To be honest, I’m surprised that they actually followed through on their commitment to stop censoring the web in China. However, it looks like a positive move for free speech on the net. Google has also setup this webpage to track the status of Google services blocked in China. In a few days time I [...]

Really interesting quote here from Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman Dan Glickman. …What a year! As John said, a 10% lift for the box office here at home…a 30% jump globally since 2005. Reversing a two-year trend, we have more people going to the movies…and more folks going more often…with a hard-core of [...]

Kwanghui Lim of Core Economics notes in a recent blog post that: “Ironically, it is now easier to download and install linux than it is to install Windows 7.” The quote comes from the author’s experience installing the new Windows 7 operating system. I had the pleasure of trying out the beta release of Windows [...]

Okay, so it’s not exactly the the birthday of my second favourite transcendental number*, but today is a celebration of the number represented by pi and our attempts to approximate it. I must admit to being fascinated by this number … how can a fundamental constant of nature be irrational? *I have to say that [...]

This graphic from digital inspiration provides a stunning picture for a westerner like myself what it might be like to surf the web in China. To be honest, I always imagined that most of the censorship in China revolved around specific topics like the Tiananmen Square massacre. I was somewhat surprised to find that sites [...]