Sterlizing Sponge With Microwave; Don’t Forget To Soak

January 26th, 2007 Chinese Communist Party big shot Hu Jintao today announced China's intention to maximise the economic potential of the web, while seeking to "purify the internet environment", Reuters reports. The comments came as the party's politburo met to cast an eye over China's burgeoning internet - boasting 137m registered users at the end of 2006, up by almost a quarter from 2005, according to China Internet Network Information Centre figures released yesterday.

May 16th, 2006 CRM vendors aren't following good CRM techniques themselves, according to a new report from The Customer Respect Group (TCRG). Oh the irony! CRM vendors in the study ignored 27 percent of email inquiries, leading them to score below average-5.6 out of 10, versus 5.7 for all industries-on the Customer Respect Index (CRI).

December 19th, 2008 How miserly is that Windows Vista gives you only one month of trial for a whole damn Operating system? I can understand it for a registry cleaner or an antivirus software. But for an OS, isn't it too low? So here is a legal way to increase it and forget about registering by pay.

December 30th, 2007 Use the command below as root after replacing new-login-name and old-login-name appropriately: usermod -l new-login-name old-login-name For NIS accounts don't forget to run: cd /var/yp make

March 13th, 2009 Okay letting automatic updates wasn't enough. When they finish, you are prompted to restart your computer.

January 14th, 2009 It happened to me just the other day. Someone deliberately got into my Firefox, cracked my login information from security options and surfed to my password secured websites at glory.

January 22nd, 2007 I am using Google Calendar, as an experiment, for my projects. I noticed 5 things, between unprintable curses, which make it seriously dysfunctional as an usable product.

June 29th, 2009 SYDNEY - Parents need not worry if their teens are into social networking sites - they are savvy enough to minimize risks for themselves, according to a recent study. Kerry Mallan, of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and colleagues who interviewed 170 students, found that teens who spend time on social networking sites are savvier than thought.

April 19th, 2005 In response to Kuro5hin's guide on zombie attack survival here is my survival guide against zombie attack. Just wake up.

December 19th, 2008 Windows XP has been the single best thing that Windows has come out with in last 15 years. There have been millions of users who have admired and relied on Windows XP.

April 10th, 2006 The beauty about Java community is that they never shy of creating yet another framework for any new / good idea. You have seen dozens (or more) of dependency injection (IoC) frameworks.

May 14th, 2006 Why doesn't document.getElementById('location').value work as function parameter in Javascript? What does work is: var temp = document.getElementById('location'); temp.value works fine as function parameter. Apparently javascript doesn't like referencing fields directly on functions as in getElementById('location').value as a function parameter.

May 22nd, 2007 In very rare cases I have had complaints when our clients haven't received their plugin within one business day. In all of them the problem was because my email containing the plugin was being flagged as spam by their email filters.

October 18th, 2007 I recently got two interesting comments from a scammer. The comments are very interesting because it preys on the need of people to snoop around other's MySpace account (or life in general) to dupe them of their own account information.

August 26th, 2006 Forbes editor Michael Noer has a very interesting article, based on scientific studies, why it is a very bad idea to marry career women. Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage.