I wrote about spam comments hitting this blog a while ago. Both spam and spam-fighting tools have come a long way since then. Now a must-have plugin called WP-SpamFree scans all incoming comments and automatically trashes what it regards as spam although I don’t know (nor do I want to know) what the exact algorithm [...]
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Mini reviews of: Be With You (2004) / Love Letter (1995) / A Moment to Remember (2004) When introducing the iTunes Movie Rental service back in 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was quoted as saying “Most of us watch our favourite movies… just once.” I tend to agree, but there are a few good films [...]
One thing I’ve talked a fair bit about with my friends and colleagues lately is blood types. It is true that some people – some “cultures” to be exact – take blood types very seriously. Children in countries such as Japan and Korea, for example, grow with the various personality stereotypes (allegedly) associated with the [...]
For well over the past 72 hours, I’ve had this one tune stuck in my head. I knew it was from my Michael Bublé collection but thought I’d look it up knowing that it was a remake of a hit from many decades ago as are most of his other songs. Compared with the countless [...]
Ars Technica discusses an interesting topic in an article titled ‘Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed’: In 2008, Nicholas Carr took to the pages of The Atlantic to make the provocative case that Google might be “making us stupid.” His basic worry was that a reliance on the Web was rewiring his brain, that [...]
Without me knowing, the number of posts on my blog has passed the 100 mark. I thought I’d gather some current analytics just to mark a small personal occasion. 102 posts over 532 days = 1 post every 5.2 days on average Gap between posts ranging from 0.5 days to 42 days 5 categories, 2 [...]
I have been using Lorem Ipsum for project work a lot lately and it got me thinking: Why is industry-standard dummy text Latin of all languages? Why couldn’t dummy text have meaning? And then I thought of a perfect source of English-language dummy text that is meaningful, true, and even educational. It comes from an [...]
Nokia is certainly no KIA, because, well, it’s all about “Connecting People” and not “More Car for Your Money.” Still, when it comes to pronouncing the name, lots and lots of people insist on what it is not, i.e. no-KIA, as opposed to what it is, i.e. Nokia. Granted, it may be argued that those [...]
I enjoy watching Apple’s Get-a-Mac ads. This particular clip titled “Legal Copy” is my latest favourite. Too bad they don’t release one every week. I enjoy watching those ads not only because they are funny, witty, and creative, but because they all state the fact in amazingly funny, witty, creative ways. Factuality and creativity do [...]
Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP, also known as LAMP, is probably the most cost-effective way of running big and small Internet applications, including this blog. I once mentioned I also have a “staging” blog, an exact replica of the live one, configured on my MacBook. Now that’s MAMP, i.e. Mac OS X instead [...]