Archive for the ‘ Tech ’ Category

Living a RADical Life

I recently came across the (wonderful) essays of Paul Graham while searching for entrepreneurship material. Paul Graham (co-founder of Viaweb (aka Yahoo! Store), essayist, programmer and more) is a big believer in the idea of rapid application development (or at least a variant of it) (it’s also known in is abbreviated form, RAD). He often advises [ READ MORE ]

You Gave a Rose

I was met with an advertisement today on Facebook that told me that I had been given a “rose” by “You” (read: myself). I was then told to “Click to do something back.” Can’t believe the originality of automated ads. [ READ MORE ]

Windows Market Share, Mac Anti-Virus

  • December 3rd, 2008
  • Posted in Tech

If you’ve ever wondered about why Microsoft Windows attracts so many viruses, and why Macs have essentially none (yet), maybe this will help you understand: the market share of Windows has just dropped below 90% (the lowest it has ever been), while Apple just issued a “recommendation” for Mac users to start using anti-virus software. [ READ MORE ]

I am now on Ubuntu

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Firefox Download Day

Today’s the Firefox Download Day! Get your copy of Firefox 3 now and help set a new Guinness record! [ READ MORE ]

Remove Virtumonde.gen from Windows XP

  • April 25th, 2008
  • Posted in Tech

I was infected by the Virtumonde virus/trojan about a week ago. According to the F-Secure website Virtumonde runs hidden from the user and displays pop-up advertisements. The adware connects to a server and queries for advertisements to display. The adware actively prevents removal by using several different techniques. In my case, whenever I opened Internet Explorer a [ READ MORE ]

Friends in PHP

// Can I can be your friend too? Class Friend { if ($joke) laugh(“Jeez, you’re funny!”); elseif ($laugh) smile(“I’m glad you enjoyed it”); elseif ($cry) comfort(“Things will get better”); elseif ($lonely) hang_out(“You wanna go anywhere today?”); elseif ($angry) calm(); else offer_chocolate(“Want some chocolate?”); } // And so I guess we’re friends now? Real_Friend extends Friend { // There are no functions that you can see in this class. // There are only hidden [ READ MORE ]

Energy Savings with Blackle?

  • July 27th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

I came across a site called Blackle (via Slashdot). Apparently, it suggests that Google should change its webpage’s background colour from white to black, in an effort to reduce energy consumption. From the page: Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as [ READ MORE ]

Drupal or WordPress?

I’m having a little trouble concentrating on studying at the moment. Every time I open up one of my books and start reading about “Information Systems” and “Systems Development”, my hands start twitching uncontrollably and my mind goes wandering off into the land of websites and information technology. I start thinking about all the potential applications [ READ MORE ]

OpenDocument as Standard?

  • March 1st, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

California is looking to follow in the footsteps of Massachusetts in making the OpenDocument Format the official standard for state agencies, reports CNET. After I got locked out of MS Word for Mac recently (I won’t comment on this), I switched to NeoOffice, the native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice. My switching to NeoOffice left me [ READ MORE ]