I changed my blog hearder with a new image inspired by the a Web 2.0 logo style overlapped on a photo. I got the logo from Web 2.0 Logo Creatr site. It’s a joke but the logos created are pretty cool. Technophilia also uses this Web 2.0 logo. The logo generated for my blog is displayed […]

bLaugh publishes really funny tech comics. There is one on Ajax reproduced below:

TorrentFreak published a review of Allpeers. Allpeers is a Firefox extension designed to share pictures, music and video within Firefox. There is also an interview of Matthew Gertner from Allpeers. Actually the sofware is a Beta but look promissing. In the current version, as reported, you can only share files with people in your buddy list […]

The plain English campaign provides a writting guide called “How to write in plain English”. I found this guide useful as it helps to write better informative text. So this might be valuable for other bloggers to. The advices provided by the guide are:

Keep your sentences short: A clear sentence should have an average sentence […]

I found via Juice Analytics, a very good education web site called Habits of Mind. The web site provides resources for Educators and teachers. The “Habits of Mind” concept has been developed by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick:“A Habit of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON’T know the answer.” So it’s the […]

Anthony Robbins presents in “Unlimited Power” what he calls the seven lies of success. Those ‘lies’ are empowering beliefs that help us to have better reactions in everyday life. They are listed below with some comments:

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it must serve us. You might think about this ‘lie’ if […]

 Sang Shin from Sun Microsystems offers a 10-week online course on AJAX programming. The course started on august 4th but you may still register here. The material provided is of great quality. The course description says:
What is it  like to take this course online? 

Online attendees of this course are expected to do the course work as […]

Last week, I discovered a very useful software called Workrave. This software assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). But you may also use it to increase productivity and stop procrastination. Basicaly, Workrave is a timer, that will alert you for micro-pauses or long breaks. You may use long breaks to […]

A nice flash web site has been created to promote Rob Bryanton’s book “Imagining the tenth dimension”. The introduction states:
“In string theory, physicists tell us that the subatomic particles that make up our universe are created within ten spatial dimensions (plus an eleventh dimension of “time”) by the vibrations of exquisitely small “superstrings”. The average […]

When writting my previous post I found some interesting documents about TOR, Bittorrent and more generally peer to peer anonymity. All this reading helped my to understand that using Bittorrent with TOR for anonymous peer to peer doesn’t make sense. In my previous post I suggested to use TOR to route trafic between trackers and […]