For the first time since Internet Explorer overran Netscape, IE’s market share is below 90%.

A Seattle man performing relief work in Thailand found a digital camera washed up on shore. The camera was destroyed, but the memory card was still readable. On the card was found the final pictures of a Vancouver couple vacationing in Thailand when the Tsunami hit. Read the rest of this entry »

No lie, play this game.

If you’re an open source developer, GoDaddy.com is offering a free SSL certificate.

If you have any doubt to the power of CSS, try this maze written entirely in CSS. No javascript.

A study from the Better Business Bureau found that only 11% of identity theft involves online methods. Half of, just over 5% of the total, online identity theft comes from spyware installed on users machines. As comparison, greater than 30% comes as a result of a lost purse or wallet. Second and third on the list are friends / relatives and employees with access to personal information.

Most interesting (to me at least) is that customers who use online banking tend to notice fraudulent more quickly. Online users average $551 lost compared to $4,543 lost by those who found the fraud on paper statements.

To prove that nobody read the end user license agreements when installing software, PC-Pitstop added a clause in to theirs promising “consideration” to the first person who emailed the company. Four months and 3,000 download later, someone finally did. He received a $1,000 check for his trouble.

Arash Sigarchi, a 28-year-old journalist, was sentenced by Iranian courts to 14 years in prison. His ‘crimes’ are listed in a 12 page document, and the crimes range from espionage to insulting the country’s leaders. It appears that the conviction stems from a blog Sigarchi was publishing that was critical of arrests of journalists by the Iranians.

If you’re up for a little light reading on computer security, here’s 69 pages listing the top 10 vulnerabilities affecting Unix / Linux based servers and the top 10 for Windows servers.

What would you do if you came home tonight and your garage door wouldn’t open? Probably what most people do: cuss at it and then go inside for some fresh batteries. But, what if that didn’t work. What if all of a sudden the frequency your trusty opener has been using was claimed by someone else. If you live in Colorado, it may happen soon. It’s already happened to Florida and Pennsylvania residents. Read the rest of this entry »