Pakistan’s attempt to block YouTube

Written by admin on 15.05.2008 | News

Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries.
The outage Sunday highlighted yet another of the Internet’s vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems […]

2007: Year of creeping terror

Written by admin on 15.05.2008 | News

The year about to pass began inauspiciously with the ASEAN summit in Cebu, postponed from December 2006 due to threatening typhoons, then marred by accusations of corruption when it finally pushed through.
But perhaps 2007 will be best remembered as the year when terror – whether caused by extremists or faulty septic tanks – crept […]

Projecting Motion Into A Photo

Written by admin on 08.05.2008 | Photography

There is this new toy known as the flying kite. It can be flown using a remote control. The flying kite is decorated with a lot of colored lights. It looks especially stunning and beautiful when you fly it against the dark sky.
Maybe you are wondering why I am talking about the flying kite. Well, […]

Computers - How Important Are They?

Written by admin on 06.05.2008 | Computers, Technology

Computers today are currently overpriced and still in an experimental phase well out of reach of the typical consumer. Computers seem to be designed to waste our time by unnecessary loading redundant data and shockingly slow components made by improvement of archaic concepts. This is standard on most computers. On the other hand, computers today […]

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