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The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality

From David Pogue’s blog (on New York Times and if you can spot the irony in me posting this here, good for you!):

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
I’ve been doing a good deal of speaking recently. And in one of my talks, I tell an anecdote about a lesson I learned from my own readers.
It [...]

Religiosity vs Wealth

Identify your files with confidence!

In a web application, allowing users to upload files is always a risky manevour. One way I have heard of to reduce the possibility that the user is not uploading invalid data is to verify the file type. This is of dubious usefulness as a sufficiently crafty attacker will do crazy things like embed PHP [...]

APDIP e-Note on Electronic Document Standards

I wrote an APDIP e-Note on Electronic Document Standards which was published yesterday on their website. The e-Note covers background on document standards, introduces ODF and its relevance and covers PDF as well as OOXML. Do read it. This post will accept comments, so do send me your feedback.
Cheers.

Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface

Thinking long and deep on the nature of user interfaces, the following koan summarizes the essence of observation points:

Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface
One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he [...]