HD for Non-HD TV Owners

If you're like me, you don't have an HD TV. With the change in broadcast standards to HD TV, we'll no longer have access to the channels we can get now. Well, instead of spending a bunch of money on a new TV, you can purchase a converter. Here's the added bonus, the government is kicking in $80 worth of coupons to buy the converter. Call or sign-up online for yours starting January 1.

CA.GOV Goes Down

I can't find an official press release on either California's Department of Technology's website or the U.S. General Services Administration's website, but it appears that for about 7 hours, the ca.gov domain was at least partially down. NetworkWorld has the story. It appears that the Transportation Authority of Marin County had their website get hacked and redirected to a website with pornography. In response, the U.S. General Services responded with too broad a "sword" and deleted the entire ca.gov domain. The proper procedure would have been to notify California's Department of Technology and then take down the site. Apparently, the wrong person or people were contacted. By the time the problem was realized on the west coast, it was after business hours on the east coast. The blame seems to lie with the federal government, though we'll have to wait for the report to here the GSA's response.