About a month ago I praised Chromium browser (and Google Chrome incarnation of it). It’s fast, slick, and like Firefox has a gadzillion extensions. Unfortunately, I switched back to Mozilla Firefox for now. And as much as I’d like to use Chrome, there is an issue that annoys me enough not to – profile corruption. … Continue reading Back to Mozilla Firefox
Jason Kottke links to a post in Ars Technica with an argument that people shouldn’t use ad blocking browser plugins when visiting their favorite sites. The argument is as old as ad blocking browser plugins. And I most often here exactly that side of the story – the site that you love depends on the … Continue reading Blocking ads on your favorite sites
Via this Slashdot post I came across an excellent blog rant – Whatever happened to programming (and the follow-up). Subject in focus – modern programming, and how boring it have become (mostly). Today, I mostly paste libraries together. So do you, most likely, if you work in software. Doesn’t that seem anticlimactic? We did all … Continue reading Whatever happened to programming
I came across this excellent chart at Omniture web site. While it is mostly aimed at marketing people, it’s still pretty useful for everyone on the ewb to have an overview of which social networks work better for which purposes.
Cyprus Mail runs an article with some statistics of drug use in Cyprus. It is said that drug use doubled over the last three years. That’s not too good. But the report itself is hard to understand – quotes say one thing and numbers say another. For example: “Cannabis is not so fashionable anymore among … Continue reading Drug use doubled over last three years in Cyprus