As my dearest friends know, I once existed as a broadcast monkey prior to my life as a code monkey. It gives me great joy that it's finally at least somewhat practical to deliver short-form high definition video via the Internet, even if it is only a couple of minutes at a time. That said, the best bang...

My router at home isn't serving IP addresses to my machine anymore. So, rather than figure out what is wrong, or buying a new one (the simple things), I found this helpful gem. It's a way to set the IP config of your computer from a batch file. Eric Burcham's IP Configuration Batch File

It seems like a good post from the folks at Twitter has been interpreted by Scoble as being all about him . I gotta say, I'm just not seeing it. I'm also not sure why Scoble is throwing such a public tantrum about Twitter's down time. Regardless of what you think about it all, there's a strangely familiar...

Robert Scoble annoys me. I used to enjoy reading his blog, but it has gone to a point where he really thinks he has all the answers and is the smartest blogger on the Net, masked thinly by the occasional self-deprecating comment or whatever. But now he got booted off of Facebook because he was using...

I noticed the PC World editorial proclaiming that Apple was the new Microsoft (via this blog ), and I swear the mainstream press will print anything these days. I've gone on record time and time again about how much I care about, and love using, Microsoft's development products. I can indirectly credit...

Leave it to the cats at Facebook to deliver a very nice iPhone experience . Given the site's media-centric approach of photos and other nonsense, it's a great fit to the iPhone, which is all about photos and other nonsense! You login and get the feed just as you would normally. I see that Skydiving Jeff...

I was listening to This Week In Tech this morning, as they were talking about various services and Web sites they use. It occurred to me that, while many of these sites are very fascinating, most are me-too at best, or worthless at worst. Certainly you're familiar with Wayne Gretzky once saying that...

Apple fan or not, people seem to be annoyed that Apple is not opening up the iPhone for application support on the device itself. It's not just the Windows developers who are annoyed, it's the faithful Apple developers too. But why? This is the point we've been trying to get to for years! When I worked...

There were another two entries on News.com today about Twitter, and I keep asking, who cares? If you're not familiar with the service, it's like short attention span blogging that can blast everyone with text messages with whatever you post. You can do RSS or view on the Web as well. But honestly, so...

I was refactoring some of my moderation logging stuff on the forthcoming v8 , and was curious to see how some other forums do it. I had not looked at vBulletin in a very long time, and was excited to see that they have a demo system that launches a completely new instance of the app with a fresh database...