Internet Explorer may still be the dominant browser on the Internet but its clout is nowhere near where it was a few years ago. Back in the early days of the browser wars when IE4 finally unseated Netscape to become the front-runner, it enjoyed immense popularity. I certainly was a devoted fan and used IE — Continue reading »
Your Favorite Pet Name
📆 March 25, 2009
A couple of years ago a few sites started collecting answers to a few personal questions. The idea was to strengthen security by integrating a few personal questions to the authentication process. It also would help unlock accounts in case users forgot their passwords. After all the questions were private enough that only the account — Continue reading »
Microsoft Office on Google Adsense
📆 January 30, 2009
Hard to believe but sometimes even fierce adversaries use each other's services to promote their own products. I was a little incredulous when I saw the banner ad shown on the right on the homepage of this very site. It's from Microsoft advertising its Office 2007 suite on Google Adsense network. Who would have thought? — Continue reading »
YouTube Outage
📆 December 4, 2008
At my place of work we have a number of shadow Web servers that sometimes double as staging servers when we want to roll out new projects. The thing is that for any change, no matter how large or small, the proper approach is to install and inspect on test servers, followed by the staging — Continue reading »
News Robot Incompetence
📆 November 23, 2008
I am a fan of Google Finance. There's a lot to like. Real-time stock quotes, nice charts and graphs and a clean design. But when it comes to breaking financial news, Google just doesn't cut it. Many sites use bots to collect and disseminate news, but in the rapidly changing financial world a news bot — Continue reading »
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