Running – Page 2 – QuantumTom

I was considering running in the Santa Monica 5000…

… until I discovered it was being presented by Ed Hardy Sport. Whatever that is. I think I wanted to have nothing to do with it.

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”

Time-Warner Merger Trivia

At the time (pun intended) it was the largest corporate merger in US history. For some reason the lawyers were able to convince the shareholders that a merger of the two companies would be hugely profitable for them. Synergies would abound! Redundancies would be found! Efficiencies would know no bounds! In fact, for a while,Continue reading “Time-Warner Merger Trivia”

Monday News

The operating system for the new Palm Pre, WebOS, is supposed to offer some killer apps. Apart from its wireless charging capabilities is some really intuitive functionality. Supposedly, the new device will use the calendar, which will contain the location, time, and attendees of meetings, and couple all that with your GPS location, to calculateContinue reading “Monday News”

AT&T USBConnect Mercurcy

This is a neat little toy we got from AT&T Wireless. It is one of the new 3G air cards from Sierra Wireless. I had previously used one of their EDGE cards on an older Sony Vaio laptop and, while the speed was unimpressive even three years ago, it still afforded adequate coverage and consistentContinue reading “AT&T USBConnect Mercurcy”