The Wash­ing­ton Post’s web­site has a fact check­ing blog for (most­ly) politi­cians. I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in the claims and state­ments made by 2008 pres­i­den­tial con­tenders. They’ve even includ­ed a handy “Pinoc­chio Test” scale for each entry. See also: FactCheck.org (not .com, Mr. VP) by the Annen­berg Pub­lic Pol­i­cy Center.

My grand­moth­er, Edith Deaver (or just grand­ma Deaver) died ear­ly this past Mon­day morn­ing. She had her three daugh­ters near­by and, after liv­ing for a long, healthy life, she suc­cumbed to those 93 years of time her on Earth. She will be missed, but no as much as she missed her hus­band Cicero, who had… Con­tin­ue read­ing Edith Deaver, 1914–2007

We have used Svea­soft­’s pub­lic release of their “Alche­my” router firmware for the past cou­ple of years. It has been very sta­ble and I’ve not real­ly found any rea­son to change it, despite much of the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Svea­soft­’s some­what shady busi­ness prac­tices. This week­end, I got an update that the more recent “Tal­is­man” ver­sion… Con­tin­ue read­ing Router Soft­ware Change

I don’t find myself agree­ing with John Gru­ber on a lot of things, but his lengthy post today on cell phone ring­tones is spot on. I’ve said so myself before here. His mon­ey quote: “And any busi­ness that hinges on your cus­tomers ‘not know­ing any bet­ter’ is a bad busi­ness.” Now, you know bet­ter, so… Con­tin­ue read­ing Don’t Get Scammed on Ringtones

Here’s the num­ber one rea­son why our house­hold is doing what we can to curb glob­al warm­ing (via Sher­il at The Inter­sec­tion on ScienceBlogs).

Hav­ing recent­ly lis­tened to the series on mul­ti-part authen­ti­ca­tion on the Secu­ri­ty Now! pod­cast (par­tic­u­lar­ly episodes 90 and 103), I got this (very inex­pen­sive) Pay­Pal brand­ed secu­ri­ty key to use with my eBay and Pay­Pal accounts. The device is actu­al­ly made by Verisign and they are cur­rent­ly test­ing it’s use with OpenID. I would­n’t have… Con­tin­ue read­ing This Is What Inter­net Secu­ri­ty Looks Like

Dur­ing Ange­la’s stay in the Labor and Deliv­ery ward at St. Mary’s, we were required to turn off our cell phones at the doors to that par­tic­u­lar area of the third floor. Based on my pre­vi­ous edu­ca­tion in that cell phones real­ly can inter­rupt air­plane nav­i­ga­tion equip­ment, I did so with­out com­plaint. Well, it appears… Con­tin­ue read­ing Yes, Cell Phones are Bad for Hos­pi­tal Equip­ment, Too