The ethics of “stealing” a WiFi connection from arstechnica.com: Interesting article about the question of morality when it comes to lifting a little wireless that technically doesn’t belong to you. They lay it out like this:
It’s time to put an end to this silliness. Using an open WiFi network is no more “stealing” than is [...]
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I’m Ready to Bail on Facebook - the New Face of Evil
I’ve been seeing a number of articles on this topic, but I felt this recent one summed it all up rather nicely. Coincidentally, I’ve been seeing more and more of the people I know to use Myspace jump over to Facebook. Social networking revolution [...]
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George Lucas on Star Wars at TVGuide.com
TVGuide.com has an interview with the maker himself, and he drops us some nice bits about what we can look forward to in regards to the future of Star Wars. Yes, my title was misleading for the uninitiated: No, there will not be Episodes VII, VIII, or IX. As [...]
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I came across an awesome video and article while scrolling through my never ending digg feed late last week entitled RSS in Plain English, over at CommonCraft.com. The author was dead on, knowing the pain of using, publishing and promoting the RSS technology; yet all the while knowing he had been preaching [...]
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How I Learned to Stop Being so Platform Specific and Accept the OS X. Right, so let’s just lay it down. I haven’t been a ‘mac guy’ for well over 10 years now. Most people know me as friend of Windows; but did you know- back in the day I knew mac all too well! [...]
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I was sold easily on RSS a long time ago. I would be, I’m a professional Web Developer. Many of you still aren’t convinced (even though you should be). Fair enough. It’s weird letters, and you do even weirder stuff with those letters: aggregate. And- holy crap, I just read your minds: “Mikull, you’re really [...]
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve noticed a whole new generation of video game consoles is on the market. Microsoft’s new XBOX360 landed earlier last year, followed by Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii. Joystiq asks Hard questions: Wii novelty and drought in effect? I’ll admit it, I’ve been tempted by the Wii [...]
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Since coming back from vacation, it’s turned out to be rough times for mikull.com. For my most geek readers and concerned friends, sit a spell and I’ll tell you a story. Several readers noted that mikull.com had some downtime while I was away, but by the time I actually logged in and checked everything out, [...]
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10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed - an article from earlier this summer I had meant to talk about some time ago. Personally, I’m a bit concerned about the new formats coming down the tube- mainly because I had way too good of a time with my movie collection. I still [...]
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