Static in the Ether

Laura A. Robinson has a nice piece describing the traditional OSI stack in terms of the negotiation of a meeting between two mafia a Dons.  While probably not for the technically minded ( I’m sure most people in the networking and security fields have their own little mnemonics to remember the PDNTSPA acronym), I think [...]

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I came across the following on facebook while doing my monthly catchup on who is who in the zoo. Is it bad design to allow users to inject their own content like this ? In this case is more a case of a litmus test of the awareness of social networking users , in terms [...]

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Thirty years ago today (8 June 1978) , Intel unleashed the 8086 16-bit CPU on the world, some four years after the debut of the 8080 which powered the Altair computer (something I wish I could find to own!). Computer world has a really nice writeup on the history and development of ver the last [...]

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Having a quiet evening at home is a fairly rare occurrence, but tonight it happened. Consequently I got so spent some quality time exploring the wealth of plugins available for WordPress.  After some picking and choosing Ive added a couple, and as the title sugegsts they are “web 2.0″ – for varing definitions of the [...]

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Quick and dirty, google mashup that has a MacOS-X feel http://www.theplaceforitall.com/googlex/

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