Review: Adventure
Adventure by Jack London My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book is intense and fast-paced; fun, relatively short, quick to read, interesting mostly because of the story itself and not so much for the characters in it, who hardly …
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A free iPhone (for 10 minutes)
Ever more often, businesses want their website to make a good impression on mobile devices. And they are right! Mobile web surfers have already become an important segment, and as a user of mobile internet I can personally attest that …
Review: Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Crime and Punishment” may appear depressing at a first glance, but actually I think Dostoevsky’s view of human nature is rather optimistic here. Among the many subjects tackled …
Review: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard My rating: 4 of 5 stars In this book, Murray Rothbard successfully busts the common myths about the legitimacy and necessity of the State. However, there are some points …
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Stupid online installers
I find it pretty annoying when I download an installer for an application, then run said installer, only to find out that it’s just a tool that downloads the actual installer. Seriously, why? Why can’t I just directly download the …
SSDs are totally worth it!
A few years ago I suffered my first hard drive failure. Not a nice thing to go through, but at least my drive was nice enough to give me a good advance warning. I noticed Windows was taking much longer …
Who you are (according to Google)
Somewhere in the the depths of Google there is a little known link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads. There you can control the targeting of the ads they show you. That’s interesting. Even more interesting is that on this page you can see what …
a Google Reader alternative
Our friends from Google announced that Reader will be retired after a few months. Blah. Their excuse is that usage has declined and there’s generally no sense to keep it running. That’s hard to believe, because Google Reader is used …
Web usage trends for 2013
A few interesting things emerge when we look at Statcounter Global Stats for the past year… Google Chrome’s popularity is continuing to increase at the expense of other browsers. It has become #1 and is basically gaining more strength every …
Embedding images directly in your HTML for fun and profit
For the uninitiated, a URI (also called, informally, a URL) is a string of characters used to identify any kind of information resource. Most often, you’ll see these things when browsing the web. The URI scheme is basically the first …
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