I do not profess to understand the US attitude towards gambling. Part of it is the Protestant loathing of an inherently sinful activity. Certainly in recent decades US gambling has been quite tightly controlled. Casinos were only allowed in a handful of places until the advent of the Native American casinos on reservation land. At [...]
Chaos Manor Nothing is simple. This email came in this morning from “root”: Dear Client, We are in the process of preparing to migrate your account from it’s current server in our Seattle, WA datacenter to our datacenter in Lindon, UT. We have a schedule of migrations which can be found on our status blog [...]
In geekspeak, “html is stateless”. In other words, it has no memory. Html, which orignally stood for “hypertext mark-up language”, was one of the foundations of the web. It is the way of encoding a basic web page so that it can be read by a browser. The important point is that it is “platform [...]
I gave my main thoughts on FB in an earlier post. It is attractively designed. The key application is the Wall, which provides a stream of messages, images and videos from your “FB friends”. I am not sure what the average number of “friends” is for a reasonably active FB user, probably several hundred. Most [...]
As part of my experiments with Twitter I added more than 350 people from Jack Schofield’s public list of UK public relations types dealing with tech. That was a mistake, I have now discovered. Tweets are coming in at the rate of several a minute. I also realized that I should have been more discriminating. [...]
