Articles on Internet Related Rumblings

CAPTCHAs are annoying!

Tell me, what is the number on this CAPTCHA? A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is supposed to do the job of telling computers and humans apart, to reduce spam by getting the human to read the text in the image and then retype it out in a text [...]

Free in-home wireless broadband service - Google TiSP

Man! Google really goes all out. Its providing totally free broadband Internet access to homes through its latest technology. . . . … to fool people on April Fools. A little late for April Fools, but never too late for a laugh.

Must we all have big dreams?

Two weeks ago, one of my friends whom I met at a seminar introduced me to a business consultant. Over a cup of coffee, he (the business consultant) proposed that he do a free consultation of my business for me. The session was great - he got me thinking and planning my business [...]

Adware-lexa? There is Adware in the Alexa toolbar

At least, that is what my virus scanner told me. Today I was wanting to be a “regular reader” to some of my sites, so I switched back to Internet Explorer, and I got myself equipped with the Google Toolbar and Alexa Toolbar. I didn’t have these installed on Firefox, because the SearchStatus add-on could help me [...]

Success Comes From Successful Habits

Char from Casual Keystrokes tagged me a couple days ago asking me to share my secret successful habits, and well, frankly, everyone knows the secret to success is its actually no big secret. Its hard work! Here are my top 3 anyway! A learner’s attitude - I think having a learner’s attitude is by far the [...]

Don’t just tell me what is wrong, tell me what to do!

IBM/Lenovo has taken one step ahead of their competitors by installing a “message centre” application together with the IBM Thinkpad laptops. This application sits in the system tray, and occasionally, a message or two will pop up, informing me of any product or driver updates that is available. I thought it was a nifty application, [...]

Engage your customers in conversation. Or else.

Every time I make a trip to the SIM Management House at Namly Avenue for a workshop, the advert there for their professional development courses that never fails to catch my eye! So I was thinking, should we have something like that for corporate blogging? Heh. Anyway, if you are interested in what was [...]

What are the prerequisites of being a consultant?

For those who have followed this blog for a couple of months now, you must already realised that I really enjoy sharing the interesting things I have found as I have progressed, and particularly for this blog, the stuff I’ve learnt about marketing though social media, or rather more specifically, through the use of blogs. I [...]

IT Show 2007 in Singapore

Man… IT show 2007 is coming up next week. I remember the times when I used to go to these large scale IT shows… sometimes twice or three times within the same week! That was the time when I was all crazed about tweaking and what we call “modding” our personal computers, overclocking our CPUs [...]

The best way to teach HTML!

Ever been frustrated teaching people how some HTML tags work? Try this. (h/t: Presentation Zen) A picture paints a thousand words. True.
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