It’s interesting to see how the internet has evolved since the tech boon of the late 90’s. Probably the most bizarrely intriguing thing about the dot-com era is that a lot of the ventures and businesses that sprouted up were actually very good ideas that had legitimate profit potential. The problem (or one [...]
Wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted. Actually, in all fairness to myself, I have been doing quite a bit of blogging over these past couple of weeks. However, it’s been on my other blog that is only internally accessible to those who have access to the Sun corporate WAN. [...]
A subject of much debate recently is the internationalization of the organization that controls the DNS naming system and IP address mapping infrastructure of the internet. Currently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible. However, one problem that many foreign nations have is that it is a US based [...]
As you have already noticed, I haven’t been posting as much lately mainly because I’ve been so tired when I get home from work. Probably the most difficult aspect of starting my new job is adjusting to the schedule. For the past year or so in college, I had been able to strategically [...]
I don’t think that I’m going to make use of this service, but I thought that Katy would appreciate it. Tadalist.com offers an online to-do list management system! It’s actually a stripped-down. free version of a much larger web-based project management and collaboration system so it’s limited in functionality and features. [...]
A recent article from CNet.com outlines potential efforts from Congress to legislate file swapping services, suggesting that the services may need to be completely banned (?!):
A California senator [Sen. Dianne Feinstein] has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. … Pointing to what she called a “rise [...]
Now this is certainly big news. I mentioned the other day that Opera was giving away free registration codes for their 10-year anniversary. Well it appears that they’ve gone one step further now and have released the other other browser as freeware. Certainly superior to Internet Explorer, and comparable in features and [...]
I just came across another awesome extension so I couldn’t resist posting this one as well. If you happened to read a previous post of mine and you share similar frustrations, then perhaps this plugin is for you. In short, my previous post is just a rant about website developers that assume I [...]
I would imagine that most people reading this have no doubt used some type of online mapping service such as Google Maps, MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, or one of the several other notable services out there. Additionally, I would also imagine that most have gone through the cumbersome procedure of either copying and pasting the [...]
This is interesting:
Researchers at UC Berkeley claim they can just listen to keyboard taps and piece together a 96% accurate reconstruction of English words typed — and 90% of all randomly generated five-character passwords within 20 tries. The techniques used are “relatively easy” using a $10 PC microphone, open source spelling and grammar correction tools, [...]
