In case you’ve forgotten, or simply don’t follow strange internet predictions, today is May 25th. This is supposed to be the day of the big “Mega-Tsunami” that is supposed to smash up the Pacific Coast of the United States. Other reports point the approaching tsunami towards the Atlantic. There’s actually an interesting news item on […]

There’s no doubt about it - spam is evolving. Only just a few years ago, it was fairly common to get spam emails which were outright advertisements for sex sites and drugs, casinos, banking frauds and a host of other things. While some of these items still slip through undetected, the vast majority of them […]

Pretty interesting techie post over on a blog by Niall Kennedy. The idea seems to be that over the course of the next few years, not only will we ourselves be blogging, but our gadgets and technical devices will also be creating streams of data, which could be thought of as blogs or maybe even […]

I just heard about a really cool-sounding organization called Servas. “Servas” means “to serve” in Esperanto. Apparently it is a world-wide network of people who promote peace through cultural exchange. The person who told me about it said that it works like this: you apply for membership, which is something like $50. It takes a […]