A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I just saw a story on slashdot about Apple computer’s ongoing copyright feud with Pystar.
It seems that now apple is arguing that why Pystar turns on a computer before they ship it (you know, to make sure it’s working right) that they’re violating copyright because turning the machine on makes a copy of [...]

Over the last couple of years I’ve managed to learn quite a bit about making videos and how to do a considerable variety of special visual effects. I think that all things considered (most notable of which is my almost eternally empty wallet), I have been able to make considerable progress from where I [...]

Texas Instruments (TI) calculators have for a long time been a subject of hobbyist interest. In particular is the TI-83. However TI has long been known to be very uncooperative to say the least. Recently news came out that somebody has managed to crack the RSA signing key for the programmable calculator’s [...]

I’ve talked about Freenet here occasionally and while I think it’s easy enough to understand I still get occasional questions about just exactly what it is. That, combined with the recent fork of Freenet Classic OpenNet from the original Freenet 0.5 project has prompted me to create this video that gives a basic overview [...]

I was browsing through the search logs this morning and noticed that there were several searches with the query: “how to change home page on firefox” , “change firefox homepage” and a few others related so I thought I’d write up a quickie tutorial showing how to do it.
It’s actually a simple task. First [...]