In this modern day of mashable web services, we sometimes get caught up in what the latest app or web service is enabling us do. All for the simple price of our e-mail address. Sometimes we just want to do something simple, like have our Twitter updates go to our Facebook wall – rather thanContinue reading “HOWTO: Send Twitter updates to your Facebook wall”
Author Archives: Quantum Tom
Bike versus Volvo
This morning I came upon the aftermath of what looked to have been a fairly nasty traffic collision at the intersection of Colorado Avenue and Princeton Street in Santa Monica. I can’t tell much about what happened. If I had to guess, I’d say the motorcycle struck the Volvo. I’d bet the Volvo was tryingContinue reading “Bike versus Volvo”
T-shirt is FAIL (nerd alert)
I’m sorry, but the statement on this shirt is misleading and totally incorrect. I wish it were cooler, because it has so much potential, but whoever made it doesn’t know the first thing about how a base-2 numbering system works. They obviously just asked a CS major in their dorm what “2” is in binary.Continue reading “T-shirt is FAIL (nerd alert)”
New iTunes DJ enables playlists of the people
Apple has released version 8.1 of its iTunes software with some patches, some upgrades and a couple new features. My favorite of these is the iTunes DJ. The iTunes DJ resembles what was previously called called “Party Shuffle.” Maybe Apple’s iTunes team was worried no one was using this feature, maybe they felt threatened byContinue reading “New iTunes DJ enables playlists of the people”
Reporter runs a spam campaign on air via botnet
This is amazing. I always knew that running a spam campaign would be easy – once you got in touch with the “rancher” but I’ve never actually seen an operator run one. The BBC television program Click has done an episode where a reporter shows – once you have everything in place – just howContinue reading “Reporter runs a spam campaign on air via botnet”
