Censorship on MSN Instant Messenger
I wonder, do they filter anything else besides Scroogle.org? How about retaining conversations containing 'controversial' terms?
Category Internet
Patent Insanity Redux
"Intertainer was the leader of the idea of entertainment on demand over internet platforms before Google was even thought up".
Hmmm, no. Try again: Intertainer is two people and some lawyers trying to make money out of nothing. This needs to change.
Ελληνικό Internet και Triple Play
Δύσκολα, πανάκριβα, αργά. Η νέα φράση-κλειδί για τους αφελέις/αδαείς είναι το ‘triple play’. Τα στελέχη των ISP το πιπιλάνε χρόνια τώρα. Μόλις κατάφεραν να θάψουν μερικά χιλιόμετρα οπτικής, να στήσουν ένα δύο DSLAMs αρχίσαν και οι διαφημίσεις. Επειδή μας φλομώνουν στη διαφήμιση, έστω και αν εμείς κατα κανόνα δε βλέπουμε τη τηλεόραση τους, δεν ακούμε […]
Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington!
The last episode of the Ricky Gervais Podcast, starring Ricky Gervais (duh), Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington was released today on iTunes (and I guess Guardian Unlimited). I found out quite late about the Ricky Gervais Podcast, despite it being one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Actually, let me rephrase it: probably […]
My Favourite TextMate Themes.
TextMate is by far the best editor I’ve seen on Mac OS X or any other platform I’ve used since 1989, both in terms of features, usability and æsthetics And in its relatively short history, from October 2004 to date, it’s managed to get its fair share of accolades, a huge following and countless extensions […]
Supporting the Commons and Wikipedia.
As is the case for some time now this time of year, the Creative Commons and Wikipedia are asking for your support (== money) to keep doing what they are doing. I find that — at least — Wikipedia is doing a great job and is a highly valuable community service worth supporting. Creative Commons, […]
Spammed to death.
About a month ago I wrote about the surge in comment spam this site has experienced. Well, it’s still going through the roof. I’m getting more spam everyday. This past few days I’ve received more than 800 spam comments per day. It took several months to cross the 1,000 mark. Last month I was at […]
Is MacHeist worth it?
MacHeist is a bundle of Macintosh applications where 25% of the price paid goes to charity. It consists of 9+1 applications, many of them award winning and pretty well known, that — if bought separately — would cost around $300. The bundle goes for $49. The applications are Delicious Library, NewsFire, FotoMagico, ShapeShifter, DEVONThink Professional, […]
Rules for Switching
Το BBC γράφει σχετικά για τους νέους κανόνες του Ofcom (της Βρετανικής ΕΕΤΤ) σχετικά με την ευκολία αλλαγής (ευρυζωνικού) ISP. Άντε και στα δικά μας.
The SpamMeisters!
It’s now been close to four months since I modified the Akismet plugin to show me the country flag and name for each Spam message received on this blog on the administration pages (using my improved ip2nation database). While it’s been (and was expected to be) a somewhat useless and geeky exercise, it proved that […]