A byte was once a straightforward thing. A KB was 1,024 bytes and the world continued to spin on its access. Not so anymore.
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The joke goes that 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2. It’s not really a joke, though; you’re computer can prove it for you.
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Are most of the people who use Facebook really that gullible, or is it just my little clutch of Facebook friends?
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A lot of hay was made that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash in its web browser. Steve Jobs commented off-hand that the reason for the lack of support was all the bugs in Flash. I think he’s on to something.
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A Facebook friend recently posed this question:

Need advice: Is it worth the $200 and the pain in rear to switch from Vista to 7 when you have dial up? Comments please.

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Google makes a ton of money, basically owning all of the Internet’s advertising. Still, we get a lot of free stuff for that money.
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Here I go! Off the deep end! Prepare to flee in terror from this blog post, because I’m going to be talking about how programs work on a computer. Not how to work a program, but what happens when the operating system takes a program from the computer’s mass storage system and tosses that code into computer memory.
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It appears that I’ve plugged the leak that was causing this blog to be hacked. I hope.
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This site is currently being attacked by hackers. They’re installing a redirect script, which your anti-virus software or web browser may or may not detect. I am working on solving the problem, but it may involve taking the site down and re-installing it. I’ll keep you posted.

Can anyone name anything successful that Microsoft has done in the past 10 years? (Say something! If you don’t, this will be one heck of a short blog post!)
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