Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

How to Write Like A Wanker, hehe. via Kasia

Microsoft’s masterplan to screw phone partner – full details – via IRC

Short Words to Explain Relativity – in words of four letters or less. hmm!

Why IE is sometimes faster – it doesn’t follow the usual TCP/IP rules. This kind of sounds like persistent connections to me, and Apache supports that. When a client makes a HTTP1.1 request to an appropriately configured Apache or many other brand HTTP server, the server sends data and can then half-shutdown the connection to the client. That means that subsequent requests go through faster. This might be what he discovered but I could be wrong!

The first issue of php|architect is out and downloadable for free.

Thanks Mark for your kind comments!

Via the slashdot discussion on The Growth of Picture Phones:
Dogbert’s videophone
The Guardian Survival guide 2003
The Transparent Society – Will Technology Force us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

The Return of the King Protest – We feel the makers of the LOTR films are using the death of Elvis Presley… (via Second Sun.Org)

10 Big Myths about copyright explained – via photoSig

FAQ (and not so FAQ) – One Space or Two? – via the CSS-D mailing list.