Spam on .edu blogs? From Ars Technica,
Think back to the time when you filled out university applications. Which of the following might have suggested to you that the educational institution in question was not a great choice?
1. Its web site is the world’s worst-looking WordPress page
2. It has been sued by the State of Hawaii [...]

Of all the email services I have tried over the years I must admit my favourite is Google’s Gmail. Microsoft’s new Windows Live Mail is a big improvement over Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail is looking good these days but I love Gmail. The only complaint I have with the service is the appearance of the [...]

Maintaining an online presence can be hard work at the best of times but more often than not it is quite rewarding. I’ve made many friends during my travels through cyberspace and came across some very interesting sites. All of this made me think about the internet in general and how much it has changed [...]

Early reports show that the new Windows XP Service Pack 3 is more than just a patch release and that it may actually boost the overall performance of your system.
Using the OfficeBench benchmarking tool the Devil Mountain Software group showed a 10% increase in performance over Service Pack 2 and more than twice as fast [...]

Since I’m now laid off for the season (it’s difficult to roof in the winter) and I have way too much time on my hands I thought I would take a leisurely cruise through the interwebs and explore the scenery. However I was not satisfied with taking one of the more traditional routes. No, I [...]

I read an interesting post today in Alexa’s official blog called Alexa Data vs. Your Raw Logs in which they describe how Alexa traffic is calculated and what constitutes a visit. In pointing out how your very own server logs may not be giving you an accurate picture, Geoffrey Mack, Alexa product manager states,
Few individuals [...]

There seems to be no shortage of topics covered on the World Wide Web with new niches popping up all the time. Enter Pet Peeves. As you may have guessed the site deals with those ever lovable pet peeves such as talking in a theatre, talking on cell phones while driving and people waiting to [...]

Google’s recent $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick makes me wonder how many people at this very moment are feverishly working on new apps hoping to be bought out by the monolith?

MP Garth Turner has a post up on his blog called Smear in which he complains that the internet has become a vehicle for “character assassination, trash talk, slander and falsehood”. While I would agree with this assessment I would also suggest that it takes two to tango. It seems that there is a lot [...]

Yet more reaction from the followers of the Religion of Peaceâ„¢.

Gangs of pro-Muslim computer hackers have unleashed a withering cyber attack on Danish and Western websites in the past week, escalating their defacement barrage to coincide with dozens of violent street-level demonstrations across the Arab world in protest at the publication of a cartoon depiction [...]