Ever have a reoccurring dream that you posted a blog entry, went out or to sleep for the night and when waking your blog had a life of its own? What once was your last entry has now been reformatted into better looking typography, altered colors and evolved into a much more esthetically pleasing site [...]
Archive for the ‘Webtech’ Category
Hey Dude, Where’s My Crime ?
Posted in Crime Wave, Webtech on June 25, 2005 |
Via the BBC: Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests. Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft. The findings are unwelcome news for the games industry, which says it loses more than £2bn annually [...]
A Viral “Beaver”
Posted in Webtech on February 10, 2005 |
Nice Beaver! We’re assuming that most of you are already familiar with the US phenomenon that is ‘Hooters”. Well even if your not, your gonna love their new rival “Beavers”. Whether you’re after the “Big Beaver” or the “Clam Strips” these ladies certainly know how to put the customer first. It’d be a “dam” shame [...]
An Enforced Hiatus
Posted in Blogs -- Distant Earth, Webtech on February 10, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Thought I had died didn’t you? Well, no such luck. My service provider was hit with what I guessed to be a DoS attack. During the downtime it appeared that all sites useing my host were also down, thus the DoS theory. My theory was off base by a bit, but the explaination for the [...]
Is This Good or Bad News
Posted in Blogs -- Distant Earth, Webtech on January 1, 2005 |
The Washington Post notes the second annual top ten list of spam e-mails for ’04 has been released. Produced by America Online it also claims the total number of spam e-mails has decreased from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 1.2 billion this year. Certainly good news, but you would be hard pressed to notice the [...]
The web portal Yahoo has signed a ‘voluntary pledge’ made by 130 of China’s net-based companies to observe a ban on “politically unacceptable” content. Reporters Without Borders Chairman Terry Semel in an open letter to Yahoo voices his displeasure and reminds them of previous support his group has given to Yahoo. “Yahoo! has always defended [...]
The Philippines “Digital” State of Mind
Posted in Webtech on July 24, 2004 |
Or lack thereof, reprinted from the Manila Bulletin Professor P.I. Flashbulb Two years ago President GMA directed all government agencies to put up a website “that would provide basic public information”, a move that was greatly applauded because this means that information about a specific government agency would be faster and readily available to those [...]
Is Your Blog Infecting Instapundit or WizBang?
Posted in Blogs -- Distant Earth, Webtech on March 5, 2004 |
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs have made a study of Weblogs by mapping the flow of information between blogs. The results run counter to what you may expect. The general perception is the Instapundits and Wizbangs of the world feed ideas to us lesser known Blogkeepers. The reality appears to be the inverse, new subjects posted [...]
Election Erection
Posted in Crime Wave, International Politics, Webtech on March 3, 2004 |
This isn’t good news. Unless your the conspiratorial type and still cling to the belief that “your guy” really did win in Florida 2000. In that case you may have an “Election Erection.” For the rest its more proof that electronic voting isn’t ready for Prime Time yet. SAN DIEGO – An unknown number of [...]
Another in the E-Voting Series
Posted in International Politics, Philippine Politics, Shady Dealings, Webtech on March 2, 2004 |
This subject continues to get media play, and I suspect it will for the foreseeable future. The subjects previous incarnations include the unreliability of touchscreen voting machines. In Nov.’03 a story about the Ohio attempt at the electronic age. Even the US Military attempted to vote by Internet but retreated its position when confronted by [...]
