March 2009
The Archives
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03.30.09Carbonite – It’s better than a poke in the eye Miscellaneous (1)
At the end of the year, I subscribed to an online service called Carbonite. This watches folders that you designate and uploads files from them to Carbonite’s secure servers. The files are encrypted, and only you can access them. (Supposedly.) I took this step because I realized I have over 50 gigabytes of data and […]
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03.18.09Reminder: Better of Ted tonight Movies and TV Comments Off on Reminder: Better of Ted tonight
Just a friendly reminder that the premier of Better off Ted (ABC) is tonight at 7:30 central. Set your DVRs appropriately. Just in case you missed it the first time around, I posted a teaser a few weeks ago.
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03.06.09
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03.05.09The Tower of e-Babel is Leaning on Me Books (2)
In the five years that I’ve been involved in publishing e-books, I’ve eagerly followed the progress of the publishing industry’s efforts to create a universal e-book format. It all made sense. Why have a bunch of competing formats that become obsolete as you upgrade your reading device? Still, it was all somewhat academic. I didn’t […]
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03.04.09Bad Ideas Seen on the 'Net Comments Off on Bad Ideas
It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out that if you work for a defense contractor you probably shouldn’t put peer-to-peer software on your work computer. Something like this could happen. Now consider… what do you have on your personal hard drives that shouldn’t be shared? Bank records from Quicken or MS Money? Passwords? Information […]
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