* Gearhead: Follow-ups and Linux Mint * Backspin: Manners maketh the mail * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Follow-ups and Linux Mint
We’ll start with a followup on last week’s Gearhead on 2D bar-coding. Going by what was on the Nextcode Connexto Web site here and here, it rather looked like Firefox and OS X weren’t supported. The company’s CEO, Amir Rosenberg, dropped me a note, and it turns out that there have been updates and now both Firefox and OS X are supported using a Flash component instead of the original ActiveX component.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Manners maketh the mail
Last week my esteemed colleague below me on the back page discussed e-mail etiquette and his intense irritation with people who pre-thank — that is, who thank you in their initial message before they know how you’ll respond to whatever their message is about and then when and however you reply they, in turn, reply thanking you again.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Get a First Life (Part II)
Linden Labs developed Second Life as a game, but it’s gone nuts. Neurotics build sandcastles in the sky, psychotics move into them, and shrinks collect the rent.
Homer Simpson Lives!
From Los Alamos Nuclear Lab Loses More Data:
The error-prone Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory has inadvertently released highly classified nuclear weapons material again, this time by e-mail…
