Guy Kawasaki has published a list of 10 cardinal crimes that you can commit to stop your web business taking off.
I agree particularly strongly with his number 9, (not allowing you to use your e-mail address as your account name for logging on).
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The Guardian lists some things you can use your microwave for, other than cooking food. Such as sterilizing the dishcloth or dyeing material. Julian Beever is a pretty amazing 3D pavement artist. Just take a look at some of his pictures here. Carrying on with our idea of watching DVDs that have a Spanish and an English sound track to improve our Spanish, we watched Bandidas (Penélope Cruz / Salma Hayek in the star roles) last night – in English to get an idea of the story, before we watch it in Spanish again in a . . . → Read More: Bandidas Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has very nearly 11% of the global market share – almost identical to Firefox’s global market share, according to OneStat.com. The global market share of all versions of MS IE is nearly 86%. There’s quite a few local variations – in the UK, the market share for MS IE 7 . . . → Read More: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has 11% of market share There are some original portraits on portrait-photos.org. From yesterday’s New Scientist: People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, Canadian scientists said on Friday. Researchers said the extra effort involved in using more than . . . → Read More: Keep up your second language So you follow the usual advice and have a password which includes capital and small letters, some digits and special characters such as “$” or “%”? You substitute “3″ for “e” and “1″ for “i” in a word and add a numerical suffix, such as a ZIP-code to it? Not good enough, says Bruce Schneier in Wired. It might work where you only get three guesses at an ATM, but it isn’t going to save your bacon if someone is trying to get access to a password protected file or account, where they can try thousands or hundreds of thousands of passwords each second. No, that’s not my opinion – I love good marmalade – but sales of marmalade in the UK dropped by 4.4% last year; 441 000 households stopped buying it altogether in 2006, and more households buy honey or jam than buy marmalade, reports the Guardian: Marmalade’s slide has been attributed to its not being . . . → Read More: Marmalade isn’t sweet enough Starting in mid-2007, the USA is going to scan in all ten fingerprints of people visiting the USA (at the moment they scan in 2 fingerprints). This allows the prints to be stored in a format compatible with that used by the FBI’s database. The fingerprints will made available to the FBI and international . . . → Read More: One step nearer to 1984 |
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