February 10, 2009
An urban legend has it that the first internet server was situated in room 404 of the CERN building. Consequently, this server also produced the first “Not Found” error, which, as the legend claims, was subsequently termed 404 error. The problem is that apparently a room 404 never existed at CERN. I have never been [...]
January 25, 2009
At the present time, a lot of people have a blog (but if you don’t own one yet, you can grab yours here). This is due to the fact that everyone’s point of views are entitled to be published on the web, and to my knowledge what better form of depicting your ideas on the [...]
January 9, 2009
Photo blogs are a secret passion of mine. Every now and then I spend hours clicking through impressions of someone else’s life. Browsing photos is a way to relax and get a glimpse into different worlds. A free vacation for the mind. So let me take you on a short trip and know that it [...]
January 2, 2009
You blog, I blog, everybody blogs and one of the names that stands out in the blog world is WordPress. During the past several years, it has become the main choice for blogs all around the world – including the one that you are reading right now. The main reasons: it’s very good and very [...]
December 27, 2008
In his Twitter post on Christmas Day, Jimmy mentioned Twitblogs so I decided to check it out and look at it further. Twitblogs is a Web-based Twitter client which allows users to post entries with a character count greater than 140. This is good for when you have something more to share (a video embed, [...]
November 21, 2008
Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform, currently hosts over 4.5 million blogs. According to their download counter, they have served just over 3.1 million downloads of their self-hosted blogging software. With nearly 8 million blogs in the wild, it’s easy to see that many content publishers have embraced the platform’s ease of use [...]
November 7, 2008
Once, a focus group was asked about the features they wanted to see in a Microsoft Office Suite. It was found that of all the features they asked for, 9 out of 10 already existed. Reading about it I also thought of a few features of my own. As a freelance writer, I wanted a [...]
November 6, 2008
If you’re a blogger that uses Windows Live Writer and Portable Apps, you’ll be pleased to know that you can have the best of both worlds! Scott Kingery at TechLifeWeb put together a nice tool to make Windows Live Writer portable! You will first need to install Windows Live Writer to obtain all of the [...]
October 27, 2008
You’d be amazed at some of the simple things that people can’t do computer / internet-wise. They can install Linux on their computers or set up a webcam security system but when it comes to simple basic things, their minds go completely blank! So I’ve decided to go “back to basics” for a while, go [...]
October 23, 2008
Even the best blog authors need a little help to spice up their sidebar. While some argue that a plain, white-space inspired sidebar is best, I’ve become used to the little gardens of chicklets that most bloggers cultivate next to their posts. Here are some of the best ones I’ve run into on the web. [...]
