A thought-provoking video on Facebook’s privacy policy and the risks we face, along with background info of some people pulling the strings behind the scenes. It alleges that there may be links with the CIA and US Department of Defence.
Thanks to Overacuppa for sending me this link.
Well folks, you’re looking at the latest version of my website. I realised I was spending way too much time working on it, hence I decided to release it in beta stage and work out the minor kinks along the way. The biggest difference is not a visual one. The code on MOST pages is…
I was shopping for a new domain name for my good pal Van Heng, when I decided to do a WHOIS on Microsoft. And you won’t believe what the hackers have done to their registry. This is a sample of what was listed on their server WHOIS (with additional insights from me, in brackets): MICROSOFT.COM.Z-IS-THE-BEST-Z.IFUD.COM…
Verisign has transferred its dot org registry powers to a new organisation called the Public Interest Registry (PIR), created by the Internet Society. Fellow dot-orgers, not to worry: contrary to earlier speculation, it doesn’t look like they’re barring personal websites from using this extension. In fact, there will be some improvements in the registration process….
I’m quite tired of getting so much referrer spam. Maybe it’s time I paid for a Mint. That’s Shaun Inman’s latest project, and it sure looks fresh and pretty. Anybody had a Mint yet? Tell me if it’s good for you. [Addition: Another nice flavour’s out, Vanilla for forums.]
For those of you who missed today’s Mind Your Body supplement in the Straits Times today: This responsible Singaporean has been alerting our National Environment Agency (NEA) to possible mosquito breeding grounds, through his blog. Well done! While doing my research on Podcasting, I came across this Wikipedia entry which mentions that opposition member Chee…
There’s a new Web 2.0 service called Fleck, which lets you make annotations on websites in a graphical format. For starters, here’s what I did for my own blog. Fleck will probably be useful in making notes on academic websites and other sources which currently do not have any feedback mechanism, such as the comments…