Adobe flaw puts PCs at risk | Tech News on ZDNet Geez, as if we don't have enough reason to hate the idiocy that is product activation, here's one more. Seems as if the product activation code for some recent Adobe products puts your computer at risk. Sigh. Product activation adds bloat. Product activation adds code that has nothing to do with users getting their work (or play) done.

Study: Outsourcing falls from favor | Tech News on ZDNet My first thought when I was reading these finding was: "Well, duh." And me without an MBA, one who works hard in the trenches and has done so for years (when given the opportunity to do so). A huge failure of outsourcing is that the people doing the work no longer care, care about the company, care about the product, care about

Karaoke Machines Recalled Over Lead Paint (Note: This link may add a pop-up or pop-under window if you don't have a pop-up blocker or a good browser, such as Firefox.) First of all, that these machines were sold at WalMart may just say it all.... That said, my first thought when reading this was that once recalled, these karaoke machines shouldn't be returned to their users. Allowing 220,000

Yahoo! News - NHL Cancels Season Over Labor Dispute Not that I'm as big a hockey fan as some frinds of mine. But this is just silly. And the parties in charge have been weaseling their way thourgh the past week, tantalizing us with the possibility that we might have some hockey this season. But the "deadlines" kept getting pushed back, and back, and back..... A pox on all their houses.

Quotable Campaign Being a homer (I still root for the Red Sox, for example), I favored John Kerry early on until a very intelligent former governor of a northern New England state entered the race (or am I confusing real life with "The West Wing." But Kerry has to have the quote of the campaign so far: "Like father, like son: One term and you're done."

Marriage "The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal." This quote from the Massachusetts Supreme Court--my home state--states simply a fundamental, indisputable American value.

I'm here! That's what I just want to scream. Scream! There's this little pragmatic voice inside of me, a consoling voice, that says I'm just one of at least 2.5 million more of us in the U.S. than there were 3 years ago. 2.5 million more unemployed. At least. How statistics lie. There's another little voice, one of perspective, that says others are in much worse predicaments. That families, too