Subject: Computer Technology

• Give Me (Bomb) Shelter

  I get by with a little help from my friends. Got a note from one of 'em today, in fact, a patriot hard at work supporting our troops. [Dear Navy Customer], On Friday we discussed pushing the Dev. updates from February to the [Server of Imminent Doom]. As you know, these updates broke the Dev. server last February which makes the outcome of any Live push questionable. Per your request, I had planned to make the updates tomorrow (Tuesday). Since the tape backup isn't working at the moment, we (yo

  July 24, 2006

• Fun with Computers (Friggatriskaidekaphobia edition)

  If your plan for getting your taxes done before the looming deadline involves using Turbo Tax's online service, you may want to reconsider. According to NBC 4 in Washington D.C., a customer wanting to check her tax info Turbo-ly, discovered something big and bad by accident. ""I knew immediately how big this was," she said. "This is very, very bad."" A Turbo Tax customer herself, the woman attempted to access some past filings and the route she took online opened returns for several others w

  April 13, 2007

• Insta-Feedback to the New Website

  The names have been withheld to protect our incense. Your Favorite Time-Waster's answers--not that anyone asked for them--appear in groovy italics: Where did the link to the personals.ocweekly go on the home page? http://personals.ocweekly.com With the new website format instituted today, WHAT HAPPENED to ARCHIVES? I fail to find the earlier "Ask A Mexican" colums. Not happy about that! The suits--if an alt.-weekly's suits can be called suits--decided it was better to get the site up now c

  December 20, 2005

• Porn Spammers are F-d Up

  Following that last thrilling post, we went into our Askimet spam folder to delete all 156 pieces of crap that acquired in there since yesterday. We do that so there is no way you, the home viewer, will be exposed to unwanted (and unpaid for) advertising. That's just a service we provide. 'Cause that's how we roll on Sycamore Street in SanTana, G. Anyway, one thing we noticed along the way was how many of the spams had the headline "More Photos from Mumbai." Of course, if you clicked on that li

  July 12, 2006

• Beach Break: Send in the Clowns - Eventually

  On the corner of Pine Avenue and Shoreline Drive in downtown Long Beach hangs a banner. It says "COMING SOON." and it's been hanging for years from what is supposed to be the newest Laugh Factory at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor. A November 2003 article in the Long Beach Press Telegram celebrated the grand opening of the "entertainment-retail center," saying that it was "off to a good start." The article stated that the Laugh Factory was scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2004 (January 1

  June 22, 2007

• Earth to Sol-T

  Listen, buddy. Nominating yourself for "best local hip-hop artist" on our online poll DOZENS of times ain't gonna get you a place in print. So quit spamming my inbox. Besides, aren't you from...Los Angeles? Which makes the nomination, y'know, moot. UPDATE: Sol-T's people tell us that page was outdated and that he's an OC boy.

  August 7, 2007

• Graveyard shift at the Times' OC plant, anyone?

  If your dream job involves working 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., has the Los Angeles Times got something for you! Get Informed about a company built on courage, achievement and creativity. A company that’s part of the most dynamic industry in the world – media! The Los Angeles Times is much more than just the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country. We strive to be the definitive source of news and information for Californians - in print and online. Our ev

  November 19, 2007

• Pardon Our Digital Dust

  So our website has changed quite a bit. Many of the differences are intentional. Some of the others are, um, not. If you're having problems using our online article archive search feature, or if you click through on a link and it takes you nowhere, it's not you. It's us. Our crack development team is making numerous improvements to the look and functionality of the site—but it's still a work in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience. We hope to have everything sorted out—better, stronger, f

  August 22, 2008

• Plating Sylvia Plath

  July 29, 1999

• The Wire: Haidl and Carona Caught on Tape

  Today at ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial, prosecutor Brett Sagel introduced the following inflammatory excerpt of a secretly recorded July 7, 2007, conversation between then-Sheriff Carona and Don Haidl, who had served as assistant sheriff. At the time of the conversation, Carona knew that the FBI was investigating him on suspicion of public corruption. What he didn't know was that Haidl, his longtime pal and the alleged source of a large amount of bribes, had a

