They actually want bad code

So I was in this huge meeting yesterday, and I got the shock of my life. We were discussing how we're going to go about creating and mar...

Who still watches Television?

So I know a couple of people who every night or so, sit down and watch Television. I find the very thought of it mind boggling. Why would an...

Distributed HTTP

A couple years back, a friend of mine got into an area of research which was rather novel and interesting at the time. He created a website ...

Blogger Spam

If you remember, the other day I had a bit of a meltdown in terms of all the spam I saw piling up over here. I only have ~30 articles here,...

Why online services suck

Does anyone other than me think online services suck? The thing that annoys me the most is language settings. Online service designers one d...

How end users can utilize multicore processors

In recent years, the average desktop/workstation computer has gone from single core to multiple cores. Those of us who do video encoding, co...

State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

About two years ago, I wrote an article titled the " The Sorry State of Sound in Linux ", hoping to get some sound issues in Linux...