I’m off to Europe for a much-needed vacation tonight and will be back in about a week. In the meantime, I recommend reading my column on Google, which will appear tomorrow in Tech News World, and also the Tech Liberation Front blog.

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As you know from my previous post (which was the product of various think-tanks folks one night in the sky bar…) I am currently in Aspen at the PFF’s annual tech summit. Today, there was a panel on broadband issues and the question of wiretapping voip came up. The cable representatives and the telcos said [...]

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In the flickering light of a warm Aspen fire (lit by gas, rather than wood, because this is the yuppie capital of the midwest…er, west, or whatever the the Coloradans would prefer to be called. Mark Blafkin, the CEI and PFF gang and I were sharing another libation from the fabulous Sky Bar. Discussing near-death [...]

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State Public Utilities Commission meetings are usually fairly boring affairs, but at last Thursday’s CPUC meeting, I was surprised to see a packed room and grand theatrics over UNE-P rates in California. I know what you’re thinking — didn’t a DC Appeals Court invalidate the UNE-P regs? Well, yes, but California is going ahead anyway [...]

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In case you’re not sick of hearing about Google, here’s a song (and some lyrics) about the search giant by USA Today writer Kevin Maney. Hilarious!

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A stupid question, perhaps, but the FTC wants to know. Whatever they decide will eventually effect all of us, so if you want to comment, here’s the form.

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From Cnet: “Johansen also wrote a program called JustePort, allowing software other than Apple iTunes to stream music to AirPort Express.”

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Here’s my Tech News World column marveling at how Steve Jobs is making the same mistake he made 20 years ago with the Mac OS by trying to lock other companies out of the iPod. That strategy didn’t work so well with the OS and you’d think he would have learned something from that. Microsoft’s [...]

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Since when did a T-shirt become a threat to air travel? “MIAMI (AP) – A couple returning home from a Costa Rican vacation was ejected from an American Airlines flight because the man was wearing a T-shirt depicting a bare breast….”

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Bob Wallace seems to think so. Here’s his argument.

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Just found this site that aims to “create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.” Cool! The destination of the month right now is, of course, Black Rock City.

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The Big Lebowski lives! I started reading the NYT this morning for the political coverage, but I found something way better, dude. That’s right — it’s a Big Lebowski convention! Check out this crazy line from the Times: “In virtuoso sequences, the Coens eroticize the sport of fat men, the only sport in which one [...]

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Here’s my column on Star Trek and the American character.

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Last weekend’s Trek convention was interesting and I will post a link to my column on that tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s a photo.

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A site called hymn — hear your music anywhere — offers users a way to decrypt iTunes files so you can play them outside the iTunes environment.

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