Communicating in a networked world
I was reading Dion Hinchcliff's “50 Essential Strategies for Creating a Successful Web 2.0 Product” (you should go read it when you have more time) and I’ve cherry-picked the points that ring true for me. His points are good and very interesting, but … [Continue reading]
I have friends who read tarot cards, and I myself have read tarot cards in the past (during the Hippie days, as if I actually had those). But I view them as a projective technique where what you are thinking about and hoping for is reflected in your … [Continue reading]
The old method for embedding a Flickr slideshow in a Wordpress blog no longer works after WP 2.1. Flickr creates really nice Flash-driven slideshows and there’s easy HTML code to embed these shows on regular web pages, but the code doesn’t work on … [Continue reading]
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is one in which a server or service is “overwhelmed” by traffic and consequently either disabled or made unavailable to its customers. Typically the effect on the target of a DoS attack is a loss of business, or in … [Continue reading]
Thubten Samphel, information secretary (of DIIR- the Department of Information and International Relations) of the Tibetan government in exile in India, has written a fictional account of young Tibetan exiles living in India, entitled Falling through … [Continue reading]