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IP Monitor for Java

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IP Monitor for Java I've just released the first release candidate of IP Monitor for Java. I intend to carbonize the native version for OS X at some point in…

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TV Turn-off Week

25 years ago

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It was TV Turn-off Week. I was too busy to care. Holly red hat! Google uses over 8000 Linux boxes. And I thought my home/office was crowded. Have you tried s…

Have you tried searching for songs on Napster lately? Don't you love that No Results? I wonder when they'll actually start pushing their new pay services. Looks to me like they're waiting for everybody to leave first.…

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Dinner and a Movie

25 years ago

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Dinner and a Movie It was our first time at Daniel's in Bellevue. It's no Morton's but it wasn't bad at all. Especially when considering our last experience…

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Trivia

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Trivia With which country is the Negev desert most associated? He is one of the Select Five--the first five men voted into the Hall of Fame. He was a pitcher…

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This Day in History

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This Day in History 1808 At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded. 1836 The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army…

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Rock Salt

25 years ago

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Rock Salt Vicki and I went to the Rock Salt Steak House on Lake Union, for dinner, on Valentine's Day. I had never heard of the place until our favorite radi…

First Time.…

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Game Over

25 years ago

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MP3 Connector I just ordered one. We currently have to un/plug our computers from the stereo in our home-office. Sounds like this little device will do the t…

"Last Sunday night, at 8:30 pm est, DirecTV fired their new gun. One week before the Super Bowl, DirecTV launched a series of attacks against the hackers of their product. DirecTV sent programmatic code in the stream, using their new dynamic code ally, that hunted down hacked smart cards and destroyed them. The IRC DirecTV channels overflowed with thousands of people who had lost the ability to watch their stolen TV. The hacking community by and large lost not only their ability to watch TV, but the cards themselves were likely permanently destroyed. Some estimate that in one evening, 100,000 smart cards were destroyed, removing 98% of the hacking communities' ability to steal their signal. To add a little pizzazz to the operation, DirecTV personally 'signed' the anti-hacker attack. The first 8…