Archive for December, 2006

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Yey! Christmas is here!

As you might have noticed, the flow of articles has decreased here at PWW. No, we didn’t give up on you guys, we’re still thinking about you.
The reason for the lower flow is because both Alex and I are out traveling to visit family for the Christmas. We want to write more, but people tend […]

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Yoople Takes Search One Step Forward

A couple of months ago we wrote that Google’s Searchmash was secretly experimenting with the real next thing in search. Today I noticed that a service similar to what I described in that article has already popped up: Yoople. Here’s what they write:
At Yoople! Project we believe that Web Searches are quite good, but not […]

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

BBC Held Back by Poor Verbal Skills

In a recent writeup, BBC News covers a study by Lancaster University’s Professor Tony McEnery. It was also covered by Ars Technica, who put some attention grabbing spin on it by titling their article “Are iPods shrinking the British vocabulary?”
What the quoted study claims is that an excessive focus on technology is turning teenagers into […]

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Poor Man’s IP-KVM (kind of)

(Warning. This is a quite complex article that requires fairly sophisticated sysadmin/unix-skills. If you don’t have this, this article will probably make you really confused.)
Often when working for small companies, the IT-budget is very limited. Therefore you can probably forget about those awesome gadgets you drawl over in the sysadmin-magazines. Well, I’ve been working like […]

Monday, December 11th, 2006

First Credit Card Application Received

Yesterday our first non-government paper was received.
It was from Capital One.
They offered us a credit card.
We rejected their offer.
We do not need to purchase anything on credit at this point.
In particular not on those terms.