Tag Archive | "poverty"
Vista, UAC and the ClickOnce Bootstrapper
Image by cocoate.com via FlickrWe all enjoy being bitten in the ass by that 1 scenario that we never remembered to test, especially when you're about to release. My particular ass biting comes in the form of the ClickOnce bootstrapper. For those of you who don't know ClickOnce, the bootstrapper is the setup.exe that users [...]
Continue reading...Vista, UAC and the ClickOnce Bootstrapper
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Image by cocoate.com via FlickrWe all enjoy being bitten in the ass by that 1 scenario that we never remembered to test, especially when you're about to release. My particular ass biting comes in the form of the ClickOnce bootstrapper. For those of you who don't know ClickOnce, the bootstrapper is the setup.exe that users [...]
Continue reading...Why is China suing Microsoft over WGA
Thursday, October 23, 2008
While in study trip to Shanghai a few months ago (travel blog in Hebrew), I noticed some Windows Genuine Advantage warnings appearing on the screens of the university computers: : When I asked one of the Chinese professors about it, he commented that the price of legitimate Microsoft software in China was so [...]
Continue reading...On Poverty - Blog Action Day
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Welcome to our contribution to Blog Action Day, when thousands of middle-class entrepreneurs change the world by posting on their blogs AT THE SAME TIME! (Although I am a little confused, as I thought we made poverty history at Live8 a couple of years ago?) Poverty is something that Chris Martin, and therefore the [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Updates for 2008-10-09
Thursday, October 9, 2008
THOUGHT: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character - Albert Einstein # @chrisbrogan I thought it meant to punch yourself? # SocialMarketingExpert browsing - Social Media Optimisation - http://ping.fm/8eNV5 # THOUGHT: When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps - Confucius # SocialMarketingExpert browsing -Social [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft to Control ODF?
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Guess what the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, is up to now? I call it a takeover attempt of ODF, according to my reading of the published notes of the most recent meeting held yesterday, October 1st, and starring a document titled “Request to JTC 1 for alignment of OASIS and [...]
Continue reading...Poverty and Inequality
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sierra Leone: Too Many Poor People Mr. President (AllAfrica.com) Poor people clap and stand by roadsides to see the president’s motorcade The people of Sierra Leone have resigned to fate with little hope that President Koroma will take them from the abysmal hopelessness. The level of poverty is evident among some 80% of the [...]
Continue reading...Using Audio Technology to Reduce Global Illiteracy, Poverty
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Google Tech Talks January, 8 2008 ABSTRACT For more info, see http://literacybridge.org/ Knowledge is power; but most knowledge is tied up in text. So how do the 774 million illiterate adults in the world access knowledge crucial to preventing disease, creating economic opportunity, and defending their political and human rights? [...]
Continue reading...I Hate IE6
Saturday, September 20, 2008
As you may or may not know, I dabble in web design. And as I have come to learn you can have a site finished and working fine, only to find out that it does not work in Microsoft IE6. Why is this. From what I understand is that it’s because IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6) does [...]
Continue reading...Wii and DVD Playback
Monday, August 18, 2008
I am a little late to the party on this one, but I just had to air out my frustration and joy that the Wii finally has some DVD playback abilities. Last week one of the hot topics around the console news machine was the homebrew scene ... Read the rest of the [...]
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
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