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Now llofte.com!

Posted by: llofte on: July 1, 2009

Yep, that’s right. I decided to take the plunge and purchase my own domain From now on, you must go to http://llofte.com if you want to visit my blog. Please make these changes if you have my blog as a bookmark or are subscribed to my RSS feed. This will be the last [...]

Showing Porn in Class

Posted by: llofte on: September 18, 2008

ABC reports that a high school teacher in Phoenix, AZ accidentally showed a class of 13 students 6 pornographic video clips.
Forrest Martin was a photography teacher at Arcadia High School for five years.  He brought his personal laptop to class to present his lesson with a projector.  After giving his lesson, he assigned half the [...]

Britney Gossip

Posted by: llofte on: September 4, 2008

Ok, I’m not one to write about celebrity gossip, but I can’t help myself today.  It seems to Britney Day… but then again, what day isn’t.
First on the agenda is that Britney Spears will be making an appearance at the VMA’s.  She won’t be performing (I don’t think the VMA’s are quite ready to risk [...]

Sonoma State Teaches Hacking

Posted by: llofte on: August 5, 2008

Sonoma State University professor, George Ledin, teaches a computer security course where he teaches his students how to write viruses.  This seems to be a controversial class especially among spyware companies like Norton and McAfee.  There are supposedly companies who have threatened not to hire Ledin’s students once they graduate, but Professor Ledin believes what he is doing [...]

iPhone 3G Activation… or Not!

Posted by: llofte on: July 11, 2008

Well, I lined up at my locat AT&T store at about 6:20 this morning and was about the 15th person in line.  Everyone was in and out at a relatively quick rate, but with non-activated iPhones.  The iTunes server has crashed so customers are being sent home to do the activation at home when iTunes [...]

iPhone 2.0 Software is Here!

Posted by: llofte on: July 10, 2008

Well, kind of.  Apple has not OFFICIALLY released the new software, but they have placed it on their servers for all the uber geeks out there to find.  Here are the instructions on getting 2.0 taken from Wired.

Sync your iPhone with the current version of iTunes — this is to make sure that all your [...]

New CA Cellular Laws

Posted by: llofte on: June 30, 2008

Beginning Tuesday, July 1, it will be illegal for adult CA drivers to talk on their cell phone without a hands-free device.  If you’re under 18, than you cannot use your cell phone AT ALL: no hands-free, no texting.  Here is a summary of the new laws taken from http://www.dmv.ca.gov/cellularphonelaws/index.htm:

The first prohibits all drivers from [...]


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