The Biggest Buggaboo of the Research Addict...

...The False Positive.

I mean, I remember sometime last year coming across a subject I thought I knew enough about, but I didn't take enough notes, and didn't bookmark the site.

Now when I try to look it up, I wind up with 20,000 sites that have nothing to do with it. Sheesh. I guess I'll have to figure out a "back way in".

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Happy birthday, ryalyn_kylene! Hope you can do something fun today.

FP

The Now That Is No More

MSN Article: Movie Plots Made Obsolete By Modern Tech.

The writer limits himself to business and consumer electronics, so I'm a little disappointed that the material from war and spy movies isn't covered either. One example I know from good ol' 007: On Her Majesty's Secret Service. James Bond has to crack a safe in an office building to find out what Spectre is doing. Well, as the building is next to a construction site, he manages to have a crane operator send a coffin-sized safecracking machine (or was it an x-ray machine? Have to watch it again. In spite of it being Mr. Lazenby, it's still one of my favorites)/photocopier/printer to the room where the safe is located. These days, the safecracker could be just one of dozens of functions of his super cell phone. Heck, it could be an MP3-player...all the more harmless-looking and unlikely to be confiscated.

FP (who would love to have a GPS unit with a Diesel-punk design case and display)