Stemming the Tide

With all the accounts of Phishing horrors and IT security advisories warning against it, FBI’s breakthrough against a US-Egypt Phishing scam is definitely a welcome in the war against identity theft.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said 33 people were arrested across the United States early Wednesday while authorities in Egypt charged 47 more people linked [...]

Mapping Development

I remember when Internet great Google went on to release Google Maps a few years ago. The service made the once geographic modelling tool stuck in the pages of the Atlas a regular internet fodder. Since then, there have been a lot of innovations contributing to the technology and now, UN’s Millenium Development Goals are [...]

Some Creative Commons Pitfalls

ZDNet Asia featured an article discussing 3 common myths associated with the Creative Commons license which I thought worthwhile here. While it is patterned after FOSS licensing, it is nevertheless important to point out common misinterpretations of CC licenses in the interest of promoting respect for creative works. The article provides legal perspectives on these [...]

On Pauses and Breaks

A month ago, all I looked up to was the end of the semester. I thought much of the stress would come to a halt. I thought a lot of the pressures would ebb with school at a standstill.
I never couldn’t have been more wrong.
I’ve never seen problems at work pile up this much in [...]

Alternative to an Alternative

I switched to Firefox way back mainly because of a lot of reasons adding up to my over-all discontent on Internet Explorer. I was glad I made the switch then. Enhanced usability, less pop-ups and faster loading of pages was all too good reasons to have me consider another browser for my needs.
Add the fact [...]

Just a Readability Check

No this is not about a programming language criterion.
I found the Blog Readability Test over leelock’s blog worthwhile. Guess I really need the reprieve from the Sisyphean routine I’ve subjected myself to. After all I found it curious as to how I changed over the years in terms of writing. So I went there and [...]

Back with a Vengeance!

Or so I hope…
So on a stormy day which never had the place where I am see the sun, it was such a welcome to have one of the good things back. To think I was earnestly waiting for a regular doze of rain to freshen the ambience in our humble abode.
Just earlier this day, [...]

Download Day 2008

Leave it up to Mozilla to come up with the creativity for almost anything. This time, it has to be the record books–the Guiness Book of World Records to be exact. They intend to come up with a world record for “the most software downloads in 24 hours” on Firefox 3’s launch date. Not bad [...]

7.5 Going 8.0

I’ve been using AVG Free for computer protection ever since I’ve had my own laptop at home. Back then, my primary consideration was cost. After doing a modest amount of research, I went for it. Right now, I have 2 notebooks here running the software for security and protection.
Since version 7.5 would be supported by [...]

Talk About Perspectives

For the 4000th click just registered by this blog, here’s a lengthy list of puns on the half full or half empty perspectives of different people from this humor page:

A well-known proverb states: an optimistic would say a glass is half full, while a pessimist would say it is half empty. What would people of [...]