'Internets' Category
John Chow and your blog
The best way to improve your readership is by linking up with big blogs. If you never get anyone to link to you, then you’ll never rise in Google and will never be as popular as John Chow. He has the blogging market cornered and makes money by blogging about how you can [...]
Serenity
Serenity is the best science fiction movie ever. Its better than Star Wars, Blade Runner and The Matrix; at least, according to a recent poll by SFX magazine. Serenity, if you haven’t heard, is the feature film based on the canceled show Firefly. It is a space western, telling the story of [...]
The Redundant Bagel
One of the best ways to get news from all over the Internet is through an RSS reader. I use Google reader and it works very well. When you have all of your news sources from across the vast Internet all in one place, you realize that the Internet isn’t as varied and cool as [...]
Computer Security
Depending on your news sources, you may or may not have seen the following table describing how easy it is to crack your password using the ‘brute force’ method. (guessing with completely random strings of letters)
Password Length
All Characters
Only lowercase
3 characters
4 characters
5 characters
6 characters
7 characters
8 characters
9 characters
10 characters
11 characters
12 characters
13 characters
14 characters
0.86 seconds
1.36 minutes
2.15 hours
8.51 days
2.21 [...]Death and Taxes
Yes, the only 2 things you can count on in your life. Except that Taxes imply work. So, if you want to avoid paying any taxes next year, (This year is a bit too late as they are due in less than a month) you should stop working. If you don’t stop working, here is [...]
