The BBC has a really paranoid article about hackers being able to sniff out your keystrokes via the power circuit to which your computer may be connected. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to laptops, and from the article they’re only testing this out on PS/2 keyboards with really crappy shielding. Apparently due to poor shielding, data … Read more
The Associated Press (AP) has a story about Twitter users transmitting short cooking or baking recipes in 140 characters or less. (Check out the article for specific Twitterers that do this.) Why 140 characters? This is the hard limit Twitter sets on tweets so that it works in the confines of the SMS/text-messaging character limitations. … Read more
Google announced today that Google Apps is finally out of beta. “Yes, really.” “Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta. ‘Beta’ will be removed from the product logos today, but we’ll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not … Read more
Man – this weekend, I have to say, has been pretty fantastic. Aside from being notably unencumbered by technology, it also featured a very good friend of mine, Theresa. She’s my current romantic interest, and that’s putting it kind of mildly. She was my date for my Mom’s wedding, and her parents came up to … Read more
I have a technician scheduled for Friday morning who should hopefully be end-of-the-line for my DSL struggles, for now. A new modem arrived day before yesterday and I got it hooked up after work promptly. I logged in, set it up, and configured my wireless. I checked the status page, and the SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) … Read more
Eating at Cheddar’s Originally uploaded by David Myers I’m actually blogging this from Flickr right now, but wanted to let everyone know that Flickr has a great service called Flickr2Twitter. It lets you tweet your Flickr photos from both Flickr’s website or mobile using a specially formulated email address. To activate it, under Account Settings, … Read more