Pretentious word of the day

When reading this otherwise informative article on adult behaviour in MMOs today, I came across what HAS to be the most pretentious word of the Web2.0 trend. Wait for it. buyosphere WHAT THE F**K is that? Was the reporter trying to play on biosphere or blogosphere? In either case, that …

Firefox extensions cause memory leak

A while back, I had posted an article on how to enhance your firefox experience. Shortly thereafter, I came across an article on digg that pointed out several of my favourite extensions are responsible for memory leaks in Firefox, notably SessionSaver, FlashGot and Adblock (the last 2 only when installed …

links for 2006-04-14

Google’s Da Vinci Code Quest Google is now plugging movies? ewww. (tags: google advertising movies business) Gamasutra – Broussard Updates Duke Nukem Forever Status The mythical Duke Nukem Forever will finally ship as the developer will have to pay a half million dollar fine otherwise. I sincerely believe the game …

links for 2006-04-13

Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself A tell-all book on Microsoft is re-visited (tags: microsoft books controversy) Chemist discovers secret behind nature’s medicines – MIT News Office The enzyme behind natural antibiotics is found (tags: science chemistry news) HubbleSite – Hubble Finds that the ‘Tenth Planet’ is Slightly Larger than Pluto – …

links for 2006-04-11

When ‘delete’ is not enough | CNET News.com In case you didn’t know that digital information very rarely disappears (tags: security) Ogle Earth: A blog about Google Earth.

Travel pinmap

One of the “joys” of working as an IT consultant is that you get travel.. a lot. I saw this article in Lifehacker today, and I found myself interested in wanting to create a map that would show all the places I’ve been to. So I first tried out Community …

links for 2006-04-07

Neowin.net – Office File Formats Announced – Office File Formats Announced Why am I underwhelmed by this announcement? (tags: microsoft ms-office) TPCSv8 – Articles – The Cutest Human-Test: KittenAuth hah.. instead of wierd letters for captcha checks.. we use cute animals (tags: spam blogging programming) IGN: Top 10 Tuesday: Best …

links for 2006-04-06

There has been some severe flakiness in the weblogs.us servers the last few days and unfortunately that meant yesterday’s daily link post never made it. So here they are: CIO Blogs – Why IT and Users Hate Each Other | And to the ever-present battles of sales vs finance, management …