Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

It seems that spammers are becoming more desperate as they begin hammering blogs with a seemingly insurmountable amount of spam. As a result, Akismet isn’t catching them all as spammers get smarter.

Opera released their latest update yesterday and when they said it was fast, they weren’t kidding. Opera has been consistently faster than IE and FireFox for me, but this latest update blows all previous versions out of the water.

Does anyone else find Facebook a little more than annoying recently? I don’t know what’s more insulting: that Facebook thinks Yves has no friends, or that Facebook thinks I have time to find him more friends.

Imagine, if you will, a future where people are more aware of their ecological impact on the planet and strive as a single collective to reduce our emissions-loving ways as much as possible without simultaneously destroying nations and economies. Believe it or not, it is possible.

Japanese web pages are quite a bit different from their English-language equivalents.  While the English sites tend to have become more flashy with lots of white space, Japanese sites tend to cram as much as possible into as small a
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IRC has been an important part of my online life since 1997.  During this time, I’ve almost exclusively used a client named mIRC.  Just a few days ago I decided to install the new version on Windows 7, as the
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Wireless internet has become ubiquitous throughout much of the world, and it’s something that many of us enjoy using while out and about in the world. I regularly search new locations for open access points where I might check my
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A few weeks ago I was accused of living under a rock because I didn’t know who Susan Boyle was, or why people were talking about her.  When I asked the simple question of “why should I know her?” the
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It’s incredible how angry people seem to be while surfing the internet, and the lengths they’ll go just to vent their rage. Someone in Israel recently sent me a rather angry email calling me everything from a Nazi to a
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Is anyone else getting this happy message from Google?  It seems that every site I try to visit after a search results in this page … even if I’m querying something from my own site! Hopefully this is just something
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What were you doing three years ago today? Do you remember? Was it something that would ultimately change the course of your life forever? Odds are that you have very little idea what you were doing on January 28th, 2006
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For the better part of the past decade, we’ve heard a number of cries for attention throughout the various forms of media. If it wasn’t Iraq and WMDs it was Iran or North Korea. If the annual summer temperatures melted
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Perhaps the title is a little over dramatic, but Australia’s move to begin filtering the internet has left me wondering what effect this might have on other western nations. According to articles on the ABC, the BBC and the CBC,
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