I’m beginning to notice a pattern: every few months, Facebook changes something and every body protests the change, threatening to delete their accounts in response. I’m also aware of a
Tag: computers
Why are people still talking about web browsers like it’s 1995? The EU wants to force Microsoft to include competing browsers with Windows. It came up on the last episode of Cranky Geeks and
Gmail has finally added support for Google Gears. This is great if you feel the urge to type an email or need to look something up while stuck in the Moot Court Room. Or if you’re annoyed by
It has now been a few months since I switched to Gmail. Here is what I’ve learned. Extensions There are two Firefox extensions that are absolutely great: Better Gmail 2 is a collection of
When this post on social networking was published by Rex Shoyama at IP Osgoode I tried a few times to write a comment on it, but each comment turned into a thoroughly rambling essay (to borrow a
I just thought this was an interesting set of suggestions by Facebook. I wonder what algorithm decided “Geoge” was a more likely name than
Backstory I used to run my own Courier/Postfix mailserver to manage my family’s email (technically, I still do, but more later). Of late, I’ve been finding this to be a little bit of a
My very first computer (a Kaypro). Interesting side note: I scanned this at very high resolution then scaled it down and I noticed that the quality of the picture got better as I increased the
I have been thinking about the big deal in security at the moment: DNS spoofing. Everybody, it seems, is all caught up in trying to figure out how to add more bits. They want to make DNS replies
Tabs are great. Nobody wants to have a window for every document they currently have open. However, they’re not perfect. Every implementation I’ve ever run across has the same flaw: when
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