This has apparently been around for quite a while now (I'm a bit behind the times, ok?), but The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is hilariously funny. Check it out.
Apparently the author of the blog is going to reveal himself in the next week or two.
Chad Orzel has a nice post that pretty much sums up my feelings on Richard Dawkins. Maybe some day I'll actually read The God Delusion, but having heard summaries of his arguments, it sounds like he says nothing new and that he severely misrepresents the nature of science.
Man, I can't stand talking to first-level support anymore. I just got off the phone with someone at AT&T Yahoo! tech support because I was experiencing 400-500ms ping times. I had very good circumstantial evidence that they needed to restart a router. What does the first-level techie want me to do? Restart my computer. The problem has nothing to do with my computer!! Then she reads me something about my provisioned connection speed. I told her that she didn't understand the difference between throughput and latency if she was focusing on my connection speed.
While on the phone I fixed my own problem by forcing my DSL modem to get a new IP address. Which just confirmed what I've always known: calling tech support is a waste of my time.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling which toughens the standards to grant a patent for inventions which combine two existing technologies (nytimes coverage here). All I can say is: "it's about time"; this change is long overdue.
It will be interesting to see what effect this will have on Verizon v. Vonage (Verizon's patent has ridiculously broad scope, imo).
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