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Mark Cuban knows what he is talking about: Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because of copyright violations. “They are just breaking the law,” Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet [...]

Almost a year ago Google released their own RSS aggregator entitled Google Reader, but it wasn’t well received. It was heavily Ajaxified, and has a very flashy interface. However a flashy interface does not always bring good usability. It was slow, cumbersome, and always felt “getting into your way” when you tried to skimp through [...]

As Amanda has blogged about John Dickson‘s talk at the City Bible Forum this week, on the servant hood of Christ, I think I should also share what I have learnt. The talk was around the incomprehensible act of Jesus in Philippians 2:5-11. While he was in the very nature of God in verse 6, [...]

6 years ago when I started blogging (on phpWebSite platform which somehow I did not keep any of my old entries), there ain’t much to read on the net. Well, for me at least — my daily readings are Slashdot and the Heralds, that’s about it. I thought I’ve got all the news that matters. [...]

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.com has released VIP Hosting, where you get to host your blog on WP.com’s load balancing failover-ready hardware/infrastructure, using your own domain name, and there will be dedicated system administrators looking after network, hardware, database, web server and installation of WordPress to ensure everything is always up. Cost? $500 to set it [...]

Alan Cox the Linux Kernel hacker has been cheap and bought a 3rd party battery for his IBM ThinkPad 600, and caught the latest trend of exploding laptops. The images look very scary — and all these could happen to the notebook that I am typing this blog entry right now!! Looks like it is [...]

YouTube: White & Nerdy (Weird Al) — this new video is just funny, and even got a Wikipedia entry for it. Here’s the lyrics. Well, I gotta say I am glad that I am not white nor nerdy :) My other favourite Weird Al MTV is Saga Begins. Saw it 6 years ago, and you [...]

I really enjoyed talks in City Bible Forum, and over the past 3 weeks, John Dickson has been giving talks from his book “A Spectator’s Guide to Jesus”. I’ve always managed to learn something from those talks, and yesterday from the talk about the divinity of Jesus (i.e. is Jesus God?), John used the parallel [...]

Python 2.5 has been released, and here are some of the highlights and new features. I have especially been looking forward to PEP 342, PEP 343 and SQLite3 becoming standard package. Now, when is Python 3000 coming?

It was on wp-hackers last week, and I have seen it numerous times before. If you are a good design artist, and CSS is your thing, then the best way to promote a website might be by adding links to your freely distributed themes for the content management systems of the day. Here are the [...]

Virtuozzo: Xen, Microsoft and VMWare are reinventing the wheel with their hypervisor/para-virtualization technology, doing the things operating system has always been doing. Essentially, the hypervisor is a lot like an operating system. It shares CPU, memory and I/O between Virtual Machines — it includes an SMP scheduler, memory manager, I/O subsystems, plus its own driver. [...]

When I was getting through my feeds today, I spotted this comment, in the context of Joel Spolsky discounting the enterprise-readiness of Ruby-on-Rails and David Heinemeier Hansson responded with an attack. Spolsky writes well, but I find the self-promotion for Fog Creek more than a tad irritating. He makes absurd claims about hiring only rock-star [...]

Bert Armijo or 3tera wrote about Trendmapper, and in his opening sentence, he wrote: The beauty of the Internet is software becomes so easy to use that you can hundreds of useful little services without thinking about them… until they’re gone. The idea of Software as a Service (SaaS) holds the key to Web 2.0. [...]

Just bought a programming related book on-line. It was released in Q2 2006 so I did not consider the second hand book market. I went straight to the oracle asking where can I find it in on-line bookshops in Australia. Only a handful of shops returned, and LSL Australia is around $10 cheaper than the [...]

Thanks to Scott Adams for gracing us with such an insightful remark from Dilbert: “Success is the happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the time you tell a woman what you did.” Feel free to substitude “woman” with XYZ who always seems to always have something negative to say when [...]