A good read about how the cable industry in the U.S. is getting away with highway robbery, monopolization, and stifling progress. This really needs to change. “If you’ve got a commodity that everybody needs as an input into their businesses, like take railroads for example, and it costs a lot…
If you use the Carbonite cloud-based backup tool for Mac, you may notice that your computer’s fans are running loud and often, and that the Carbonite daemon is running at 80-120%. This gets really, really annoying after not too long. I’ve dealt with it for two years by pausing backups…
Apparently there is a band called Deep Chatham. Weird. I wonder if they know my nickname in high school was Deep Chatham. Their website is deepchathammusic.com. I have a website called chathammusic.com. Even weirder. In other news, my solo album, Geekamongus, made it onto the Mountain Xpress’s list of 16…
A pretty interesting analysis of major websites and what they do with your personal data. Why would ESPN want to send my username to Adobe? Why is Pinterest sending my name to Google Analytics? I’m interested to see who is bothered by this, or if anything is done about it.
