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Suggested reading this week

I’ve been real busy lately, but I came across several blogs and articles this week that I’d like to share, Andrew Hay style. =)
CEO Crime & Punishment — Ben Horowitz, CEO of Opsware Inc., shares his thoughts on what entices executives to commit white collar crime. Is it for money? Or is there some other […]

Dell + Google Toolbar… profit??!?!

Andrew Hay writes:
Dell & Google Secretly Installing Software to Make Money Off Your Typos - Those….bastards….how is this business practice not illegal?
New Dell machines that include the Google toolbar as part of a marketing agreement also include a secret program that redirects non-url information typed into a browser window to a Dell-branded page filled with […]

Today’s Lucky Numbers are…

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

What happens when you wait until the last minute

People panic!
Last night, TurboTax was unavailable for people to file their taxes. The problems have been since resolved, but let it be a lesson to all of us that we cannot depend entirely on technology. Technology will eventually fail us, like it did so many people last night. Hopefully, those people have now learned that […]

Risk of Injury to a Minor == Stupid Law

I have been getting just as furious as paperghost lately over the whole Julie Amero case. By now you’ve all heard about it, a substitute teacher was surfing the internet and then bombarded with porn advertisements she couldn’t get away. People debate her initial reactors and the woulda/coulda/shoulda’s. I think she just paniced and didn’t […]