So amazon finally announced its so-called secret product last week. With much fanfare the world was introduced the new Android-driven tablet called Fire, featuring the Silk browser. Oh, the Kindle is still there too, and at a huge discount to its more glorious days, but who cares about Kindle now. As usual there has been — Continue reading »
Hurricane Comes, Server Goes
📆 August 30, 2011
Hurricane Irene has come and gone causing much damage and destruction in its path. I ended up with a leaky roof and a power outage. Relatively speaking, that's not so bad, except that the power outage lasted for what it seemed like eternity. Of course with the outage came the loss of this site as — Continue reading »
Block China Web Traffic
📆 August 25, 2011
Sometimes I'm so tempted to to do this: Block China Web Traffic IP Addresses and Chinese Hackers. Of course if everyone blocked everyone else indiscriminately that would go against the spirit of the Internet. What's needed is for the ISPs to get off their lazy and greedy butts and block attacks at their sources. Certainly a bunch of — Continue reading »
Internet Explorer 9 - Why Microsoft Must Break up
📆 March 24, 2011
I saw some news today that the Firefox 4 download numbers beat those of IE 9 by a large margin. And that even with IE 9 getting rave reviews for being built from scratch and being speedy, while Firefox 4 came out of beta way too late. Why is Firefox so popular and Google Chrome — Continue reading »
Filling Out Web Forms With Junk Data
📆 July 14, 2010
Ever needed to go to a web page only to be road-blocked by an insipid form with a million questions? Ever needed to test your own web forms and wanted a tool to quickly fill out a bunch of fields and pick a bunch of options for you? If you use Chrome, you're in luck. — Continue reading »
Star Trek on YouTube
📆 July 11, 2010
The fact that YouTube has a number of the original Star Trek series is pretty cool for geeks like me who grew up on the series. This one below shows an upload date of over 43 years ago. You think Roddenberry was time-travelling and uploading them to YouTube then? 🙂 ARPANET deployment was still a — Continue reading »
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