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According to the New York Times BITS section, whois may become whowas due to it’s incredible abuse by spammers. If you’re not familiar, WHOIS is a large database similar to a phone book for websites. You can look up who owns a particular website and what their contact information is. In order [...]

I was checking my Google Homepage a few weeks ago and I noticed an article under How Stuff Works entitled “How Quantum Suicide Works.” The concepts in the article were a little complicated at times (well the background physics might be considered complicated), but overall I thought it was a pretty interesting and worthwhile [...]

Here’s my turn to be Sadie for a minute. I finally finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Overall, it was pretty good. I liked John Berendt’s writing style and the laid back atmosphere of Savannah was relaxing to read about. It wasn’t the most intense or exciting book [...]

I now buy music from Amazon.com’s mp3 site. It serves up a ton of singles and albums. The BEST part is that all downloads are in mp3 format (not AAC or drm) and are DRM-free. I’ve been waiting for this type of service for a LONG time. My first album? [...]

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Most software costs over 100 US dollars. How can you give it away?
A better question is how do software companies get away with charging so much? Software is not like making a car. Once you’ve made one copy of your software, the production costs to make a million more are tiny (there’s [...]

I found myself on Debian’s website today for the first time ever, I think. This is weird considering I’m a big supporter of their philosophy. Nonetheless, they had some inspiring words on free software. The quote below is an example, but the whole page deserves a read to be honest.
Software that is [...]

So I realize I’ve been slacking with this website. Turns out med school was a lot more work that I imagined, and a lot of my free time has been spent working on the RMstudents website. Fortunately today we completed our move to ANhosting and there should be more time for development. [...]