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From VNUnet:
A couple in Scotland who claimed to be addicted to computer gaming have been jailed for three months after admitting that they neglected their four children.
The father, 28, claimed to have become addicted to online gaming, and that his wife had also been affected. Arbroath Sheriff Court was told that the case was one of the worst ever seen by police and social workers.
CyberMatrix Corporation has launched DVD Trades. DVD Trades is a completely free web site that enables people in their own communities to trade legitimate DVDs, movies, CDs, games and software amongst themselves. There are many DVD trade sites out there, but DVD Trades is very different. Unlike other DVD trade sites, DVD Trades is completely free and you don’t have to wait several weeks for the trade to take place. The idea behind DVD Trades is that media can be traded amongst people within their own communities. Other media trade sites can involve lengthly wait times for the trades to take place. When you trade within your own community you can make the transaction at your leisure and there are no shipping fees.
Buying DVDs and other media is expensive. New DVDs can cost between $25 and $50. Renting DVDs is far more affordable but why rent when you can trade for free? There are no charges to join and use DVD Trades. Costs are alleviated though advertising. DVD Trades can be accessed from the web at: DVDTrades.net.
I haven’t tried this, but I received the press release, so I thought I’d pass it along.
I’ve posted twice before about how to get files to people over the web when you can’t use email.
Well, Box.net is a site that offers online storage. But you can also share folders, as well as offer some folders/files as an RSS feed. I haven’t tried it myself, but it sounds interesting.
Box.net is a virtual storage space for your computer files. For only $2.99 per month, you are provided with 1 Gigabyte (1,000 Megabytes) of storage space. This is large enough to hold thousands of Documents, Photos, Music Files, and Video Clips. Need even more? Box.net now offers up to 5GB of storage for only $8.99 as well.
Check it out at http://box.net/
From TechRepublic:
General Motors is expected to announce a new laptop next week that’s styled after its popular Hummer multi-terrain vehicles.
The carmaker has signed an exclusive three-year licensing agreement with Spokane, Wash.-based Itronix to make a portable computer designed for people who work outdoors: police officers, firefighters, claims adjusters and construction workers, for example, as well as people who own a Hummer and are fascinated by anything related to the oversize vehicles.
Every since I did a review of Inboxer, I’ve been using it quite successfully to filter my email. I check a dozen accounts and get about 2000 messages a day. There are probably only a couple dozen messages that are good. However, I’ve noticed lately that Inboxer seemed to be classifying more and more messages for review, rather than as junk. So I uninstalled it and installed POPFile and Outclass. I trained it on the 30,000+ junk messages I had, and it found 10 messages that Inboxer had marked as junk that really weren’t. That’s pretty good for Inboxer, considering it had marked the other 30,000 messages correctly.
I’ll use the POPFile/Outclass combo for a while and see how it does.
From TechRepublic:
A new Web site aims to help determine whether a specific computer has been sending legitimate e-mail or spam.
The TrustedSource Web site uses data from reputation filters, which are billed as the next big thing in e-mail security. Makers of spam-fighting tools collect data on e-mail senders and use that to assign “reputations” to e-mail sending computers and Internet domains. Those who send a lot of spam get a negative rating and their messages are more likely to be filtered out.
Opera is giving away registration keys for their 8.02 version of their Opera Browser. The CNET.com download site has a notice posted:
Note: For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT).
From New York Times:
Kyle Lewis, 25, missed going to church one Sunday last month. But he did not miss the sermon.
Mr. Lewis, who regularly attends services of the National Community Church in Alexandria, Va., listened to the sermon while he was at the gym, through a recording he had downloaded to his iPod. Instead of listening to the rock music his gym usually plays, he heard his pastor’s voice.
“Having an iPod is a guaranteed way to get the sermon if you’re going to be out of town,” Mr. Lewis said, adding that he listens to the pastor’s podcast at least once more during the week, usually while driving to work, even during weeks he makes it to services.
Mr. Lewis’s pastor, the Rev. Mark Batterson, started podcasting, or “godcasting” as he prefers to call it, last month to spread the word about his congregation. The hourlong recordings of his weekly service, available on theaterchurch.com, have already brought new parishioners to his church, he said.
For the longest time Gmail has given me 50 invitations. If I use a few, within a day or two, I’d be back up to 50. Well, today I noticed that the number of invitations is now 100. I don’t know what they’re waiting for, but if they are willing to let that many people receive invites, then why not just open it up to everyone?!
As always, if you want an invite, email me at gawing_at_gmail_dot_com and I will send you one.
From USA Today:
Matthew Szulik, CEO of open-source software company Red Hat, wants to show me his company’s new video.
It rolls through evangelical sequences about how the underdog open-source movement is going to prove wrong its doubters. To bolster this point, the video flashes quotes by people through history who had experienced some sort of brain flatulence when assessing a technology newcomer.
Among the quotes is this widely circulated comment attributed to Thomas Watson, builder of IBM, in 1943: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Except it’s doubtful Watson ever said such a thing.
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