Not being one to call for legislation very often, I would much rather see a market-based solution to the problem of Digital Rights Management (DRM), the 1984-esque term that really means “crippled and limited”. But I fear it may be too late.
DRM is really copy protection for video and audio, and like the efforts [...]

Once again, we’re faced with the complexity of the tax code. For ordinary wage earners, it should not be this difficult.
The withholding rules are screwy enough that we are once again getting a small refund from the Federal Income Tax and paying about the same amount to our California State Income Tax. [...]

I’m starting to build a modest, entry-level audio system with an eye toward leveraging the ease of using digital music. Rather than swapping CDs in and out of the player, a “music server” can play songs stored on your computer through your stereo. There are a few things I’ve learned that I’ll pass [...]