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It’s Patch Tuesday again, as I usually do, I reviewed the Window updates that had been pushed out before installing them. The first update in the list is a rather scary bug in the Windows TCP/IP stack, which could allow remote code execution.

The good news: Wireless home theaters are on the way. That bad news: They’ll be expensive.
The Open Relay Database has shut itself down
An ink-less pen?
The new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be coming at the end of February

The Wii launches in the UK at midnight tonight.

‘Most websites’ failing disabled is a BBC article that has some pretty scary statistics about accessibility on a wide range of sites. It should not be a surprise, there are relatively very few of us who make any effort to make our sites accessible to those with disabilities. The good news is that […]

That was quick, someone is already developing a Linux distribution for the Nintendo Wii. It sounds like it is based off of Gamecube Linux, which makes sense since much of the Wii’s technology is built off of the existing Gamecube tech. Should be interesting too see what happens with this.

According to a bunch of judges instant messaging is e-mail. That’s just plain stupid, it’s like saying a phone call is the same as sending a letter through the postal system. They are not the same. Generally speaking, you can communicate the same information by both means, but they are not the […]

The Wii less than a week away, Cnet has posted an interview with NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime, interesting and worth a watch.

Although I disagree with just about everything they stand for, Mother Jones magazine has a fairly interesting article about Google entitled Is Google Evil?. It’s worth a read just to hear about some of the often hypocritical things Google has been doing.
My answer to the question would be no, they are not evil. […]

“But for a truly secure Internet browser with more features, we still recommend Mozilla Firefox.” — C|net review of IE7

A new developer has picked up my favorite Quake 2 mod, Lazarus and started to work on this once abandoned project! For those of us who still map for Quake 2 this is wonderful news! Check it out at the new Lazarus website.