Siliconchef by Brian Richardson
From the monthly archives: December 2007
So let me get this straight …
You dress up in a weird suit, put on a fake beard, talk in a funny voice and pretend to be someone else in a mall in December. You’re a normal part of the holiday season. This is accepted behavior. People are paid for this on a regular [...]
Engadget is running this story where Microsoft reports that the counterfeit rate of Vista is half that of Windows XP. They interpret it as a success for their authorization process preventing piracy. I read it as Microsoft making an OS so bad nobody wants to steal it.
The magic of data [...]
Good thing we didn’t plan to record the podcast last night, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to record the podcast thanks to the new AT&T. An attempt to purge some of the old BellSouth servers from their system caused a nine state outage that lasted over four hours. Even their [...]
