Pun Intended Consequences

This is kind of a strange post. The thing is, I see or experience strange coincidences in my life often enough that I've given a name to...

OK, so suddenly I find myself with the urge to blog a bit about my changing computing habits. If reading techie stuff makes you want to tear...

If you look at your car's digital clock, microwave display, laptop computer's indicator lights, or your keyboard's Num Lock/Caps...

Here's an economist's take on Microsoft's new file formats. From the article: `While Microsoft could have kept the traditional ...

I'm sorry but this stuff is just too funny not to share with y'all non-Slashdotters. The post (Your Ex-CoWorkers Will Kill Facebook...

My discerning readers may have noticed by now that I'm not much for blogging about personal stuff that's been going on in my life. O...

I was on ouou.com, watching some video when suddenly Windows faltered and crashed. I briefly saw a blue screen detailing some error and then...

Very impressive movie. I could have sworn in some scenes that the actors were really there, but apparently it's an animated movie, so th...

These articles raise some interesting questions about society's tendency to see all men as potential child molesters: Are We Teaching Ou...

Aside from the default Firefox theme, there aren't any really cool themes that I've found -- but I do like a couple of themes which ...

Yup, it's actually possible to send and receive my.monash (or any other uni/workplace) email from your beloved Gmail account. Here's...

For the past few days I've been installing EndNote, the bibliographic referencing software, on every computer I've been able to, and...

I am sorry to learn about the losses suffered by the community of Virginia Tech. My first reaction is to blame America's gun culture. Af...

Rocky Balboa is back to his roots in this last movie. The boxing champion of Philadelphia is back in the old neighborhood, looking for meani...

Just ask Malaysian ladies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4802796.stm .

Sometimes when I'm teaching kids at my mom's tutorial, I get this feeling that teaching a kid something is a lot like programming a ...

And it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I finally dove into the Ecma C# language specification document, for lack of any better ...

For when I get around to installing it: (This is from the Slashdot article Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 hours .) Annoyance...

Here's something I've been meaning to talk about. Came across this comment in an MSDN blog yesterday. The blogger, Rick Schaut, is ...

OK, I know I said I'd upgrade to IE7 later, but I seriously couldn't resist the temptation -- especially since I have nothing to los...