  November 6, 2008

• Get your FREE Coachella App for your iPhone [Correction]

  Correction: Before you read further, the video and description of the Coachella iPhone App below is NOT THE FREE ONE. This program is not affiliated with the festival. The FREE App, written by Dave Bullock has a few specific differences:1) The official Coachella App is FREE, the program below costs money :(2) The FREE app allows you to download photos to www.coachella.com before and after the festival3) The free app has a friend finder that allows you to see your friends locations on a map aroun

  April 8, 2009

• Silversun Pickups

  The Glass House

  April 9, 2009

• Aural Reports

  Debutante Squall: Millionaires' naughty intentions and catchy electro pay dividends

  January 10, 2008

• Wax-scratch Fever

  FEEDBACK: The analog-digital wars rage on as OC DJs debate their weapons of choice

  November 15, 2007

• A New Breed of E-Horror

  February 4, 1999

• Internet Appleiance

  August 19, 1999

• Boredom Is Exciting

  May 20, 1999

• Orchestre Surreal

  Cerritos Center

  April 16, 2009

• Theyre My friends and Im a Swinger!

  OC businessman allegedly sold fake computers during the day, call girls at night

  January 11, 2007

• Fire Bomb

  February 9, 2006

• Trendzilla

  December 15, 2005

• The Tweakings of the Decent

  March 3, 2005

• Stalking for Dummies

  February 24, 2005

• Geek My Mail

  September 16, 2004

• Award of the State

  December 11, 2003

• The Danger of Google History in a Time of War

  March 27, 2003

• Mad-Scientist Rock!

  August 22, 2002

• The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized

  May 23, 2002

• By Any Means Necessary

  July 19, 2001

• Burning Sensation

  September 28, 2000

• Filtering Flip-Flop?

  October 5, 2000

• Game On!

  March 23, 2000

• Making Copies

  February 3, 2000

• Extreme Holiday Gift Guide

  December 16, 1999

• Witness for the Scumbag

  October 7, 1999

• Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

  June 24, 1999

• Bombay Breakdown

  April 29, 1999

• Sequelitis Hits Gaming!

  March 18, 1999

• The Jesus Virus

  March 11, 1999

• Non-Windows Users of the World, Unite!

  February 11, 1999

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• Millennium Plan Madness

  December 24, 1998

• X-Stopped

  December 17, 1998

• Taming the Beast

  September 17, 1998

• Shut Up, Again

  March 5, 1998

• Welcome to Agrestic, errrrr, Orange County

   When did Showtime's Weeds, which is set in Valencia or Calabasas or Santa Clarita or Stevenson Ranch or Gorman or wherever the hell it is, spring up in Orange County? It's sure seeming very Agrestic-like based on two police incidents mere hours apart Wednesday.First, cops started going door-to-door in the 1100 block of East First Street in Tustin because someone had called saying marijuana was being grown and sold in the area. The odor led officers to a particular home around 9 a.m., and w

  July 23, 2009

• Christian TV

  September 24, 2009

• Locals Among Dozens Caught Up in International Criminal Phishing Scheme

  No, not that kind of fish fry. ​Congratulations, Orange County! Some of your residents were among today's arrestees in the largest cyber crime case of its kind. "Operation Phish Phry," the first joint cyber investigation between Egyptian law enforcement authorities and United States officials, netted the most defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case, turning up domestic suspects in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, elsewhere in&nb

  October 7, 2009

• Dance Music Pick of the Week: Joris Voorn at Code

  Krijin van Noordwijk​Once every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced the world to the tuneful, down-tempo side of e-music in 1999 (Play). In the '00s, much of the progression happened behind the scenes and in studios where technology forged new ways of layering, mixing a

  October 8, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Laptops of Luxury

  October 8, 2009