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Using Arc Diagrams to visualize data validation and platform interaction in SwiftRiver.

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Although the Apple tablet has yet to prove itself as fact or fiction, I hope the new speculation about tablets for periodicala will include the thriving comicbook and manga businesses. Websites like Zuda and Marvel successfully translate the comic reading experience to the web but to be honest, the last thing I want to do [...]

If there were ever a company that had a real chance of becoming Skynet, it would be Google. Let’s hope that ‘don’t be evil’ mantra still permeates the company in twenty five years when Google AI robots are cooking your dinner or tending to other things. Today Google announced it’s own alternative DNS resolver. Google’s [...]

I just came across a great article by Nathaniel Whittemore at change.org about whether or not Silicon Valley can really change the world. I have no doubt in my mind that there are some fantastic people in the Valley that, can will and are working towards doing just that. But I also know those are [...]

So today, I intended to triumphantly return to the world of personal blogging with this blog but I failed. My first post pushed out today was actually this one below from 2008:

Arg. How did that happen? It turns out it’s a problem with Feedburner. Feedburner was an awesome service for about 5 months (after it [...]

After many moon and many suns, I’ve decided to reactivate my personal blog. Once upon a time I used to write photoshop tutorials, graphic design tips, etc and prior to that this was my travel blog as I backpacked around Europe. Now it’s where I’ll talk about everything I don’t write about over at Appfrica.net. [...]

Wordpress continues to evolve with the release of 2.7 to the public on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. That’s 5pm Thursday in California, 1am Friday in London (UTC), 8am Friday in Jakarta, noon on Friday in Sydney and so on. For a quick rundown of all the new features and updates visit [...]

Do you have multiple Wordpress self-hosted blogs? If so, you’ve likely run into a scenario where you just can’t remember the password to one. With Wordpress 2.5 and beyond there’s an annoying bug that sometimes generates passwords that don’t work when you click the “Forgot Password” option. Usually that button generates a query that will [...]

Did you know you can send free SMS messages in Africa? There’s a few ways. Of course, the mobile messaging service MXit is one that uses GPRS and 3G protocols to by pass the standard charges all together. But another more obscure method is explained by the people at Make Use Of…

Most of mobile carriers [...]

My email management, has quickly spiraled out of control. I constantly forget to reply to people, lose important emails and lose files to the sea of messages I get. Like many, I’m longing for someone to create either a desktop or web app that solves many of the issues that I’m having with Gmail and [...]