Adventures As Me

Recently, Borland announced the revival of their “Turbo” line of products. This was the line of products that made the company famous, in the day. TurboPascal, then TurboC, TurboBasic and other languages. Inexpensive, powerful development environments and toolkits.
Anyway, you can find more details elsewhere. What struck me is how humorous their TuborExplorer website is. Each [...]

There are at least two ways one can go about relocating:

Pack up everything and go
Get rid of all but the necessities/expensive items and go

Method one is great for small moves: across town, to a different county, moves less than a few hours distant. Otherwise the expenses start accumulating. Unless of course, someone else [...]

Kasia writes:

What’s tracking and keeping tabs on us?

Wherein she presents a nice list of devices, companies and more than exist to accumulate data on a person, his whereabouts and more. Here are some to add:

Company proxies and filters
Biometric scanners
Credit reports
Demographic data wholesalers
Any subscription service (e.g. XBox Live, Family Circle)

The scary [...]

What if Microsoft bought IBM?

The story finally hit Slashdot: a Wordpress developer uses unethical means
to raise money for the site/project. While WordPress the project and
software will continue, the blight this action caused undermines not
only the integrity of the project as a whole, but the person that
perpetrated this. Rather than using the various, well-proven, methods
for raising funds he turns to [...]