In an article titled "Interview with a link spammer", The Register gives us an insight into link spamming (distinct from email spamming) through an anonymous interview with a link spammer who does this for a living (and makes a very good living at that!).  Reading the article is a bit like driving past a motor…

Ever since I saw the poster for this movie depicting Keanu Reeves in front of a dark pair of wings, I have been curious about this movie based on the DC Comics/Vertigo series "Hellblazer".  The site contains some awesome images and the story really appeals to me too.  Unfortunately the movie hasn’t received very positive…

Elise Bauer has conducted a couple studies of market share in the blogosphere.  I originally found this story on Scoble’s Link Blog and tracked it back to Blogging Roller and, in turn, to Threadwatch.  From there I did what any other Google nut would do and I ran a search for the original study.  I…

The Seattle Times has reported on a study that suggests that Linux is less secure than Windows.  The test used a Windows 2003 Server machine and a Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 machine, both of which were "running databases, scripting engines and Web servers (Microsoft’s on one, the open source Apache on the other)".  According…

The Constitutional Court launched its new website today and it is a beautiful site!  If you don’t know what the Constitutional Court is, read this: This court, the highest in South Africa on constitutional matters, was born of the country’s first democratic Constitution in 1994. In an acclaimed new building at Constitution Hill, the 11…

Metafilter has reported on a series of predictions of a catastrophic disaster in North America which was made by a largely South African group of psychics, healers and other esoterically minded people.  Apparently the primary psychic, SilverJade is a resident of Johannesburg, my hometown.  The Free Internet Press has also carried this story which begins…

On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone. Amazing!  There isn’t much more I can say about this.  I am so proud to be one of those 25 million people using such an awesome browser and the product of such an open movement.

In a recent newsletter, the online recruitment company, CareerJunction, advised its subscribers as follows: In the near future CareerJunction will only be supporting Internet Explorer 6 and above. If you are not using a supported version you can upgrade your browser for free! I was completely taken aback by this statement.  With all the recent…