Becoming Digital
Friday, September 5th, 2008Whether we want to peek at Brad and Angelina’s twins or carbon date Eva de Naharon, we can do so via digital technology. Nicholas Negroponte puts it quite simply: Everything that can be stored as bits will be stored as bits. Lack of resources, planning and understanding mean that in many parts of the developing world, most local knowledge can’t or won’t survive the transition.
Steaming Piles
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Sometimes you have to destroy the document in order to save it….
Gooooolag
Monday, March 17th, 2008UPDATE: How wrong could I be about the severity of this threat? Very wrong, apparently. I haven’t confirmed it yet, but it’s hard to imagine how this week’s mass server hack could have happened without tools like the one described below. I’ll write more about this in this week’s column….
Heh, cute:
Cult of the Dead [...]
Web Standards - A Rant
Monday, May 1st, 2006It’s very common on Slashdot and other, er, technical fora, to see people make assertions like the following:
“IE extensions [of existing standards] have proven to be a very good thing for the web overall. It has always been IE that has pushed the limits of dynamic web pages through the inclusion of similar extensions (primarily [...]