I pay $10/month in order to have a static IP address for my Sprint DSL. The idea behind this is that I can host servers here at home, and the address will be constant, such that people going to websites (like this one, or, say, vafamilyvalues.org, my new site) will always be able to get …
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Apple nails you on the fine print.
Among many other things that Apple announced today is the iPod Shuffle, a little solid-state iPod that goes for $99. They advertise that it’s “smaller than a pack of gum.” Note, however, that there’s a footnote: Hm. So there’s a catch. Bastards. Always nailing their customers with the fine print.
Apple announces the Mac Mini.
Oh. Damn. That’s hot. The Mac Mini. 2″ high. 6.5″ square. Ethernet, modem, VGA, USB, Firewire, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 1.25GHz. 2.9lbs. $499.
Daily Kos’d.
I made the front page of Daily Kos. (That’s my uncredited “lengthy and illuminative comment.”) So begins the national discussion of Virginia Democrats and the ’05 race.
Internet retail tax: fine idea, tough to implement.
I’ve long been opposed to a retail tax on purchases made on-line. It’s not that I don’t think it makes good fiscal sense — it does. In the early days of e-tailing — the late 90s through perhaps 2001 — retail tax might have killed things, because of the cost of shipping. It was thought …
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Tim Kaine’s got a website.
Lt. Governor Tim Kaine finally has a website for his campaign for governor — it just went live today. It’s not much to look at, but it’s something. It’s only six pages, and that’s generously counting the contact page and blank press page. Bafflingly, there’s no blog (how 1998 of him), the code isn’t valid, …
Mac OS X Safari slowdown tip.
For the past month or two, Safari, the Mac OS X web browser, has been really slow on my desktop machine. I use a 1GHz G4 tower with 512MB of RAM, and there’s simply no reason why it should be slow. While using a webpage, the “spinning beachball” (like the hourglass on Windows) comes up …
Spammers found my new address.
Somehow, in the few short months that I’ve been using my new e-mail address, spammers have discovered it. At the same time that I changed the URL of this site from waldo.net to waldo.jaquith.org, I changed my e-mail address accordingly. I have jealously guarded my new address, hoping to keep the spammers at bay, but …
Newspapers are on the way out.
Wired‘s Adam Penenberg‘s Media Hack column this week is about the future of print media and electronic media, and how the rise of the latter seems to correlate with the decline of the former. My favorite bit is the results of the Washington Post‘s study regarding the decline in their subscriber base: it’s because younger …
Type, moved.
I switched blogging software this evening, from Movable Type to WordPress. I’ve been using Movable Type for a year and a half now, after moving up from some software that I’d assembled on my own. I’ve quite liked it, and I don’t have any complaints, but I wanted some more flexibility. The biggest difference between …