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Archive for the 'Personal' Category

15 Mar

The Great Global Warming Swindle: Hot or Not?

Back in December, I posted a brief review of Al Gore’s documentary feature ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘, a movie that has since won several awards including an Oscar or 2 (or 3 - I wasn’t paying close attention). This evening I watched a video on YouTube called ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle‘ thanks to the recommendation [...]

18 Feb

The human brain is pretty amazing: Who needs ‘Leetspeak’?

While setting up an installation of Joomla! this evening, I found this very interesting bit of default ‘filler’ content:
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13 Feb

Plug for Foxmarks plugin

Occasionally I come across an app or plugin that dramatically improves my work flow. The Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer is one such plugin. I know there are other similar apps out there, for instance Google offers an online bookmark syncing service called Google Bookmarks and the browser plugin Google Browser Sync for Firefox. Unlike Google Browser [...]

01 Dec

An Inconvenient Truth: Can PowerPoint save the planet?

I watched former US Vice President Al Gore’s film about Global Warming - ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘ - the other day and thought I should give a quick review. Aside from a bit of pandering, a fair amount of posturing and a liberal helping of product placement, the film ultimately does an excellent job of clearly [...]

16 Nov

Viability of ccTLD’s like .tv and .fm

I have been working for some time on an internet startup/project and am currently considering how to brand our product. Because the product is largely web based, we need a catchy, relevant domain name. Ideally the product name and the domain name will be one and the same, or at least similar. As I am [...]

27 Sep

ActiveWords and SeaFUG - Thank You!

I would like to say thank you to the ActiveWords team for making such useful software and for providing me with a complimentary copy. I use it everyday and everyone I’ve recommended it to has been equally impressed. I know I’ve only scratched the surface of what the app can do, but even so, it [...]

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