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Since I’ve made this “link dictionary” for myself, I’ve found that digg.com is a much easier way to preserve articles that I find interesting. Also, slashdot articles seem a lot less intriguing after seeing the quality and volume of available stories. The only thing that I fear about digg is how they’re keeping the site updated and feature-rich. For instance, digg’s search absolutely stinks, and does not yet support searching within what you’ve dugg (which would be a requirement for a replacement of this in-house link accumulation blog). Hopefully that’ll change.

Not much has happened since I’ve last posted. I’m currently learning the .NET languages in hopes of being able to use that knowledge for cross-platform Mono/C# programming. Until next time, have a great time!

Found The Unofficial Apple Weblog a few days ago… forgot how. It’s a very interesting site.

Slashdot

• AMD has been granted a non-shred request for documents of specified third-parties in an effort to preserve information about their case against Intel.
• Forbes reports that Dell and Napster have joined forces to allow college students to download music. Sounds pretty darn tricky to me, as more than 75% of the college market is dominated by Dell (with respect to what I see on people’s desks).
• In the midst of Microsoft’s negotiations with Claria, Microsoft AntiSpyware now sets Claria products to “ignore”. What the hell are they thinking?
• The Chicago Sun-Times wrote an article about non-technicial users’ responces to spyware problems. Spyware is probably the only thing that technical AND non-technical users agree on - that they must go - yet this subject has seen the slowest adoption of corporate attitude compared to issues that matter less.

Slashdot recently had an Ask Slashdot question about where to find deals online.

So the list is here:

• 100 Big Coupons
• Ben’s Bargains
• HeadLine Deals
• Hot Deals Club
• SlickDeals
• Techbargains

Some forum boards:

• HardForum Deals
• AnandTech Hot Deals
• FatWallet Hot-Deals Forum

Some preferred resellers that people go to without even looking twice:

• ChiefValue
• Directron
• eBuyer
• eWiz
• Monarch Computer
• Newegg
• ZipZoomFly

Finally, use Reseller Ratings to find out if a company that is offering a deal is good.

The Heller Group of Harvard University has a very nice, but simple, looking site. Use as inspiration at some later time.

The BCC is reporting that the moon is currently appearing larger than it usually is, re-inviting theories about why the Moon appears to be so.

Adopt a Chinese Blog is a project I’d definitely look into later when I have the time.

Decided to look for a game that was like Freelancer, so I searched Google for “if you liked freelancer” and got a few things back.

• X2: The Threat
• Privateer, its remake.
• Eve, but you have to pay.
• Star Control 2, its remake.
• Outpost 2
• X-tension
• Nexus: the Jupiter Incident
• Moon Tycoon
• Master of Orion 2, and some of 3
• Galactic Civilizations
• Battlecruiser - Millennium Gold Edition
• Space Colony
• Sid Meir’s Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire Expansion
• Empirium Galactica
• Space Colony

Hoping to find more suggestions.

Slashdot

• U-Power announced Pentium M upgrade for Mac G4 Cubes

Flexbeta

• Video of a Dell laptop running MacOS 10.4.1
• Inq. reports MSI’s Dual 6800 Ultra prototype with 2GB of onboard VRAM
• Xen getting multi-processor support
  • IBM continues on with 11 new members joining onto the PowerPC Consortium, after Apple dumps PPC
• Apple may use TPM to ensure the MacOS only boots on Mactels

Hello!

You’ve stumbled on then blog some, my online home for snipplets, rants, interesting tidbits, and my life’s changelog. Hopefully I’ll have enough time to make this into a worthwhile and useful endeavor. Enjoy!