As I discovered earlier today, if you accidentally leave your Google account signed in on another computer, anything that is searched for on that computer using Google will be recorded in your Google account’s Personalized Search Search History. But what if you didn’t just leave your account signed in accidentally, but actually managed to remotely [...]
Here’s a good example of why the “if you’re not doing anything wrong, why worry?” argument against privacy invasion is useless and misguided. Just because you aren’t doing anything illegal, does that mean you want your family to be able to see what you’ve been searching for without you realising? Of course not — privacy [...]
Well, only just after that post it looks like I’ll have to challenge Daniel to use the new Whereis interface and tell me it’s not better, because it’s a LOT better thanks to some AJAX kinda stuff (and of course the new graphics that bring it well into 2002 ). Clicking to re-centre the map [...]
Daniel tonight told me that he hadn’t yet seen a good implementation of an ajax application, that they’re always too slow and the delay bugs him. I really don’t know what he’s talking about so maybe I should have clarified, although I think it’s possible that he’s used ajax on sites that aren’t so obvious [...]
Something tonight pointed me to Guy Kawasaki’s reasonably new blog titled “Let the Good Times Roll”, I think it was Om Malik. Om mentioned how people have wondered why Guy hasn’t started a blog before, and I wonder the same ’cause his blog is excellent reading. Who is he? Well, just an ex-Stanford and UCLA [...]
I’ve just received an email from Alex Tew of milliondollarhomepage fame about his site. (yeah, I bought some pixels back in September). Looks like the DDoS story is true, here’s what Alex had to say about it: I’m pleased to report that The Million Dollar Homepage is back online after almost 6 days of downtime [...]
I really need to get on the Ruby (and more specifically, Rails) bandwagons. I mean, with quotes like these: It takes about half or less code to put my stuff together in RoR than it did in PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, etc. I use to worry about giving my client an estimate and then running over [...]
Over some tasty lasagne with some friends last week, the conversation somehow prompted me to bring up Telstra’s new corporate blogs by a few of their employees as part of their attempts at friendly openness on nowwearetalking.com.au. My enthusiasm was dampened when the response was something like “what, so a bunch of employees have online [...]
Google has released a web-based RSS reader and aggregator that is pretty nice. You can read all posts from all the feeds you subscribe to in a chronological order, or you can just read from a specific feed. It has lots of AJAX and a pretty smooth interface with shortcut keys that really speed up [...]