Those who have an interest in RFID (Radio Frequency ID) technology may be interested to note that the newly-established standards organization, EPC Global, has appointed (or is that anointed) Verisign to run their registry. EPC Global was established to take over for the Auto-ID lab, which was founded by MIT …

It appears that a musical that started its life as a movie will be returning to the silver screen once again. An article in the New York Times indicates that The Producers will return as a new film to begin shooting in 2005, staring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, who …

An article in the New York Times this morning points to an article from Science that describes research done by Cornell University indicating that the levels of PCBs in the two samples of salmon differed significantly. However, despite this, the levels are still 50 times less than the amount approved …

According to an article from CNet, Morgan Freeman and his production company are planning to release a film simultaneously on the Internet and in theaters later this year. No word on what kind of DRM (Digital Rights Management) will be used, but it will be interesting to watch.

If anyone is thinking that Washington doesn't take the whole radioactivity issue seriously, they should check out this article from the Washington Post. It appears that a lawyer in DC had gone in for a stress test and his doctor had given him a radioactive dye. Turns out that the …

I'm going to be putting the MacWorld Keynote up on the big screen on Tuesday at noon. Send me an email if you want to come. Most likely, it'll be streamed in via QuickTime.

There was a celebration and no doubt a huge sigh of relief this morning when the first pictures came in from the Mars rover, Spirit. The craft, about the size of a golf cart, will spend its life roaming the red planet, grinding up rock samples and analyzing their contents …

Sick of hearing the accolades for Apple in 2003? Don't read this article from InfoWorld. Tom Yager gives the Apple G5, Panther, and Panther Server scores of 8.8, 9.2 and 9.3 respectively. For the G5, he likes the memory bandwidth and processing power, noting that for his …

And in the "I thought of that" category, we have the new product Intelliscanner Collector from Intelli Solutions. Many of you know that I've been keeping a large DVD collection (which replaced my large LD collection) for years and have a database that contains all of the information about my …

Many of you know that I don't usually put personal information up on this site. However, I have made the occasional exception for pictures of particularly good trips and so forth. Here is another such exception. On Christmas night, in front of the lit tree and the crackling fireplace, Carol …

An article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describes the ordeal of a college student and her fish trying to get home for the holidays. Suffice it to say that the TSA wasn't particularly helpful or supportive and the fish's life was at stake.

Scaled Composites announced on the 17th of December (thanks, Amanda, for pointing this out to me) that they had broken the sound barrier in SpaceShipOne, the craft they are building to compete for the XPrize.

OK, it was the parents of the two year old, but still, how ridiculous can you get? According to this story on CNN, a Stamford, CT mother has told the city she wants to be compensated because her two year old ran head-long into a railing that was painted green …

Just in case those of you in the DC area missed the rain earlier this year, the Washington Post has an article about precipitation records in the DC area. Dulles and Baltimore have already had their records fall, and National is a half-inch from dropping. So far this year, DCA …

There's an interesting article in Fast Company about Apple, Steve Jobs, and innovation. The gist of it is that "if Apple is so innovative, then why are they so damned small." The author, Carleen Hawn, makes some interesting points, but seems to have missed a particularly large one in my …

To all of you out there who read these pages, a heartfelt Merry Christmas and best wishes for a New Year full of love, joy, laughter, and peace!

SCO, the company that the rest of the UNIX community loves to hate, fired their latest salvo in the anti-Linux wars, claiming that SCO owns the copyright on 65 system include files (see the following letter supposedly from SCO to "violators"). In response, Linus has responded that he remembers vividly …

An article from the New York Times describes South Carolina (current home to my parents) as a key battleground state in the Democratic Primary. It looks as if many of the candidates see SC as the place to determine whether Howard Dean can hold his own in the South and …

Voting for the BAFTA awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has been stopped due to problems with the ballots, reports The Scotsman. The problems include missing actors and actresses, films in the wrong categories, and incorrect sex for some foreign actors and actresses. The BAFTA awards are considered …

For those who like Python and AppleScript, AppScripting is now available which allows the use of normal Python mechanisms to control AppleScript.