Archive for July 14th, 2009
Flavour of the moment in computing architecture is the notion of cloud computing. Whenever I see these new terms (well, newish in the case of cloud computing) being bandied about, particularly by the mainstream media, I immediately start to suspect that it’s largely hyperbole and marketing fluff. Cloud computing does not disappoint in this respect. [ READ MORE ]
Seriously, how annoying is blog comment spam? Well, admittedly, not very. But it is bloody irritating. No sooner is a new blog up and running than you can expect a torrent of blog comment spam. The sad thing is that most of this spam is identified immediately by automated spam filters (well, it is on [ READ MORE ]
Interesting and lucid as ever, Carl Sagan is interviewed by Charlie Rose[ READ MORE ]
Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.