Remember last year, when my Linksys wifi router just suddenly stopped working for no discernible reason, and I went out and bought a Belkin wifi router as a replacement? Yesterday, the Belkin wifi router stopped working, for no discernible reason.

Unlike the Linksys (which turned itself off entirely), the Belkin still works as a router, but it no ( Read more... )

Microsoft has been giving bloggers free laptops, no strings attached, loaded with Vista, the new version of Windows, hoping for some good buzz. Via whumpdotcom, I see that Joel Spolsky isn’t happy:

This is the most frustrating thing about the practice of giving bloggers free stuff: it pisses in the well, reducing the credibility of all blogs.

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