A Peculiar Blog

I just saw an article about HP’s newest toy… would you believe .. a *BILLION* color display? Well, that’s what they’ve come up with. Not only that, but it’s a LCD technology to boot. What I can’t help wondering is just how much ram do you need to work with a billion [...]

What do you do when you’re toiling away at the project of the moment and all of a sudden your monitor goes dark? There’s no clicking sounds, not a whiff of smoke or a flicker of the lights. The computer itself continues merrily along, waiting for your next input or instruction. Checking [...]

Christians who see this story about a new Digital Tattoo technology are very likely to wonder if this has anything to do with “The Mark” referred to in Revelation 13.
I don’t think that it is because they’re talking about installing it in your arm, not the forehead or right hand. Although if you add [...]

Theres a story on SeatlePI.com about an issue with cell phones that’s going to get bigger before it gets solved.
Basically it’s about cell phone networks releasing information to police without a warrant. Specifically location information. All that the police need do is say that it’s a life or death situation and they’re handing [...]

Ever get the admonition from your parents that “Money doesn’t grow on trees” or variations of it such as “[mistreated, expensive, and/or hard to find item] doesn’t grow on trees”? I’m reminded of that now as our household finds itself in need of a laptop or three to supplement our desktop systems with the [...]

There’s a form of “spring cleaning” that are actually a good idea to do on a monthly basis if you can. Of course, there’s always stuff that gets in the way of doing things like this so it ends up being an annual or semi-annual event.
Cleaning out the computer case. This applies especially [...]

Remember the big flap that’s been made about the National ID card that the government has been trying to foist off on us, requiring states to become “Real ID compliant”? This is the same “Real ID” that several states have refused to be part of. Well, if H.R. 5405 passes then it’s [...]

We can now raise a cheer for a group of a group of bright people in the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, Germany along with colleagues from the University of Virginia have succeeded in cracking the encryption scheme used on the Mifare Classic RFID chip sold by NXP.
It turns out that the proprietary encryption scheme [...]

“Sneaker-net” is a term from back a few years when files would be moved from one computer to another by carrying ‘em around on 5 1/4 inch floppies. Back in those days Internet connections weren’t very common. Nor were local networks. If you were online those days it was by way of [...]

I saw an item on slashdot a few days ago that’s been gnawing at me for a while now. It involves a story about somebody referred to as “Australia’s Geekiest Man” and the fact that in his effort to create a software controlled environemnt that he’s had an RFID tag implanted in his arm.
Currently [...]