I’ve been on a Christmas-break of sorts and as is typical for such “holidays”, one chore I had to complete was procure parts for a vacuum cleaner – something I don’t have time for on most weekends. After an incredibly long and frustrating series of phone calls with Sharp Singapore’s …
Folks who run their websites on dedicated servers are familiar with SSH as a way to securely connect to their server from any location. A less well-known aspect of SSH is built-in support for tunneling – which can be simply explained as “built-in proxy server”. As the article I’ve linked …
I’ve been listening to the “Physics for Future Presidents” Lecture Series and was amused to hear Prof. Muller state that while he does watch SF movies and can reconcile most of them with existing scientific theories, he simply could not wrap his head around “The Core” – which as I …
Popular blogs covering the Web2.0 movement as well the larger web community seem to believe that Spokeo and Friendfeed are competitors. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that Spokeo is about the network while Friendfeed is about the community. Having now used both services for a …
If there is one thing the Lazyweb has taught me, it is this – You are NOT a special snowflake. Feel free to add more lazyweb lessons here 🙂
Those of you who are kind enough to follow my ramblings on Twitter will know that I was offline for a few days moving house. Random thoughts/suggestions from the same to follow: If you are moving to an unfurnished/semi-furnished house, get yourself a tape measure. The number of additional trips …
Just a grab-bag of stuff from my recent trip to Taipei before it completely fades from memory: Singapore Airlines Business Class especially on the newer 777-200 planes (777-200 ER specifically) is wonderful – ample leg and seat room; power points in each seat; personalized service. The KrisFlyer Business Class lounge …
From the department of too-many-generalizations-from-too-little-data again: a little bit of armchair theorizing about BitTorrent (especially public BitTorrent trackers) as a reliable distribution mechanism. Let me clarify that I’m not talking about reliability in terms of whether the data arrives without errors or even whether the data is really what it …
Wrapping up the series with some thoughts on two things that bug me about modern standards-based Web design / CMS: Why is Base HREF dead? This probably reveals just how old-school a HTML coder I am, but I can still remember the days when Base HREF was a Big Thing. …
Drawing conclusion from the actions of a single individual is not very good research, but draw your own conclusions from this little anecdote. My boss at work till very recently owned a Nokia N95 – despite all it’s gee whiz features, he primarily used it for two things – phone …