December 2008
10 posts
How do big web sites roll out new versions? →
Many fantastic answers to how large web sites might perform software and hardware upgrades. From Hacker News
Telkom really should wither and die
I haven’t had a phone line nor, as a consequence, ADSL since sometime last Friday (12 Dec 2008) and they still haven’t fixed it. I thought maybe the line was cut due to nonpayment of the latest invoice. The invoice amount was higher than usual due to the transfer to a new house, but only needed to be paid on the 29th of Dec. I paid it anyway on the 15th and still no phone line. It was...
Forget trying to use a camera with hard drive... →
The kiss of deaf →
Chinese girl left partially deaf in one ear after a kiss. The prognosis for a full recovery is good.
Your dreams will soon be risking exposure →
This kind of hacking is not new: Van Eck phreaking has been around since the early 1980’s and, recently, we dicovered that you could pick up the electro-magnetic radiation unique to every keypress on a standard wired keyboard thereby recreating what is being typed. What is new is the ability to recreate an image residing in our mind’s eye. Our thoughts may not be private for much...
tumblr raises $4.5 million →
Oh good, tumblr isn’t going the way of Pownce. Congrats tumblr team, I hope you can make a business out of it soon
50 common mispronunciations →
Number 50 is my pet peeve: vehicle. Oh, there are actually 51 in the list, go figure.
Pownce is shutting down
I rather enjoyed Pownce. It is a very attractive and quite clever social blogging site. I guess they couldn’t make enough money and decided to move the technology and the developers over to another company. Pownce is offering an export function so that you can export all your messages before their doors shut. Read about the exciting change on the official Pownce Blog
Window Pong →
It didn’t work on Firefox, but did on IE 6. It requires you to allow popups…. Awesome nonetheless.