Lights That Blink

Lots of links and videos about the favorite toy of over-eager law enforcement and security personnel.

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This blog entry from Bring It On! hits the nail on the head.
Here’s a thought. If OpenOffice.org wants me to quit spending thousands of dollars on a commercial product, they have to compete on more than just price. Price isn’t the deciding factor in which suite I buy.  Quality and enhanced productivity are. Even if […]

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The much awaited launch of Google’s Powerpoint competitor is here.
Earlier this year in April, Google had announced plans to add a new, PowerPoint-like presentation application to its Web-based Docs suite.
Reportedly, starting today, the application named ‘Google presentation’ has been added to Google Docs. Using this application, users can create Web-based presentations, as well as view […]

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Count me among the underwhelmed at this announcement.
IBM has joined the growing group of tech companies punting alternatives to Microsoft’s omnipresent Office suite.
Its new Lotus Symphony package, which launched yesterday, includes word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs and is available free of charge to Windows and Linux users.
I mean…I’m sure that the IBM folks have […]

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They’ve setup a separate organization now to handle the email initiatives.
Today Mozilla is launching a new organization to develop Internet mail and communications software. It will use the open source email desktop client Thunderbird as a base - the product, code and brand. Technically this will be a Mozilla Foundation subsidiary - and it is […]

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Then I’m happily felonious.

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Sanity still rules some parts of the legal system. After losing that critical ruling in August, SCO has filed Chapter 11.
Hooray.
SCO Group, whose CEO tried to kill the Linux operating system, filed for bankruptcy Friday, a month after a court ruled it did not own the copyright to the Unix operating system.

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I don’t find stories like this suprising.  At all.
Our favorite local-blog-with-an-admitted-ax-to-grind, the Claremont Insider, digs into the city of Claremont’s website and strikes .pdf gold: “scanned-in bi-monthly pay stubs for all city employees going back several years.” The Insider writes up an amusing (and clearly fictional) account of how they obtained the stubs and posts […]

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I’ve tried switching away to Bloglines before. Newsgator, Feedness, FeedDemon, Google Reader, etc etc etc… I’m still waiting for Feedness to reopen (Walter! Vamos! ;))
Yet to me Bloglines has always been the quickest and most logical implementation of an RSS reader. Google Reader had a couple features that Bloglines didn’t, like […]

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Amazing app from the folks at reinvigorate a top-flight web analytics solution (and free!).

About Snoop
Running in the System Tray (Windows) / System Status Bar (Mac) you no longer need to endlessly flip between your work and stats. When something happens, Snoop will let you know. Snoop will run on any website or blogging platform […]

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