In their most recent Blogpost, The Microsoft IE7 Development Team announced the imminent release of RC1, and have included a list of what improvements in web standards compliance have been completed in this release, as well as a rundown of the things that will be left for the next release. They’ve been busy. The list […]

The Senate, in making up their minds about whether the Telecomms are to be trusted or not when their PR flacks say that regulation is not needed for internet network neutrality, should pay attention to what Verizon and BellSouth just did in response to the end of the Universal Service Charge Fee.
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In a recent PCMag article, John Dvorak explores what Google Muni Wifi means to the Telecomms. It’s a very interesting read. He speculates that something that began with Google as a simple civic idea for their hometown was escalated due to Telecomm “saber-rattling over tiered service” and now might actually morph into a lucrative profit […]

I’m glad the courts upheld the Constitution on this Wiretap issue. What I haven’t been able to understand from the beginning of this whole round of domestic eavesdropping stuff is how much times have changed. Nixon was impeached for one amateur wiretap, yet the word Impeachment has never come up in relation to Bush doing […]

Recently this summer I went mobile. Packed up the dog, the cat and my laptops and went and stayed at a friend’s house for awhile, out in the country. He and his wife were out of the country and needed someone to hold down the fort, feed his menagerie of three dogs, one cat, two […]