Archive for October, 2006
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
One phish, two phish, red phishing-shield, green phishing-shield
Microsoft and Mozilla have released their new browsers Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 which include anti-phishing features that warn end users about web sites which suspected or known to pose as trusted parties for the purpose of stealing sensitive information such as ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Obstacles to getting real keep dropping: 37Signals now offers a free online version of their book Getting Real. Cool.
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Most of us remember Telus taking a huge misstep on the network neutrality issue by blocking access to its union website.
In an amazing about face Telus seems to have done some homework, obviously doing a bit of soul searching to figure out its role in the information economy. CEO Darren ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Concerned about your air quality? Crime rates? Thinking of moving perhaps? Neighboroo provides a cool heatmap style mashup of geographic data and Google maps, designed to let you research the key characteristics of neighbourhoods which matter to you.
I would like to see something similar for Canada.
Via the fabulous Infosthetics.
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Choose a problem which frustrates you on a daily basis that you think you can solve. You shouldn't have to look far. Passion is key, make sure you can get worked up about it.
Hone your powers of concentration. They are your brain's "killer app."
Learn to communicate succinctly.
Design efficiently and effectively.
Embrace ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Adam (crypto nerd extraordinaire, former evil-genius at Zero Knowledge) from the Emergent Chaos "jazz combo" throws us a reference and ties it in with an amusing story about misguided security concepts.
The Emporer's New Computer
Affixing a Mac logo to my PC was, after all, motivated by a combination of personal amusement ...
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Last week I attended the 37Signals "Getting Real" workshop where they indoctrinated the attendees on their parsimonious approach to building and running web applications. Getting Real is an exciting approach to software development currently largely practiced by Mac-toting revolutionaries. But rumours of folks building really useful applications and economically sustainable ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
40 years of pop music summaried in 37 minutes
Before I get to one of the more interesting pieces of music aware software I have seen lately, I need to credit Alex Gelfand with another interesting music nerd article in Wired:
DuBois...has developed a technique he calls "time-lapse phonography." ... DuBois devised ...
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