Category Archives: Commentary

When web based email services like Hotmail where still quite a new service, the barrage of spam that they received was a source of constant complaint for their users. As the internet and their spam filtering techniques have evolved, I … Continue reading →

In the last few days, a homeless man in Ohio named Ted Williams has become a viral internet sensation because he has a golden radio voice. Ted, a panhandler was standing at an intersection when someone took a short video … Continue reading →

For the first time that I can remember, I received a completely unhandled exception on YouTube and the error message made me laugh: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched … Continue reading →

The organisation behind a number of the standards that web development relies on in the present were forged through the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. Over the years they’ve published countless documents on their web site outlining in great … Continue reading →

In the last week or so there have been a number of publishing errors on Search Engine Land, which I consider to be major mistakes that should have been caught by the authors, writers, editors and good quality work flow. … Continue reading →

  I came across a clever web site named Wikirank, which provides visualisation tools to explore and compare the usage data from wikipedia.org.  If you’re wondering how Wikirank could manage that, wikipedia.org provide access to their web server traffic logs … Continue reading →