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This weekend I was searching online for some FireWire enclosures when I came across this little gem. The WiebeTECH 1GB FireWire Keychain is a gigabyte of storage at your fingertips. Or maybe your keyring at least. It comes complete with an internal IBM 1GB Microdrive and a MSRP of $369.95.

Get a Netgear MR814 Wireless Cable/DSL Router for $50.
List Price $157.00
Buy.com price $77.05
Add to that a $30.00 Netgear mail-in-rebate, and your cost is $50.

The Model MR814 Wireless Router provides continuous, high-speed 11 Mbps access between your wireless and Ethernet devices. Also, the Model MR814 router enables your entire network to share an Internet connection through a cable modem or DSL modem that otherwise is used by a single PC.

Mac OS among least prone to attack. Data on more than 6,000 hacker groups reaching back to 1995, from mi2g’s SIPS (Security Intelligence Products & Systems) database produced a report on software vulnerabilities. The report showed, 1,162 new software vulnerabilities were discovered during the first 10 months of 2002, including vulnerabilities discovered in operating systems, server software, and third-party applications. Of these 1,162 vulnerablilites, fewer than 25 were attributable to the Macintosh operating system.

In contrast, Microsoft’s Windows operating system accounted for more than 500 vulnerabilities discovered affecting Windows operating systems. More than 200 vulnerabilities were discovered that affected the Linux operating system, according to the information released by mi2g, based in London.

The report also cited that 2002 was the worst year on record for digital attacks, with almost 58,000 attacks taking place during the first 10 months of the year. This is a 54 percent increase from 2001.

Speaking of TiVo, did you know they sold antenna balls, stuffed dolls and lunch boxes? Me neither.

I don’t care what your friends have told you…..Memes Don’t Exist!

I wonder if advertisers know how much more irritating pop up/under ads are on dialup.

Some of the world’s major record labels are already running quiet field tests of CD’s that cannot be copied, or "ripped", to a personal computer.

Using technology from companies such as Sunnyvale, California-based Macrovision Corp and privately held Israeli firm Midbar Technologies, the labels hope to staunch the flow of CD-to-MP3 copies that made the file-trading service Napster possible in the first place.

Yeah…yeah…bla..bla…We’ll all be buying the T-Shirts 6 months after they come out anyway. Why don’t they just give up?

Covad to file for bankruptcy. Money-losing Covad, which is based in Santa Clara, California, is one of a handful of cash-hungry telecoms to face pressure from bondholders to eliminate its $1.4 billion debt load. Deregulation and competition are driving the profits down and companies out of business. Many telecoms, including Covad, sprouted following industry deregulation under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. "Customer demand never met expectations, though, and many telecoms ran out of cash."

Go ahead….knock Apple all you want. But you’ll never see Steve Jobs running around like a fat monkey foaming at the mouth.

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