stuff on internet

shifting attention

Monday, 27 August 2007 10:16 pm by noel
posted in internet, opinions, stuff

… online poll of consumers’ digital media and entertainment habits, sponsored by IBM, showed that more people are spending more time Web surfing than channel hopping of late…
– informationweek, Internet’s Killing The TV Star
that sentence says a lot about today’s generation.
hmmm. i sound old.
most of everyone is connected in some way or another. wired. wireless. [...]

y! photos closing

Saturday, 25 August 2007 6:52 am by noel
posted in internet, opinions

its always a sad thing for me when something that’s been there a while will go away or close.

i hardly used yahoo! photos. the interface is a bit awkward and storage space is a bit on the small side. but it is, or was, there.
in the end, i think its a good decision on yahoo!’s [...]

been busy

Saturday, 18 August 2007 11:43 am by noel
posted in firewall, internet, linux, stuff

ach. its been a whole while. i have been kept busy.
we moved. from one house to another. not an easy thing to do. no internet for a couple of weeks. then there’s school opening.
clark connect, smoothwall and rsync have all been keeping me quite occupied as well. offsite backup is all i can tell [...]

warning: spam is up

Monday, 19 February 2007 7:05 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, support

i’ve been getting a lot more spam for the past two days. something’s up. so:

don’t open any e-mail from anyone you do not know.
don’t click on that link from an e-mail unless you’re expecting that e-mail
be wary of e-mails even if it appears to be from someone you know
be wary of e-mails with small file [...]

txt spk (text speak)

Friday, 26 January 2007 12:05 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, opinions, software, support

hi gud am,jst wnt 2 ask,i cnt cend email,d mesge says,cnt cnd bcoz d server dnt wnt 2 acpt d sender,wat 2 do,. tnx.
i had to read this text message three times, slowly, before i “got” its meaning. in short, its a call for help.
this is a sample of txt spk or “text speak” — [...]