Recently, the big boys in the Internet browser wars have both released new versions of their flagship products. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9, and Mozilla released Firefox 4.0. Since I do some web development work at my day job, I use both all the time and have had a chance to compare them side-by-side. I [...]
With my recent purchase of an iPhone, I have decided to take more interest in how this blog looks and functions on mobile devices. The first time I pulled up the site in Safari on the iPhone, I noticed the graphics could make waiting for the page to load painfully slow. What to do? A [...]
Helen Thomas is the journalistic equivalent to the crazy old aunt who haunts your family’s holiday celebrations. Nobody likes her, yet she still gets invited every year just because you’ve always invited her. She shows up, and then proceeds to annoy and anger everyone in the room with every word out of her mouth, all [...]
To: Bill Gates, Cheif Software Architect Microsoft Corporation From: Nick RE: Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 Congratulations on the release of the new operating system. I have been running it through the ringer for almost a month now at my job to see if everything we use will work, and if not, if there [...]
The Mozilla folks have released version 2.0 of their award-winning web browser. If you use Firefox, you want this upgrade. Many new features and faster performance make this the best release yet. Also, it now includes a built-in spell checker. Perfect for people who blog. If you’ve never tried Firefox, now is the time. Although [...]
Still working on the two new call centers at work. Programming telephone systems can be fun, but it is a lot of work the way we are setting these places up. Will be working on these two centers for another week and a half at least. Will somebody please tell North Korea that unless they [...]
It looks like the Bush Administration has made another in a long line of second-term bone-headed moves: Newly released e-mails allege U.S. government officials pressured a leading Internet authority into voting against creating a kind of red-light district for adult Web sites. The apparent involvement of the U.S. Department of Commerce, President Bush’s chief political [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) rejected a proposal to create a “.xxx” top level domain for pornography web sites: NEW YORK – Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet’s key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the [...]
This is going to be a post which will be interesting only to fellow techno-geeks. So, I have placed most of it below the fold. If you aren’t a geek, feel free to pass this post up.
The United States will retain control over the Domain Naming System of the Internet, according to an agreement reached at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society: TUNIS, Tunisia (Reuters)—The United States will keep control of the domain-name system that guides online traffic under an agreement on Wednesday seen as a setback to [...]
Several countries are trying to have the governance of the Internet turned over to the United Nations, or an organization based upon the U.N.: Since the latest round of talks began Sunday, the specific wording of the summit’s draft declaration has evolved from “international management of the Internet,” written by Pakistan, to far less specific [...]
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