Nemozen

Where is Africa in this picture?  It's a fraction of the "rest of world" slice.   A bit of history:  Until the lat...

ሰላም ዓለም! Transliteration is is the conversion of a text from one script to another. For example,  typing  something in the Roman alpha...

I just stumbled across this great article on Tracy-Widom distribution . It talks about random matrices and phase shifts.  This reminded m...

Yesterday a door to door salesman from Time Warner Cable came to our door. He was a nice guy so I listened to him even though I've b...

"Net neutrality" a hot topic again these days. Plus ça change, plus ça reste pareil . Given the amount of confusion out there it...

Last year, I came across a post about a very interesting study of CAPTCHA economics  (in fact, this post is a slightly expanded re-post of ...

After procrastinating about it for years I've finally switched this blog to be on my personal domain name (in case you're curious, ...

I made what turned out to be a rather lengthy comment on the latest post at blogmaverick.com wherein Mark Cuban gives advice to Rupert Murd...

Sometimes little things are very telling. In the case of Facebook, one of those things is "Reply-to:"... or rather three of those ...

Continuing with the persotechnomobilephoto upload theme: This past weekend, I finally completed the last step of a very gradual evolu...

I'm forced to recognize that despite making fun of the social networking hype , I do use a number of web things which feed other things ...

Last year my beloved blackberry was stolen... at gunpoint! That was the single most lopsided cost and benefit equation (for all involved) ...

I want my I want my I want my DVRP2P From the first time I heard about Tivo , I expected the obvious next step, which would be gargantuan, t...

One of the cool things about my employer is the concept of 20% time . Basically it's a license to spend a chunk of your time working ...

Note to self: Microsoft files pay-per-use PC patent ... What about Amazon's EC2 and S3 services? I assume they were able to patent some...

I have always been huge fan of eBay. Actually not always. At first I was a fan of Onsale, the first auction site on the net! In fact I bough...

Due to a recent ahem... incident, I stumbled across some old press coverage for Karma Tycoon . Cool! Not just because it's a fun and edu...

pulse, naymz, doostang, fastpitch, ... That is the list of new social networks I've received invitations to join just recently. Some ar...

Golgool is my quick little exercise in creating a Google custom search engine . Check it out at www.semret.org/golgool . For example, a sea...

Aha! Search engine futures by Intrade . One year after Google and wisdom of crowds , the idea is catching on.