Category: Computers / Internet

Spotify, When I Say NO, I Mean NO!

Apparently, when you tell Spotify NOT to connect to your facebook account, they do anyway. I received an email from Spotify this morning encouraging me to, “Start enjoying Spotify now.” Since I did not finish the sign up process, I was a little surprised to be getting any more email from them. I tried logging [...]

Spotify wants your facebook account

IĀ receivedĀ an invite to Spotify a couple of months ago, but did not have the time to sign up until yesterday. I guess my timing was a little poor as yesterday Spotify changed their registration process and it now requires that you register using your facebook account. I didn’t like that too much, but I decided [...]

A Story of Password Woe to Scare You Straight

Nick Denton has a blogging empire named Gawker which includes eight successful blogs including one of the most popular tech blogs. He’s been involved in ‘journalism’ and technology for a long time. One would imagine someone in his position and with his background would take online user names and passwords very seriously as, for him, [...]

Ray Ozzie's Incomprehensible Letter to the World, Translated!

Ray is retiring, he has a few thousands thoughts on the matter. Written in completely impenetrable corporate-speak. I’ve taken one for the team, suffered through every word, and wrung out the secret code hidden within: Things change. We don’t really understand the cloud, but we keep throwing money at it. We haven’t kept up with [...]

Moral Equivalence

If you found a wallet in a bar, what would you do? Would you take it home? Would you hold onto it for three weeks without making any real effort to find the owner and then would you sell it to a blog for $5,000? Oh, you would, well then you are a criminal. There [...]

Rhino 3D

I just installed Rhino again on my fresh install of WinXP. I had forgotten how much I love that program. For those that do not know, it is a CAD program that uses NURBS to create complex surfaces. Simply put, it makes curvy stuff. It is very easy to learn and use, but it is [...]