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BanDiDo 'Wins' Free Trip To The US

BanDiDo, leader of the now former DrinkOrDie pirate group is coming to the United States after a long battle to fight extradition from his home land of Australia. All other people involved in the DrinkOrDie bust have already gone through trial and serving their sentences. For Microsoft, I bet they

Year Of Python

Troutgirl says that this is the year of python [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/45_Year_of_Python.html], and I have to agree. I've been seeing python in the news and blogosphere a lot in recent months. I'm just glad to hear that

Parading Without A Permit

Emmanuel Goldstein, editor and founder of hacker magazine 2600 [http://www.2600.com/] has been arrested in NYC for "parading without a permit," In other words, he and 900 or so other people were marching in protest at the Republican National Convention. I guess the freedom to protest

I'll Be Back For The Rest

HackWire reports [http://www.hackwire.com/comments.php?id=116&catid=2] that Microsoft has been hacked, but this is no run-of-the-mill DOS attack or website defacing, we are talking about the break in to hardware that holds source code to unreleased programs: > A recent break-in to Microsoft&

A Bloggers Worst Nightmare

Troutgirl posted how she got 'terminated [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/46_Shitcanned.html]' on monday > So I was terminated from Friendster today. The reason given was blogging. She refers to 2 blog [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/22_Friendster_goes_PHP.html]

Geek Politics

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Scoble Grasping At Straws

In great efforts to help Microsoft sell more tablet computers Scoble says [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/08/31.html#a8173]: > Personally, why get this when you can actually get a Tablet PC that you can take off your desk and walk around with? For instance, the Averatec

The New iMac

Even though Apple said when they released the "iLamp" iMac that things run better when they are horizontal, I have to say who cares when it looks this good. Its close to the same spec of the G5 1.6 I'm using right now, so I

The Surprise At Liz Phair

Shannon and I last week bought tickets to the Liz Phair [http://www.lizphair.com/] show playing at the Kool Haus located in downtown Toronto. I haven't been to the Kool Haus (formally known as the Warehouse) for quite some time (Lowest of the Low concert) and its

Fuzzy Logic

[http://ddll.sdf1.net/images/DSCN0299.jpg] A couple of weeks ago Shannon and I lost [http://ddll.sdf1.net/archives/002734.html] our HP 4MP digital camera. Since we had a second wedding to go to(last Friday) we went out and got a new one. We ended up