Always, the beauty of the Sun
Technology has brought us many things, improving and extending our lives in countless ways. It brings us closer to the atoms and closer to the stars. My life in particular is made more beautiful though images of our star. The Sun is the only object in the sky that can be deservingly designated benefactor to all. Go to the SOHO website to see spectacular images you just will not see anywhere else. You can even find daily snaps of sunspots stretching back for the last couple of years (a favorite of mine).

Maybe we should celebrate El Sol day on June 25th as a warm and friendly counterpoint to our end of year cold weather holiday shenanigans. No sacrifices required!


The first sunspot of the year is a figure eight! Checkout for a closeup.
- posted Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:15 PM by Steve

 
Will DRM eat your baby?
Cory Doctorow makes a solid point about DRM and your consumer electronic devices in this article posted on BoingBoing.

The media device you buy today will not be the same device you have next year. Companies like Microsoft and Apple, eager to make headway in the digital media market, cave to content producers, and regularly remove features from products at their insistence. EULAs grant these vendors broad powers to make those modifications without the need for further consent from the devices owner. Do you *really* own your media device or computer? You own the hardware, but the software that makes those devices do useful things isn't yours.

Make it your software!
Don't like what your hearing? Install Linux on your computer (try fedora or ubuntu), or Linux for your iPod.
- posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 5:54 PM by Steve