Archive for the 'Computing' Category

Just-a-View 1.0 Released!

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Just-a-View is a project I did in my spare time - a JavaScript-based photo album viewer. It supports a number of nifty features, such as permalinking, slideshows, and precaching. It’s lightweight, fast, and free.
And convenient, too. Just-a-View is packaged as a Picasa web template, so your computer can do all the grunt work for you. [...]

Terrorism 2.0: Is the U.S. prepared?

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Just about a year ago, the Baltic state of Estonia went offline. Botnets, immense networks of hijacked computers, poured billions of hits onto Estonian government and commercial websites, and the Estonian servers, attempting to shoulder many times their normal load, gave up. Tensions were elevated-Estonians blamed the Russian government, who naturally denied involvement. For nearly [...]

Computer Follies, part 1

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Computers are one of the greatest inventions of humanity, designed by some of humanity’s most brilliant people. With all due respect, though, their brainchildren, while enormously useful, have been subjected to some serious pain due to developers’ negligence. Here are a few examples from my personal experience.

Canon’s ZoomBrowser software for its digital cameras is truly [...]