Error 37 and the Longest Tuesday
Diablo III launched today and immediately buckled under Error 37, and a mandatory-online single-player game turned out to be a bad combination with an overloaded login queue.
Yahoo's CEO Just Got Caught Faking a Computer Science Degree
Yahoo's CEO resigned over the weekend after it turned out his computer science degree never existed, and honestly the bigger scandal is that nobody checked for ten years.
Nobody Checked Yahoo's CEO's Resume Until It Was Too Late
Yahoo's CEO resigned today over a fake computer science degree on his resume, and the part that gets me isn't the lie, it's that nobody checked for years.
I Missed the WWDC Ticket Window By About Ten Minutes
WWDC 2012 tickets sold out in under two hours this week and I missed the window entirely. Some thoughts on the ticket rush, the eBay scalping mess, and what I'm actually hoping gets announced in June.
Nobody Checks the Resume Until Someone Wants To
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson got caught claiming a computer science degree he never earned, and it says more about how loosely tech credentials get checked than about him specifically.
Yahoo's CEO Padded His Resume and Nobody Checked for a Decade
Yahoo's new CEO Scott Thompson has a fabricated computer science degree on his official bio, and it sat there unchallenged for a decade. The real story isn't the lie, it's that nobody ever checked.
The Galaxy S III Looks Great, That Launch Video Did Not
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S III in London last week, and the phone looks solid — but that cheesy pre-show skit video is what I can't stop thinking about.
Nobody at Yahoo Checked This Guy's Diploma?
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompsons resume claims a computer science degree he apparently never earned, and a hedge fund manager just called him out on it in writing.
Yahoo's CEO and the Degree That Wasn't There
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's bio claims a computer science degree he never earned. A look at why that one line matters more than it should, and what it says about how nobody checks anything.
UK ISPs Now Have to Block The Pirate Bay (For What It's Worth)
A UK court just ordered BT, Sky, and four other big ISPs to block The Pirate Bay. Here's why I think that changes almost nothing.
35 Million iPhones and a Bill Nobody's Talking About
Apple posted a record-smashing quarter this week (35.1 million iPhones sold), and CISPA quietly passed the House while everyone was looking at the stock price.
Renting Photoshop
Adobe wants me to rent Photoshop now, plus thoughts on the DOJ's ebook price-fixing suit and Greenpeace showing up outside Microsoft and Amazon over coal-powered clouds.