What seems to be a new ‘viral’ campaign just launched with a Google ad that leads to this site. It seems to be a promotion for “The Observation Room“, a film by Shep Salusky that pretends to be an educational film by “Western States Continuing Education” supposedly to be “viewed only by mental health professionals [...]

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Ruby on Rails is rightfully gaining traction and respect right along with a rapidly growing developer community. This, due to its being the near-perfect match for developing its `home-turf’ software: database backed web site. However, as pleased as I am with RoR’s success, I’m beginning to note with apprehension as it is increasingly being used [...]

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I’ve written the Google Lab’s spreadsheet team (through their feedback mechanism) with this suggestion but would like to share my idea here as well. Basically, I think there’s only one feature missing that would make Google Spreadsheets the complete Excel killer. What would make it truly an Excel killer is to allow one to reference [...]

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Continued from my previous post, Richi from Richi’Blog analyzes this correctly, I think: Presumably a spammer has taken his list and “cleaned” it against the blue list, then done a diff? Like I say, I’m amazed it’s taken so long. Quite clearly this spammer has only sent this eMail to people that were already on [...]

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I just got the following by eMail, does anyone know how correct this is and whether it actually indicates a compromise of Blue Security’s eMail database? From: GOLDEN HOLLINGSWORTH You are being emailed because you are a user of BlueSecurity’s well-known software “BlueFrog.” http://www.bluesecurity.com/ Today, the BlueSecurity database became known to the worst spammers worldwide. [...]

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Boing Boing’s post regarding the congested intersection in India post at It Rocks Everything (via Hob Gadling), reminded me of an incredible video of a congested intersection in Saigon, Vietnam. (Please ignore the horrible background music…) Bookmark to:

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If you’ve read my previous post, you might have noticed that last paragraph in which I was hinting at the development that might bring back the balance in Democracy. You would have probably guessed that I was referring to blogs. Yes, lowly blogs. For those of you not following closely, blogs, for a while now, [...]

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Greetings and welcome to my new blog. While I am not new to the blogosphere, this blog is the first non-technological one that I will be publishing under my own name. I intend to use this blog as my pulpit and soap-box, it is not for personal stories but rather for political and philosophical thought [...]

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