http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/ News and commentary from Martin L. Shoemaker, author of Tablet UML en-us 2008-02-09T15:02+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1176784807.shtml Quick primer: phishing is email that pretends to be from some business or bank with which you might have an account, urging you to take some action to protect your account... Martin L. Shoemaker 2007-04-17T04:04+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1176389122.shtml When I'm traveling on my own dollar, I keep an eye out for Red Roof Inn. They're consistently at or near the lowest price of any national chain, and they're... Martin L. Shoemaker 2007-04-12T14:04+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1169929421.shtml The color red is one that the cone cells in our eyes tend to be particularly sensitive to. This drawing is incredibly crude, and is drawn from fifteen-year-old memories,... Martin L. Shoemaker 2007-01-27T20:01+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1168803986.shtml Not that that's news; but it's rather shocking to see the magnitude of this effect.... Martin L. Shoemaker 2007-01-14T19:01+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1168396642.shtml It caught my eye with a commercial. I had been watching a CBC interview show that promised an interview with Alan Rickman. I've been a fan since Die... Martin L. Shoemaker 2007-01-10T04:01+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1168389601.shtml In a complete lack of political correctness, they're called "booth babes": women with model-quality looks, hired to stand in your trade show booth and draw attention to your products that might... Martin L. Shoemaker 2007-01-10T01:01+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1167188949.shtml One of my favorite blogs is Ron Coleman's Likelihood of Confusion, which (mostly) deals with his specialty: Intellectual Property (IP) law. Being in the IP business myself (with both... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-12-27T03:12+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1167185413.shtml So for Christmas, besides a super-cool Superman Returns lunch box with the two-disc Superman Returns DVD inside (and dang, I can't find a link for that lunch box online anywhere!),... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-12-27T02:12+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1165905682.shtml It's a cliche, but it's generally true that kids adopt computers faster than older people do. They don't have any fear that they might do something wrong and make the computer... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-12-12T07:12+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1165675951.shtml ... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-12-09T14:12+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1163550012.shtml I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that Mitch Albom is a shallow, mediocre hack. Oh, he's a likable hack; but after listening to WJR for a couple of months for the... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-11-15T00:11+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1163342650.shtml OK, this may be old news to some of you; and it's obvious, once you think about it. But it's news to me, so I want to pass it along.... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-11-12T17:11+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1161189250.shtml Velcro belt straps are a conspiracy by cell phone manufacturers to sell lots of replacement phones.... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-10-18T16:10+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1160541887.shtml Alan Stewart Carl writes that There Is No Vital Center. Dean Esmay links and expands upon this, concluding:... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-10-11T04:10+00:00 http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/posts/1160369560.shtml There's a reason I do software, as opposed to other technical professions: it's deterministic. I can make sense of it. If there's a memory leak, then there's always a memory leak,... Martin L. Shoemaker 2006-10-09T05:10+00:00