SUP buys LiveJournal

Russian (or, Russian born) company SUP acquires LiveJournal blog service from Six Apart.  The two companies have been working together for the last six month or so, with SUP “taking care” of the Russian users of LiveJournal, which are an impressive 28% chunk of population. How do I feel about this?  Here are some points … Continue reading SUP buys LiveJournal

More polish with WordPress plugins

I am still polishing a few things here and there on this site. If you don’t follow my Twitter stream, then here is a quick update for you since I wrote about it the last time. Installed 404 Notifier plugin. When somebody hits a non-existing page on my site (Error 404 – Not Found), I … Continue reading More polish with WordPress plugins

Maxim’s upcoming surgery

Yesterday I briefly mentioned that Maxim is about to have a surgery.  That was very inconsiderate of me.  I got a lot of people worried without providing any details whatsoever.   And for this I want to apologize. Thank you all who called and wrote. Here are some more details just to lift that burden of … Continue reading Maxim’s upcoming surgery

Growing technological expectations

While reading through this post which discusses several office applications and their approach to group collaboration and offline editing, I once again got amazed as to how fast our expectations of technology grow.  Just think about the complexity of the problem scope – synchronizing a document which has been edited by serveral people, some of … Continue reading Growing technological expectations

How much time does a person need to learn HTML?

Here is a question for technical people among your – how much time does a person need to learn HTML? The reason I am asking is that I gave to one of our newer colleagues a whole weekend (from Friday evening until Monday morning ) to do it.  I promised to unleash all my fury … Continue reading How much time does a person need to learn HTML?