By John | January 29, 2007
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).
By John | January 25, 2007
The Guardian lists some things you can use your microwave for, other than cooking food. Such as sterilizing the dishcloth or dyeing material.
By John | January 24, 2007
Julian Beever is a pretty amazing 3D pavement artist. Just take a look at some of his pictures here.
By John | January 22, 2007
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 few [...]
By John | January 22, 2007
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 is [...]
By John | January 14, 2007
There are some original portraits on portrait-photos.org.
By John | January 13, 2007
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 one language appeared [...]
By John | January 11, 2007
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 [...]
By John | January 8, 2007
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 sweet [...]
By John | January 7, 2007
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 intelligence [...]
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