BRUCEB NEWS
The Revenge Of The Ginger Man
The Olympia Press was a notorious Parisian publishing house that used a legal loophole to mass-produce cheap, pseudonymous English erotica for tourists in the 1950s. Olympia Press was owned by Maurice Girodias, a chaotic businessman who had an eye for avant-garde…
WHY DSL STILL SUCKS
DSL is in terrible shape. Many people have persistent problems – lines disconnect or go down, tech support is poor or nonexistent, orders are handled slowly. Here’s a…
HOME ENTERTAINMENT HUBS
The home entertainment devices that will be hot next Christmas are taking shape. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, a new company demonstrated the MoxiMedia Center, which…
WALLACE AND GROMIT COMING TO THE WEB
Twelve one-minute films featuring Wallace and Gromit will be available for download this autumn, according to this article. This is the first new Wallace and Gromit material…
FLAT PANEL MONITOR PRICES ON THE RISE
According to this article, prices for flat panel LCD monitors were in free fall last year because of an oversupply of glass. The factories have caught up, demand is skyrocketing…
ONLINE SHOPPING
I went shopping for a new monitor tonight and wound up buying it from an unexpected source. After checking Amazon, Buy.com, CDW, Microwarehouse, Insight, and a few others, I…
APPLE’S NEW IMAC
Look, I’ve got nothing against Apple, really. I think it would be fine if they did some cool things. But I can’t get around it – the new iMac is ugly as sin….
DAVE BARRY DOES WINDOWS
In case you missed it, here’s Dave Barry’s column today about life with Windows. “I bring this all up because now Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP,…
AOL BLOCKS HARVARD E-MAILS
The volume of junk mail has increased in the last few months, and people ask me all the time why it can’t just be blocked. Implementing a junk mail filter is a difficult…
WINDOWS XP SECURITY HOLE MISREPRESENTED
The press has done a terrible job reporting on the Windows XP security vulnerability that turned up a few days ago. It was widely reported that any hacker with a modem could sit…
MUSICCITY STILL IN BUSINESS
MusicCity.com is under attack from the copyright police, and a court in the Netherlands ordered it to halt file swapping a couple of weeks ago. It’s holding steady so far,…
HP PHOTOSMART 100
If you’ve got a digital camera, I’ve got a great accessory for you. This is my favorite Christmas present. The Hewlett Packard Photosmart 100 printer does only one…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
To my clients, my friends, and all who stop by: my warmest wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy new year! I hope you find a few high-tech toys in your stocking in the morning…
COPYRIGHT ANALYSIS
A fascinating article by Mike Godwin, attorney and fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. His argument is that the real war is not between the copyright holders and…
MOVIE REVIEWS
If you’re wondering whether Roger Ebert’s tepid review of Lord Of The Rings is typical (it’s not), or if everybody agrees that The Majestic is irredeemably…
WINDOWS SECURITY UPDATE
Somebody discovered a way to sneak remotely into Windows computers under some circumstances (only in the laboratory so far, but some smart person will figure it out in the real…