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Or: How NOT to get your comment approved on my blog

As  planned to begin blogging, I allocated a number of hours per week to compose blog entries.  I was not naive; I knew there would be spam comments which would need to be weeded out.  But I thought that I could lift the manual approval after determining how much of an issue it really was, and simply delete spam and improper entries periodically, perhaps once per week.  Well, that is NOT going to happen anytime soon. Read the rest of this entry »

Never before has there been so many usable choices for the desktop: Windows 7 and MacOS Snow Leopard have recently been released; and desktop Linux, with Ubuntu at the forefront, is getting great reviews.  Windows is still entrenched with a huge lead.  MacOS is showing gains, while Linux is holding on to its share.  But perhaps it does not matter which OS prevails, just like Blu-ray’s victory turned hollow due to the lack of sales of its products.  And why is Blu-ray not taking off as expected? Read the rest of this entry »