March, 2006 | Greg Nilsen

What's Your Excuse?

Mar

2006

TIME magazine has recently published an article entitled The Myth About Girls Going Wild, which addresses how a growing number of women are using alcohol as an excuse to do the crazy things they know they wouldn't do otherwise. While it's an interesting insight into a growing problem, it is still a little off focus. ...

When Technology And Ignorance Collide

Mar

2006

If you consider yourself a 'computer geek', you need to read this exchange between a City Manager in Oklahoma and the developer of a linux distribution. You can't make this stuff up if you tried.

Ballmer To Children:

Mar

2006

Well, close enough. In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated that he doesn't allow his children to use Google or iPods. Do you have an iPod? No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children–in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've ...

The Jeopardy Test And A Lesson In Scalability

Mar

2006

I know they teach this in Computer Science classes, because I was there, but it still seems like no one pays attention… Last night I sat down at my computer at 7:55pm to take the Jeopardy online screening test for the east coast, which was scheduled to begin at 8:03pm. I logged in, a window ...

Pot Pourri

Mar

2006

Today just seems like a slow day, so maybe I'll try to spice it up by hitting on a few different items… Baseball's almost back, and I'm finally looking forward to the season. A few weeks ago, I wasn't real high on the current Red Sox team, but I'm getting there now. I've gotten my ...

Afghan Hypocracy

Mar

2006

In what may play out as one of the most important religious stories of the year, if not socially relevant in general, is the story of Abdul Rahman. Rahman, a former Muslim who converted to Christianity, was arrested and faced the death penalty for posession of a Bible. Afghanistan, whose laws are tightly wound with ...

Hazy Vista?

Mar

2006

Latest reports from Slashdot are saying that Microsoft is currently scrambling to get as much as 60% of the code rewritten for the upcoming OS Windows Vista. This will likely push the release of Vista from late 2006 to early 2007. I know I've seen some good demos of many of the features that are ...

My Sweet Sixteen

Mar

2006

Boy, what a lousy way to end a thrilling weekend. Being a UConn fan, I was crushed by the result of the Huskies-Patriots game. It's not so much the outcome of the game, but how it transpired. The Huskies had every chance to win the game, but just never showed the desire that they wanted ...

Why I Hate Marketing: Reason Number 35,291

Mar

2006

Have you noticed that the voices rambling on and on in the background of your commercials have begun to sound more familiar? This is something I had noticed myself in the past year, but didn't really think anything of it. Probably because it didn't make much of a difference to me. However, CNN.com had a ...

C'mon Down To 'South Park'…

Mar

2006

Unless you've been living under a rock, then you've probably heard about all the commotion surrounding the crudely-animated South Park premier. In the premier, long-running character 'Chef' was turned into a pedophile and killed off after the voice of Chef, Isaac Hayes, quit the show a week before the premier over "negative portrayal of (his) ...