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Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

(April 28th, 2010)

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer ...

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The wheels of justice

(April 26th, 2010)

I thought twice before coming here and write two or three sentences. But sometimes two or three sentences is all you have. I had to do it: Apple Inc., you rock! #

If you want to be a “journalist”, act as one. As ...

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Paradox of the Active User

(April 26th, 2010)

The “paradox of the active user” is a concept introduced by John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson (then at IBM, now at Penn State) to explain a common observation in several user studies done at the IBM User Interface Institute in the early 1980s ...

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Host hunting

(November 24th, 2009)

I had had all my websites —this one, and many other test ones, etc—, plus my self-managed DNS on Server Beach (now part of Peer1) for a very long time. They all reside on a dedicated server, which has, sadly, reached it’s end of life (EOL). More...

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Did you know?

(October 7th, 2009)

From Shift Happens. I really would like to have the time to research the statistics. Yet, many of the things on this video we have, in a way, experienced it ourselves. See and tell me what you think, if you may. There is a previous video, from ...

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Avoid Bright House if you can

(October 5th, 2009)

I live in Central Florida. In my area, if I want cable TV and Internet, I have no choice but to use Bright House services. The competition is satellite TV/Internet and/or DSL (for Internet). Why am I recommending to avoid Bright House, if you can? It is simple: their ...

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Android on the horizon

(October 1st, 2009)

It is decided. Sometime, on the horizon, on the not so near future (that is for sure!) I will be switching my mobile telephone. And when I do, it will for sure be to an Android based one. I would lie if I say I do not want ...

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