Category Archives: Technology
Facebook Chat adds XMPP support
Today it showed up on Slashdot that Facebook Chat is now available using your favorite XMPP/Jabber client. This is great news. Finally people will be able to use Facebook Chat without having to deal with the (admittedly clever but still … Continue reading
On Link Spam
Somehow the spammers have figured out a way to post spam comments to this blog without getting an email notification sent to me. (Since all comments have to be approved before they appear on the site.) I’m not sure this … Continue reading
Less than 0.01% depleted
Head for the hills, the sky is falling! Or at least, we’re running out of IPv4 address space. In English, that means that if things continue at the present rate in 2 years there will be no more unassigned Internet … Continue reading
Will DNSSEC make SSL CAs superfluous?
For years now we’ve known that DNS is broken. Thankfully, a solution is on the way. DNSSEC provides a layer of security on top of the existing DNS architecture allowing clients to verify that the DNS information they receive has … Continue reading
Down With Twitter, Up with Identi.ca
Those who know me are familiar with my general dislike for Facebook. The same reasoning applies to Twitter as well. The fundamental problem with social networking sites is that they are closed communities. Sure, almost everybody is in them, but … Continue reading
Google Wave
If you haven’t been, you should watch the keynotes from the, currently in progress, Google I/O conference. Keynote 1 covered a lot of features that have been added in HTML 5 and allow much more dynamic and interactive web applications. … Continue reading
On Blogs, From Ozy and Millie
Back when I started this blog I commented a bit on what I thought I would do with it. Would it be a venue for my random thoughts, reviews of things I was interested in, or just one more rehash … Continue reading
How to Program a Million Robots
As part of the Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture Series yesterday I was lucky enough to hear a talk by Peter Lee on his work at CMU on Claytronics. The goal of this project is to develop the technology to build … Continue reading