Skip to content

{ Monthly Archives } November 2007

Web 2.0: Introduction

At the CSW XML Sum­mer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Tran­si­ents track. I’ve been pon­der­ing whether to write it up as a series of post­ings or not; there’s so much hype and inform­a­tion around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I […]

2007 11 06 Presentations
Technology Comments (1)

Saturn and Earth

If you haven’t seen the pho­tos from the Cas­sini spacecraft’s trip to Sat­urn, you should. In Saturn’s Shadow shows pho­tos shot in Saturn’s shadow, screen­ing the cam­era from the sun’s glare. That little blue dot in the upper left corner of PIA 08329? That’s the earth. Link from Present­a­tion Zen.

Tagged ,
2007 11 05 General Comments (0)

Customizing Google

For those, like me, who are some­what privacy-oriented, and use Fire­fox as their browser, I recom­mend using the Cus­tom­ize Google exten­sion. I set it up to use https for access­ing Google docs, reader, and cal­en­dar, and to anonym­ize the Google ID for search­ing. You can also anonym­ize the Google ana­lyt­ics cookie, which I’m not doing […]

2007 11 04 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)