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Happy Anniversary WWW 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Today marks the 22nd birthday of the world wide web. At 21, a very short year ago, the WWW became of the age of majority in just about every country in the world. For a person to go from ‘child’ to ‘a...
Make a bigger Haystack 31 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
The NSA apparently has the capabilities to eavesdrop on just about anything you do on the web or on the internet in general. If you haven’t read that article yet please do, it’s quite a bit of insight...
Love To Learn (2) Highschool Horrors 19 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
A while ago I received an invitation to a high-school reunion. I didn’t go and I probably will never go to a thing like that. I’m trying hard to forget that period. I love to learn, but it wasn’t alw...
The Destruction Of The Web 13 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
Search engine spam was invented the moment search engines started to be good enough to send significant volumes of traffic to websites based on keyword searches. Before the days of Google search engi...
Sound Sensor Failure 3 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
Since about 6 days now, I’ve been almost completely deaf in my right ear. The reason behind it is as trivial as can be but for some reason or other it seems as though it isn’t going to clear by itself...
Why Stuff From China Is So Cheap 31 May 2013 | 02:00 pm
This is most likely the most disturbing video I have ever seen, and just to make sure that you can’t just click through I’ll make you work for it. Please take my hint and Don’t watch this video, inste...
How to go bankrupt 25 Apr 2013 | 02:00 pm
It’s fairly rare that I can write about the jobs I take on, this one is an exception to that rule and there are some lessons here that can help any entrepreneur, even the ones that are doing well. Thi...
Love To Learn 23 Apr 2013 | 02:00 pm
My lucky break was not finishing my education. It’s probably hard for an outsider to see the upside in having your home situation implode just when school starts to get serious, to go to work for a bo...
The API Paradox 11 Apr 2013 | 02:00 pm
APIs are great, they allow companies to expose parts of their engine for inclusion into the products of others to increase adoption and to facilitate the development of features and products around a ...
AppGratis Apple AppStore Appeal 10 Apr 2013 | 11:00 pm
In a heartfelt appeal to Apple from AppGratis founder Simon Dawlat we gain insight into the ridiculous situation around Apple’s appstore review proces. Seemingly on a whim Apple decided to toss AppGr...