.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the subject of a profile in Wired magazine. For those of you unfamiliar with the organization, it's a sort of ACLU with a strong technology bent and they've been at the forefront of issues such as the SONY/BMG case which dealt with copy …

So, given that we've now heard about 2 "defections" from the Macintosh to Ubuntu, I wanted to see what the fuss is all about, so that I could comment on things. So, I downloaded (via bittorrent) the latest (6.0.6) version of Ubuntu and gave it a whirl. My …

There have been a lot of reports lately about the loss of large volumes of data (thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of records in the public space and enterprise space), but one question I don't see often asked: Why so much data? And what should be done …

I know there are going to be plenty of people out there on the net that disagree with me, but yesterday's 66-34 vote that missed by one the opportunity to amend the US Constitution is both a happy thing and a sad thing. I'm certainly happy that it didn't make …

Wired has a cute piece about the words that have emerged surrounding the iPod and it's use. And, although I've never heard of it being called the iPizzle, the article is pretty funny.

Just for fun, here's the article that I wrote on March 6th 2003 that spawned the idea for my recently issued patent. I still think it's a frightening idea, but at least now I might have some control over whether it happens. While writing a summary story on a Wired …

Mr. Gore has a point. Carol and I have been putting off going to see An Inconvenient Truth for the last few weeks out of concern over boredom, propaganda, and general bad moviemaking. The reviews of this movie by others (which many of you may know I don't usually read …

The following is the text of a letter that I wrote in response to an article in the Washington Post this morning. The article asserted that pro-net neutrality groups' call to "keep the Internet where it belongs -- in the hands of its consumers" is "empty fluff that is obviously designed …

According to an article from this morning's Washington Post, the Hubble Space Telescope, producer of many of the best space images the world has seen, is now limping along without the use of its Advanced Camera for Surveys. The project page provides some details of the ACS, which is the …