rampant stupidity
To my chain letter loving “friends”
Chain letters are not new, they exist for a long time, even before computers were invented. They had a specific target audience and didn’t really bothered that many people. But now when every monkey has a computer and has access to Facebook or an IM application they’re starting to become annoying. Just few minutes ago [...]
Why the internet isn’t a safe source of information
Because there are people out there writing articles like this. Lacking any kind of logic and mixing apples with oranges, the autor does a very poor job of showing the public why Ruby may be better then PHP. Let’s see my ideas about his rants 1) Human-readable code – this mostly depends on developers, as [...]
About iPad and the army of mindless drones
From time to time we see how a product is marketed as something unique, something revolutionary. An expectation for the product is created with careful selection of information that is allowed to leak into the media. People read about the product, they write about the product. A product that doesn’t even hit the stores. But [...]
How to turn off Google Buzz
Google Buzz arrived in our Gmail accounts this week. I must say i’m not a fan of this thing. I like Gmail because it has a fairly good spam filter and because i can easily filter and categorize my mail. My email is very important to me so i like to keep it organized and [...]
Typo3.org hacked – Why storing passwords in plain text is a stupid ideea
I’ve just got an email from typo3.org (where i have an account) informing me that their site was hacked and the users/passwords were stolen. So i should change my passwords on other sites if they are there too. Here is a fragment from the email: ——————————————————- We have to inform you that an unauthorized person [...]
