http://www.matsumpter.com The meandering diatribes of a geek, a hacker, and a husband! Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:31:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently my wife and I decided to travel back to our home town in September. We normally rent a mid-size car and drive the nine hours each way over a two day period. Being under twenty five and renting a car isn't very cheap, especially when you plan to ... http://www.matsumpter.com/skybuscom-flying-cheap-and-efficient/ "There will always be something that falls into the gray area," BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa told the Wall Street Journal. That's where his company comes in. BayTSP is currently employed by Viacom for over $100,000 per month—other companies pay up to $500,000 per month—for its services. For that money, BayTSP ... http://www.matsumpter.com/copyright-management-and-protection-with-a-west-coast-mindset/ A bill introduced into the House of Representatives this week will attempt to spur broadband development in the US by overturning existing state bans on municipal broadband deployments. Titled the Community Broadband Act of 2007, the bill (PDF) is cosponsored by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI).Currently, ... http://www.matsumpter.com/community-broadband-act-would-overturn-bans-on-municipal-broadband/ Microsoft's first ad-supported office suite is almost here; it just happens to not be Microsoft Office. The Redmond giant has opted to use a more expendable test subject for its foray into ad-supported software: the much overlooked Microsoft Works. The existence of the pilot program has been confirmed by Microsoft ... http://www.matsumpter.com/microsoft-preps-first-ad-supported-client-software-pilot/ The iTunes Store said Tuesday it had passed a milestone, selling more than 3 billion songs since launching four years ago. .... In April, the Cupertino-based company said it had sold more than 100 million iPods. It reached that milestone in the five and a half years since the first iPod was ... http://www.matsumpter.com/itunes-surpasses-3-billion-songs-sold-wow/ While surfing Google News today, there were some very interesting articles on Microsoft Vista's security. In case any one is interested here are the original links in the image: Windows Mail bug may expose Vista user (CNET) Microsoft Gives Vista Security an A-Plus (PC World) Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS, says ... http://www.matsumpter.com/a-picture-really-is-worth-1000-words/ Fasterfox checks robots.txt where a webmaster can disable features which make Fasterfox so great, Here it has been edited to disable this robots.txt checking so that now if you use this Fasterfox your speeds will be increased on all websites regardless! Read more I am all for a user being able ... http://www.matsumpter.com/fasterfox-without-drawbacks/ My wife managed two retail stores in the two local malls here in Dayton. The major seller is body jewlery and accessories. She also sells the tools required to peirce yourself. We always encourage people to seek professional help when they ask about peircing their own body. This is a ... http://www.matsumpter.com/botched-piercing-ouch/ These things are just crazy, over the past several weeks there have been numerous shootings at schools. A student just brought an AK-47 assault rifle to the middle school I attended just seven years ago. It's hard to imagine a place where you once attended has now been thrust into ... http://www.matsumpter.com/school-shootings/ Well we got back Wednesday morning around 1am EST. In a 13 day span I drove 2,761 miles and used 90.795 gallons of gas. Comes out to be almost 30 miles per gallon, not bad for my little Scion tC. My wife and I shot over 400 pictures and they ... http://www.matsumpter.com/back-from-vacation/