According to most predictions – including mine – the next generation of the Internet will be three-dimensional, fully immersive, a multi-media smorgasbord for the senses.
I love the fact that there are always two kids of everything in the world… the binary system is so neat and orderly.
There are two kinds of grammarians: the prescriptivists and the descriptivists. The prescriptivists lay down the rules, then want other people to follow them. When someone splits an infinitive, for example, or ends [...]
My theory is, in China, the higher up you are the less work you do — poor people on farms, in mines work the hardest.
If you’re unemployed you scramble the hardest to feed yourself and family.
In the US and Europe, the poorest people don’t work at all, get subsidies, the highest-paid people work super [...]
In the past, wars were fought over resources. The definition of power was the ability to collect a great deal of physical wealth — land, gold, slaves — and order people to work on your behalf to get you more.
Two rulers would go to war and the winner would have more of everything at the [...]
Back in the old days … 2004 … we had to buy our foreign-language books in hotel shops — and had as many as five different novels to choose from, if we were lucky, right next to the tour guides and “Your first 1,000 Chinese characters” and “Chinese in 1 million easy lessons.”
There were fake [...]
A Massachusetts court signed off on my divorce last week - after about three years of separation in which my ex and I weren’t in the States long enough at the same time to get it done.
This means that, on January 30, I officially become Maria Victoria Korolov again. And I am never changing my [...]
I’ve finally found a system that works for keeping my inbox at a manageable size (one screen or less), a variation of the GTD system.
Step 1: Do I need to respond to this email?
Many emails are sent to me for my reference — or are spam. If they’re spam, I lick Gmail’s spam button and [...]
I checked out SquareSpace — nice web interface, but seems a little lacking in functionality.
Then Ottawa-based web guy Gesman pointed me to a WordPress design site specifically for magazines and news organizations.
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for - thanks, Gesman!
The designs are gorgeous and don’t look like blogs at all. I particularly love [...]
Today (well, it’s after midnight, so it was yesterday) I attended a Meetup of the Northampton Web Developers/ Web Designers Meetup Group.
Excellent, excellent meeting. Many web developers there — most looking like young, Silicon Valley Web 2.0 types. Mostly a male crowd, four Macs to one PC in terms of the laptop ratio.
The presenters [...]
Facebook Says China Not Blocking Access
Facebook said late Tuesday that it was not aware of any blocking of its sites in China, despite reports of outages from cities around China.
By Steven Schwankert
July 01, 2008 — IDG News Service —
Facebook said late Tuesday that it was not aware of any blocking of [...]
