Children are taught very little with respect to their approach to the internet, which is probably the crux of another problem. One, I argue, that is more significant.
First and foremost, if they are taught anything at all, it’s a very shallow “don’t tell anyone anything personal about yourself” mentality. If this terrible message succeeds, the [...]
I know this is old news, coming from April 2007, but it has been bugging me all year.
How the hell does a 30 year old woman pretend to be a 14 year old boy, move in with a 14 year old girl, be in a relationship for a year, have “the sex” with her, and [...]
This occurred in the state of Virginia, though it’s fairly universal problem.
A suspicious looking box found near Lewis-Gale Medical Center Thursday afternoon was, in fact, a remote weather station that had been affixed the tree by an employee and not an explosive device. The box, which was constructed with putty and wires, was probed by [...]
Public beta for new website for Megatokyo webcomic. CountAlpicola, Kalium, Dark Morford and I were working on this in secret for the last 10 months. I’m glad it’s finally seen the light of day.
This was started by another team some three years ago, but restarted from scratch by our team in January 2007.
Features are numerous, [...]
I’ve move to Hamilton, to work for VMware Canada, out of their Burlington office. I’ll be supporting VMware Infastructure 3, in the Fault group.
My last day at MNSi was Friday September 21st, 2007. The position served me well these past 33 months. I look forward to taking the skills I’ve developed and going forward. If [...]
I have always enjoyed the Myst universe, both games and books. I am happy that URU was created, and wish to play. I was part of the public beta in late 2006, but stopped playing when the beta expired. Now that summer will afford a little more free time, I decided to reinvestigate the [...]
Patrick Gibson finished off his Adium Time Zone plugin. It was featured as Xtra of the Moment on AdiumXtras on April 3rd, 2007.
This plugin adds time zone functionality to Adium by letting you specify a time zone for each contact. You will then be able to see their local time in the their tooltip when [...]
A federal judge has struck down the Child Online Protection Act. The judge said that parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit others’ rights to free speech. This is the law that required all commercial distributors of “material harmful to minors” to restrict their sites [...]
James Van Iveren in Wisconsin heard a woman shrieking for help in apartment upstairs. With no telephone to call the police, he took matters into his own hands, equipped his antique sword, and kicked down the door to save the damsel in distress. In unpleasent contrast, he discovers his neighbour sitting alone, watching porn.
So now [...]
I was starting another assignment/project for one of my classes at the University, and found myself wishing that I had a Subversion repository available on the computer science server, luna.
So I made a little post on the Ataraxis forums asking for the Subversion tools to be made available on Luna.
After a few “hell yeahs” from [...]