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Last week, Yahoo! discontinued Geocities; the free web hosting service. Although Geocities hadn’t been relevant since 1998, I’m still a bit sad at the thought of a piece of Web history coming to an end. I have fond memories of Geocities, before it was owned by Yahoo!
Back in 1995, the Internet came to [...]

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Lucifer is putting on a sweater – I’m posting something technical again!
Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 last week with loads of new features like the zippy TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. It also includes another feature that I don’t think I can ever warm up to – a revamped NSS module that causes ridiculously long launch times [...]

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I recently attended a friend of mine’s Stag and Doe in my hometown of Timmins, Ontario. Like many young people from Northern Ontario, I graduated from university and relocated to a city with more opportunities that are applicable to my field of study. As such, I make the 800 kilometre trek from Kitchener [...]

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Amazon is now shipping version 2 of their Kindle ebook reader. Many of the blogs and Twitter-ers that I follow are espousing the latest Kindle and mention how quick they are to order one of the $350 USD little gadgets to “try it out”.
I know I’m not part of the blogging and Twitter elite [...]

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Today, a once-in-eternity event happens. On this very day – February 13, 2008 – at exactly 6:31:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time), 1,234,567,890 seconds will have elapsed since 12:00:00 AM (UTC) on January 1, 1970.
What’s so special about January 1, 1970, you ask? Officially, it’s the moment that Unix time began. The Unix [...]

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It’s a new year and that means that I’ve recently returned from my annual Holiday trip to visit the in-laws in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. At Dena’s father’s house, which is off the beaten path, broadband (minus satellite) is not an option. Dial-up, and rather over-priced for that matter, is the only option.
Web technology [...]

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All things popular on the Web up until this point in time has been captured perfectly in this single video created by Dan Meth. Get your junk-food-for-the-mind fix with this ode to Internet pop culture here:

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This is a reminder to myself. The next time I need to download my favourite packet sniffer, I shan’t look for Ethereal anymore, for Ethereal is now known as Wireshark. I’ve used Ethereal so much in the past, whether to track down a Russian spammer/WaReZ hocker or to detect a rogue worm running [...]

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Last week, it was reported that approximately 60 GMail users had all of their email accidentally deleted (Dena and I weren’t affected, thank goodness). Then no more than 24 hours ago, a vulnerability was discovered in that a malicious website can swipe your email address from a cookie if you’re logged into GMail at [...]

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TSN has been providing video footage of recaps and highlights for the various sports in the “TSN Broadband” area of their website for a while now, and they’re not the only television network doing this. However, one of the greatest displays of technology and the use of the Internet is that TSN is broadcasting [...]

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Skype will charge for SkypeOut calls as of the start of 2007. It’s a shame that they decided to charge for it now, since I liked not having a long distance plan, but it was fairly obvious that it was going to happen. Even so, their rate of $30/year is still cheaper than [...]

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To follow up something that I posted last week, there’s a project going on at the U of T, called Psiphon. It’s goal is to allow those who live in countries in which the government restricts Internet access, unfettered rights to the Web. From what I can tell, Psiphon provides proxy access to [...]

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