Tag Archives: Blogs

Tackling spam.

Let’s face it: the spammers are so sophisticated these days it’s only a matter of years before they’re identically copying “real” people, “real” content. One of the simplest ways of doing this is to simply scan for identical blog entries, … Continue reading

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Apple versus Adobe.

The iPad won’t have Flash support. I giggle when I write this. It’s not news, at all, I’m just slow on the pick-up. Adobe person on Adobe’s blog reacts to this. A guy at TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) responds … Continue reading

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Quoting, on culture.

From Rock, Paper, Shotgun: “Goodbye The Silver Lining. Our culture is formed by the sharing of ideas. Throughout history, for millennia, every piece of art, music, literature and entertainment has been the result of a worldwide collaboration. It’s been an … Continue reading

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Blog in Japanese.

For those of you interested in that sort of thing (read: any of my Japanese speaking friends), I’ve now set up a blog in Japanese here. I understand the folly of my ways, but I feel that there’s so much … Continue reading

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The Very Wide World Wide Web.

I find myself thinking “so how many cool new things am I missing out on today, simply due to ignorance?” quite often these days. I don’t nearly spend as much time with the computer as I used to, and the … Continue reading

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Blogs.

When blogs first came around, I didn’t get it. At all. I mean, who other than self-important, self-absorbed people would sit and write about themselves? I made a livejournal blog at some point, which I promptly forgot about, then I … Continue reading

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