Archive for the 'General' Category

Cloud computing vs Web 2.0

The economic meltdown that swamped the US and the rest of the world particularly at the end of 2008 has not only reshaped the financial landscape, but also impacted the Web landscape in many ways. All in, 2008 was such a tumultuous year, that the past year’s events will likely continue to set the tone [...]

How to stop telemarketers from calling

You are very busy in your home office going through some important papers and the cell phone on your table starts ringing, demanding your attention. You may expect it to be someone you know or some other important phone call. You pick it up and on the other end, a smiling telemarketer starts ramming their [...]

Unable to safely remove my external drive

I have an older 80 GB hard drive that I’ve just relegated as an external hard drive by mounting it within an external casing. I thought all my backup problems were over from then on, but little did I know I would soon be facing a problem after I had copied gigabytes of data onto [...]

Riding on the Zune

This is going to be a post about making money. But to be honest, the inspiration came from a very different angle. When I saw the latest news about the Zune 30GB leap year bug, it occurred to me that although this was bad news for Microsoft, at the same time it reminded me of [...]

Happy Holidays

I’d like to wish all readers of my blog a happy holiday season and blessed fortunes next year. These are interesting and challenging times we live in. When I started this blog early in 2007, I had always intended it to be a place to jot down my observations, musings, news, and share tips which [...]

Improve your Internet connection speed

Are you getting frustrated with your Internet connection and its speed? The first thing you need to know is that the speed of your Internet surfing is not dependent on the speed of your computer hardware at all. Minimum hardware requirements are enough to surf most sites. Although Internet speed is largely affected by external [...]