Archive for May, 2008

Secunia PSI – A way to scan for vulnerable and end of live software

Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) is a neat little application that scans your PC and informs you about outdated (only if it contains vulnerabilities), end-of-life and vulnerable software. Basically what it does is scans your PC (sort of like a virus scanner) and then creates a report of the software that needs attention. When I [...]

Business Update – I Haven’t Given Up

I haven’t given up on my business dream yet. I’ve put my business plan on hold for a few days while I read a book called The E Myth by Michael Gerber. This book was recommended to me by Mike Muise and is apparently one of the “must reads” for anyone interested in starting a [...]

Episode 14 of The Haiku Podcast is Available

Sikosis finished up the editing portion of the the Haiku Podcast and has posted it on the site. This time around we talk about the Google Summer of Code 2008 again, BeServed code being donated to Haiku, the Pineapple News Reader is being resurrected and much more! Of course, I am once again co-hosting the [...]

I am a TWiT

As most of you already know I am a super huge fan of TWiT and Leo Laporte. Someday I hope to be a guest on the show but that is not what this article is about (some may have wondered because of the title). Geoff Smith of www.ringtonefeeder.com wrote a very cool song called “I [...]

eBay – The Glory Days

I’ve recently started listing items on eBay again and it got me thinking about the changes I’ve seen in the past 10 years. When I first signed up on eBay, a little over 10 years ago, you didn’t need a credit card and there was no such thing as “Buy it now”. eBay was still [...]