Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
The Tennessee Super DMCA is back for the 2004 legislative session. The House version, HB 3391,was passed on February 10. Senate Bill 3101 is currently in committee. While not as vicious as last year’s version, this bill still makes it questionable, if not illegal, to use things like firewall hardware and software and virtual private networking.…
I recently decided I’d had enough spam when the spam outnumbered the real email by 10 to 1. I guess that proves that I’ve had my email addresses too long and they’ve ended up on everybody’s lists. Even with it’s flaws I still use Outlook Express.…
I initially thought that Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” was going to be full-text searchable. Well, not exactly. You can search for words but the results are displayed as images of the page the text is on. This is mainly for copyright reasons and I guess it makes sense.…
The University of Texas at Austin now has their Gutenberg Bible online. It’s not the first one to go online, but the more copies that go digital, the less the originals get used. More people can use the digital copies, so the work is more widely distributed and the original is preserved.…
Added March 12, 2026: Wow, ZoneAlarm Pro still exists.
I just got ZoneAlarm Pro for my Windows machine, not that I really needed it, I’m already behind basic hardware firewall so not a whole lot gets through anyway, but ZA Pro has some good ad and pop-up blocking features and email protection.…
Marc Andreessen was quoted Tuesday as saying “There hasn’t been any innovation on the browser in the last five years. And five years from now there won’t be any changes.”
I think that estimate is a bit early but there is little doubt that web browsers are stagnant.…
Proving that information technology is everywhere, it was announced today that the NASCAR Winston Cup Series will be called the Nextel Cup Series. That’s quite a big jump to go from a tobacco company to a wireless company. Maybe it will mean free wireless networking and/or cell phones at the tracks.…
I’ve bought quite a bit of stuff from the Apple/iTunes including Elvis, U2, and the Clash. I have to say I like purchasing the music better than using P2P software, because you know what you are getting and you support the artist.…
Added March 12, 2026: Now Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers are king of the hill, at least by market share.
While Internet Explorer on the Mac is dead, there are plenty of other options. Firefox, Gecko based browsers and Safari can pick up the web browsing torch.…