i·me·michael

You know you’ve been spending too much time on the internet when you start seeing e-rocks.

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Hackers on PBS—excellently done. Microsoft’s vulnerability is a key point in the show. Show stopping security in Windows 2000? The hackers are laughing. E-Commerce needs to sit up and take notice.

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Whew! Close one!! I forgot to close a tag properly, and almost blew up my blog. It wouldn’t let me edit the post as I would normally, so I was unable to fix it at first. I had to backtrack from a more current post down about a hundred or so until it picked it [...]

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Apparently lines have been drawn. Just in the wrong place.

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Uh-oh, the writing is on the wall.
Ask yourselves this though. Why does the Record Industry own the rights to a recording artists music? Novelists, poets, and the like own the rights to their own works. They can move from publisher to publisher and take their work with them. Publishing a book with one house or [...]

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Keep Out! No Apple Users Allowed Here by Jim Heid talks about a nasty trend that seems to be working its way through the Web. It seems that it’s becoming less and less of a Mac friendly world out there. And the Mac community is beginning to get upset. Dare I even say worried?
To quote:
“Mac [...]

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Ok, well, I did it. I bought a digtal camera. It’s not like I don’t already have enough toys, but I have been shopping for a camera anyway. I still intend on getting a good 35mm SLR but this digital gem was just so inviting. What’s one more toy on the junkpile anyway?

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I picked up the Nick Drake Box Set over the weekend. Haven’t stopped listening to it since. Now I remember what it is I love about the guitar. Thanks Nick.

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The term FUBAR is never more aptly used than when describing NY during a snowstorm. The plows are sitting around doing nothing, no one knows how to drive safely, and what could be a fairly easygoing, if not heightened safety alert of a commute, becomes an episode of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
To [...]

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It’s being discussed on thousands of blogs around the world. Anger and frustration are being vented everywhere, and gossip runs rampant. People are exiting the stadium as if the game is over. It’s a shame the way brush fires start and can consume an entire forest so rapidly.
There is no need for eulogies. And blame [...]

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