Archives » September, 2008

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Thanks to Gordon – Yet another piece of weekend humor we all need to lighten up our days
BARACK OBAMA : The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change !    The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with [...]

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Domain names that don’t quite pass the litmus test

Or, You named your domain name WHAT???!!!
Thanks a bunch to Jose for these!!!
All of these are legitimate companies that didn’t spend quite enough time to consider how their online name might appear!
These are not made up. Check them out yourself!
1. “Who Represents” is where you can find the name of the [...]

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It’s an odd feeling ….

It’s an odd feeling writing this and remembering exactly where I was and what I was doing on this date exactly 7 years ago today. But worse, I still cringe now when I think back to that day, and the events that have imprinted today’s date so firmly upon my mind.
It was 9/11. That’s the [...]

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Wordpress – Urgent upgrade

The guys over at Wordpress have rolled out an urgent upgrade up to version 2.6.2 to protect against a recent vulnerability which, although difficult to execute, does pose a threat.
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().  With his help we worked around these problems and [...]

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Google launches Chrome

Google have let the cat out of their bag (apparently a little earlier than planned) and announced the up-coming release of their own browser, called Chrome. On the official Google blog, they say:
All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. [...]

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