This month’s Wired magazine includes a milestone I’m incredibly excited about: My first published print column! You can read Safe In Its Shell , my explorat...

I travel often, and until relatively recently I was doing over 100,000 miles a year. I’ve cut back a lot because my jobs have changed and I felt bad about my c...

Yesterday and early this morning, while talking about our impending move to a new apartment a few blocks away in a much bigger building (and no longer on the g...

I found some really interesting responses to the launch of Google Web History that are all well worth visiting. CNET’s Margaret Kane has a roundup of ne...

Features that didn’t make the cut for Windows Vista. For those of you who already think I’m too much of a Microsoft fanboy, check out the list. My favorite i...

Today’s most interesting mailing list posting : Uninstall Greasemonkey altogether. At this point, I don’t trust having it on my computer at all. I would t...

Oh, and all you alpha testers, you can just get in with the user/password beta1/simple which should be easier to type....

One of the things that troubles me about my daily routine is that we seem to have devoted a disproportionate amount of our culture’s scientific resources to th...

This is stupid. A while back, it was discovered that the U.S. government’s registration site for .mil domain names was wide open , making it possible for anyo...

Since I work at a newspaper, I try to scan the headlines from time to time to find stories that are newsworthy enough for us to link to. Every once in a while,...

Post-Hack Update Blogger’s completely back up , including bStats and the API. It seems (again, I don’t work for Pyra, but I’ve had information confirmed by...

Super geekiness alert: Would some kind hacker please make Apache fill the Entity Tag header with a server-generated PNG thumbnail of the page. And fill the c...

I am somewhat confused, as I try very hard not to keep up with the news these days, but if I understand correctly, our allegedly conservative chief executive i...

There’s still so much more that I can’t deal with… I just came back in from outside, and I popped up the window with my webcam to check if it works now. And I...

And, did you know that my apartment building changed the hours of operation for the laundry room from, well, all the damn time, to a miserly 9a to 11p schedule...

As a follow-up on yesterday’s tool for Outlook 2002’s Attachment security settings , you can also check out the official Microsoft tool for making these cha...

I am the only person who likes Microsoft Outlook. That is, until recently. They added a stupid, "save me from myself" security fix to it that made...

On the way to an interview today, a group of young girls across from me on the subway were talking about this school bomb threat . The remarkable thing about...

I’m not surprised they say they’ve found security holes in Windows Media Player skins . I did one of the first skins Microsoft commissioned for Player 7, and...

I was just poking around VeriSign’s site , even thought I hate the company, because I was thinking about digital signatures today. Why isn’t there any cheap o...

Hadn’t heard about this anywhere else, but the Windows Whistler beta apparently offers a feature called Remote Assistance . It seems similar to Network Assist...

Just for reference, a pretty complete list of TCP and UDP ports and their assignments ....

A few ideas that have been kicking around in my head long enough that I figure they’ll never actually be fully formed, so I might as well get them out now… T...

As always , the dumb people mess it up for the rest of us: Microsoft Trades Flexibility for Security ....

As promised: Microsoft Passport Part One: User Experience Okay, so after spending waaaay too much time reading all the documentation at the official Pa...