January 2012
3 posts
BAR SOPA
Speaking as someone who’s made a living for the past 20 years producing content that is often pirated, I am strongly opposed to SOPA/PIPA. They are the wrong answer to the wrong question. They are an attempt to finish the work started by the repugnant DMCA. The lobbyists of SOPA/PIPA are making a statement: “We’re not making enough money by overcharging for movie tickets....
Jan 18th
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Deployment Report: Humanscale M8 Monitor Arm
I have a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display, which has given me good service for many years; however, I’ve long desired greater flexibility of placement, more free space on my desktop, and generally a workspace that is a better ergonomic fit. After some investigation, I settled on the Humanscale M8. One of the problems I ran into with monitor arms in general is that there’s such a dizzying...
Jan 12th
Deployment report: CarMD "Vehicle Health System"
Deployment report: CarMD “Vehicle Health System” The CarMD product is a combination of a hardware product (an OBD-II code reader) and a web service, with a little bit of desktop software to tie it together. The hardware product is roughly the size of a fat TV remote; it fits reasonably well into one’s hand. On one end there’s a connector that plugs into the OBD-II...
Jan 9th