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Google is like the Federation

[Garak takes a drink of root beer]
Quark: What do you think?
Garak: It’s vile.
Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy.
Garak: Just like the Federation.
Quark: And you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.
Garak: It’s insidious.
Quark: Just like the Federation.

- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – [...]

Twitter P2P

From mj:
They break out the infrastructure and make it P2P. This could shift the responsibility for uptime to others and allow them to host their own options for advertising or value-added services. Maybe even license the software out so there are a bazillion twitter servers out there. This would be the method by which Twitter [...]

Some sites I’ve worked on recently

Blueshell – UK E-commerce partnership company
Vivanco Direct – UK Electronic Accessories Store
Scartplug.com – UK audio and video cable store
White Wave – Cyprus web development company

None of them are particularly spectacular, but I felt I should let people know a bit about what I’ve been working on. I’m also working on a website for a [...]

Green fields and how to sow them

Here’s the scenario: you’re writing a green field web application. This application will be used to power more than one e-commerce site, which means that it must be easily tailored. You can use any toolset you like, and the requirements are fairly standard (e.g. exporting data to CSV, modern UI, payment gateway, [...]

Firefox phishing protection

Like anyone who has had the same e-mail address for 10 years, I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered, by one mechanism or another. Occasionally the odd bit gets through. Unlike most people, I like to do something about it. For example, when I see Adobe CS3 for [...]