Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Upgraded Blog Engine

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

I’ve taken some time to upgrade the blog engine to WordPress 1.5. I’ve been very happy with this software, and I think the author, Matt Mullenweg, is an excellent chap for devoting so much time to enhancing this excellent software.
I customized the previous version with a three-pane template, but I haven’t had time to […]

Blogging Hazard

Monday, February 14th, 2005

Blogging may be the latest trend to sweep the Internet in the past year. Even Google, the admired technology leader, has bought Blogger.com. Bloggers allow personal publishing direct to the Internet on a massive scale.
In recent months, several developments have clouded the issue about blogging and its consequences. In October, Delta fired […]

GMail - Google’s Great Mail

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Google is currently one of the technology leaders in the Internet space. It’s lead in search engine technology is being extended to adjacent fields. One of the headline grabbing news to come out of Google in 2004 was that it would offer 1GB of email - this was larger than any of the […]

Managing Photos and Picasa

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

If you haven’t visited my online photo album, you might want to take a look. Since I bought my first digital camera in 2000, I’ve grown accustomed to the convenience and features that digital photography offers. Yet, with all it offers, managing digital photos can be a pain.
After years of experimenting with various […]

Lightweight Web Application Platform

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m running Wordpress as my blog engine. It is a lightweight and flexible application that allows me to post my journal entries and to categories and administer them effectively. Like many web applications, it runs on PHP and MySQL. It is a ubiquitious environment that many webhosting […]

Photoblog - Chromasia

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

I’ve been writing in this Journal for about two months now, and I’ve often visited other people’s blogs for inspiration or out of curiousity. Today, I discovered a photoblog - where you tell your story with photos.
Photoblogging is a natural extension of a journal for photographers, and I’ve even made an abortive attempt at […]

Wiki, wiki, TiddlyWiki

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

Wiki pages have proliferated around the Web as the content management platform of choice. It’s a simple concept that allow users to add and modify content on the Web using just a browser. This has proven so popular that Wiki is now used for different purposes - from helping project teams to share […]

Who Owns my Email?

Friday, October 15th, 2004

Do you own emails that you send at work? Or does it belong to the corporate, as proprietary information? Is it legal to make personal backups of email from work?
In this age of jealously guarded intellectual property rights, these questions are not out of place. All technology companies requires that employees sign […]

Advertising on the Internet

Friday, October 8th, 2004

How can one make money off the Internet? Selling stuff through the online auctions? Possibly. Write great content, attract millions of visitors and sell advertising space? You bet!
There are numerous advertising agencies on the Internet - Doubleclick.net is one of the pioneers. Advertisments are sold in terms of impressions (how […]

Practical Software Requirements

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Writing requirements as a product manager has always been a black art to me. It’s not impossible but it normally involves a lot of fudging and reading it always make me feel that there’s something missing. I often end up putting specifications inside the requirements document. How do I make it complete […]