How to Lose Your Work in Gmail in One Simple Step
I’ve been planning to come back from my “blogging hiatus” (code for writers’ block) with a more substantial piece. After all, my drafts folder is full of half-baked, abandoned posts. But hey, no better incentive to write then frustration! Have you ever seen this error? Yes, I’ve just finished composing email, hit SEND, and thought [...]
Future Prediction Epic #FAIL!
A quote from 1995 in Newsweek, “Newsweek magazine in 1995: “Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic. Baloney. [...]
Nothing says Information Security Fail quite like 75000 compromised computers
Information Security people in companies worldwide are reeling this morning with the news of just how large the Google break in was, and the sheer number of company’s and computers compromised in the latest round of attacks. Nothing says “Information Security Failed” more than this simple number, 2,500 companies, 75,000 computers and counting, and hundreds [...]
The Lego Internet
Jessie Stay over at Staynalive brings up the idea of the Lego internet, where large companies are busy making widgets, API’s and other building blocks that designers and developers can leverage in their own applications. Jessie mentions that the Building Block internet might just be a way to visualize Web 3.0 which is not a [...]
*Chirp, the Twhirl-killer Wannabe. DOA.
Gotta love new killer apps – like Chirp – actually, it is *chirp – the Twhirl-killer mother-of-all Twitter Clients. Only for Vista – oh, well, if I am stuck with Vista, for once in my life let this be a benefit – let’s try this baby. First installation attempt crashes Windows Explorer. Not a good [...]
Is Hulu the First Casualty of the Inauguration?
O-Day was supposed to be the first US Presidential Inauguration largely available online. 54% of our readers are based in the US, and it’s probably fair to say the lives of others will also be affected by the change of guards in the US, so I thought it was a good idea to provide the [...]
How Do You Tweet that Twitter is Down, when Twitter is Down?
Twitter homepage: Has the Fail Whale retired? Will the Maintenance Worm become as popular a brand as the Whale is? Related articles: Twitter is Down! (I forgot how much I miss typing that) Caterpillar Cone: The new Fail Whale for Twitter? Simultaneous Downtime for SmugMug and Twitter
