The widespread view of the Mafia is that which is portrayed in Hollywood films, and in particular The Godfather trilogy and Goodfellas. Undoubtedly, the characters in these films are mostly vicious thugs bent on making money by all means possible, but nevertheless they are presented as stylish, cocky and seemingly untouchable. This portrayal is also... Read more.
Technorati estimate that there are over 175,000 new blogs created everyday. Of those blogs in existence there are 18 updates per second, or 1.6 million posts per day. This is a phenomenal amount of blogging and if you have started your own blog you may well wonder how you will find an audience amongst so... Read more.
Google has just released Page Speed, a tool for Firefox/Firebug. It lists all factors on a page that could cause unnecessary download lags for users. Features covered include gzip compression, browser caching, using efficient CSS selectors (the less descendants the better) and the need to minify Javascript. As broadband penetration is now over 95% in... Read more.
The Sixties is the decade that refuses to end. We seem to be riding on a continuous wave of nostalgia and reflection to the extent that all adults have experienced their own slice of the Sixties even if they weren’t born until after 1970. The attraction is obvious, as the appealing first page of quotes... Read more.
Sub-headed ‘The Rise and Fall of Socialism’ and complementary quotes from Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens and Paul Johnson on the dust jacket hardly makes this an appealing book on initial inspection. A closer look also throws up more problems. The subject matter of a history and critique of world socialism from the French onwards means... Read more.
The what web browser you may ask? The QtWeb – an Open Source project released under the GNU licence and based on the WekKit rendering engine which Chrome and Safari use. If you want to compare to the most popular browsers on the market then take a look at this chart: http://www.qtweb.net/compare.php This is from... Read more.
