chris @ July 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hacklog: Blogamundo » Blog Archive » Cuil’s Unicode Support… Or lack thereof.
Why Cuil is a far cry from being useful right now.
(tags: unicode web search)
Internet Evolution | Susan Crawford | Deep Packet Inspection Fuels Deep Controversy
Why DPI is not like other forms of advertising. Exceptionally clearl laid-out argument
(tags: web marketing DPI privacy blog)
Epeus’ epigone: Here […]
chris @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
No Secret Software!
Growing out of Christine Peterson’s talk at OSCON2008: the principle that data collected as part of civic processs must not be processed using secret software. This strikes me as one of the most lucid statements touching on an important issue for us all.
(tags: software video opensource policy e-voting)
chris @ July 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I wanted to look into Google Spreadsheet Gadgets, which are quite exciting, and I can’t wait to play with this stuff, but then was stopped in my tracks by this (click for more readable image):
Now I have to nurse my confused soul, calm down, and take another stab at trespassing into the documentation.
Hat tip: […]
chris @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
LiquidID
An OpenId provider combined with spam-protection: It doesn’t give out your real email address, but redirects.
(tags: OpenID socialnetworking security spam email)
Thai 101: A Thai eggcorn: อุ้งมือ - อุ้มมือ
The title says it all. Wow.
(tags: eggcorns linguistics thai)
chris @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Review: Windows XP| Coding Sanity
“Upgrading from Vista to XP. Well-written. Probably soon of historical interest.
(tags: microsoft humour xp satire)
Blogger Help | How do I use the transliteration feature?
Blogger incorporates a minimalistic and highly useful input widget for several Indic scripts. Also available as an iGoogle gadget.
(tags: Google language transliteration Hindi Blogger Indic)
chris @ July 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring
Free website monitoring application. Trying it out as my hoster hasn’t been very reliable lately.
(tags: internet tools web monitoring)
Official Gmail Blog: Fighting phishing with eBay and PayPal
How it works? DKIM, which is based on Domainkeys and publishing your signing policy. Something I wanted to blog, maybe - it’s one of […]
chris @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So a Silicon Valley paper called Mercury News is running an article eloquently titled Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero.
Scrolling down, I look whether the paper runs reader comments. Yup — here are the latest ones (click for slightly larger version):
The term that comes to mind is fuckwits.
(Meanwhile, a […]
chris @ July 6, 2008 # 2 Comments
I was working (from home) last night, scheduled to run some tests after a major systems maintenance. Most of the following was written between 10pm and 2am while I was setting up the preliminaries and checking in for progress updates. And re-watching “Journey’s End” and the Confidential on iPlayer - make the BBC see we’re […]