Phillip Greenspun has a post about the would-be Harvard business school "hackers". He says that the "hacking" consisted of editing the URL's to cut the last part off. So, if you apply to go to Harvard you should have a big checkbook and not too much between the ears. And to think, I just ordered Harvard Business Review thinking of it as a good publication. Maybe I'll have to reconsider.

Jim Dalrymple comments on the Megapixel Myth joining the "Megahertz Myth" as technology folklore. As the article points out a four megapixel camera will produce 4 x 6-inch prints as well as five or seven megapixel cameras. As with purchasing faster computers consumers believe they are getting something for the extra megapixels - and they are - a need for more storage, slower downloads, more expensive memory cards. Unfortunately these are likely not what they want.

I purchase my DirecWay connection through a VAR. In the past week things have been pretty terrible. To start with they have a web accelerator, which as far as I can determine is not documented or explained anywhere. They claim it has nothing to do with the failure of XML-RPC to work properly. Here are a few facts I've asked them to explain away:

Michael Singer's article on the iPod Shuffle demonstrates the bias that a handful of programmers would like to present. The article Apple's iPod Shuffle Stifles Podcasting quotes pundit Doc Searls, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, citing problems moving around inside a podcast. His take is that it is a problem on the regular iPod and instead of fixing the problem Apple eliminated the functionality.

Hopefully the people have tried to set the record straight about the incorrect stories in the tech press, will not ignore this issue because they are on the other side. Here is a bit of the reality for those who stop by. Many are a reprise from my earlier article on what Podcatchers (podcast listeners) want.