A Peculiar Blog

The primaries are over, the conventions are still yet to come (though I don’t see the point of having them since the outcome of each is already predetermined) and all parties are now focusing on the general election in November. Things are barely getting started and already the fear tactics have begun:
LIEBERMAN: U.S. MAY [...]

Here’s an interesting note, According to an interview with John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, open source has effectively killed the software developer tools market. Apparently, in today’s open source software world, there’s a lot of people that have become set in their ways when it comes to the development tools they use. [...]

I’ve just read a BBC News item that reveals a Canadian privacy group, “The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic”, has listed 22 violations of Canadian privacy law.
Basically they say that Facebook is collecting information about it’s users and then sharing that information without their permission. Not only that, but apparently they’re not [...]

Whether you’ve got a traditional website, a blog, forum or some fancy web 2.0 site the one thing that they all have in common is the need for webhosting. Webhostingrating.com provides information and ratings of top web hosting providers.
However it doesn’t stop there. There is also a wealth of web hosting articles covering [...]

www.logoyes.com is a logo design service unlike any ordinary “business card” site that I’ve run across before.
The card pictured here is an example of what you can custom design on their site. Drawing from a huge library of stock images and doing a bit of very easy editing, I was able to create this [...]

Wanna see something funny? Take a look at the stair lift website for Jameson Medical, Inc. Once the page loads, hit your “Page Down” key once.
You’ll be greeted with an animated .gif of a lady on a stair lift chair, up she goes, then it cuts to a wide shot of a roller [...]

Looking to inject another bit of humor here, I ran across this little gem on YouTube. It’s Pepsi’s 2008 Super Bowl ad. The YouTube Description reads:
A unique and hilarious commercial illustrating a popular joke in the deaf community. Created and enacted by deaf members of the Pepsico workforce, EnAble.
I have to agree, it’s [...]

Today’s society is getting more and more subject to every kind of tracking you can imagine, from GPS systems in our phones and cars to satellite maps that can be zoomed close enough to make out your house from orbit. The invasiveness of it all just keeps growing.
One of the next things coming down [...]

We can now raise a cheer for a group of a group of bright people in the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, Germany along with colleagues from the University of Virginia have succeeded in cracking the encryption scheme used on the Mifare Classic RFID chip sold by NXP.
It turns out that the proprietary encryption scheme [...]

Not only are they snooping on the browsing habits of customers, it’s going a lot farther than that. First there’s an article on dailymail.co.uk where BT, One of the UK’s largest ISPs, admits to spying on 36,000 customers. The article tells how BT chose 36,000 of it’s users for a trial run in [...]