Monthly Archives: July 2005

Jabber with Gizmo

Reading through the Gizmo Forum, I found a post from one of the admins saying that they are in the process of adding Jabber to the Gizmo client. That’s great news! I’m on the way to becoming a big fan … Continue reading

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Encrypted Voip

Wired news has a story about Phil Zimmermann’s plans to develop a program for encrypting Voip calls. I definitely agree that there is a need for encrypted voip, but this is not so revolutionary. All of Skype’s calls are already … Continue reading

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Liftoff

STS-114 has lifted off. They will arrive at the International Space Station on Thursday morning, where they will stay until Friday, August 5. Astronauts Steve Robinson and Soichi Noguchi will perform three spacewalks during the mission, “testing repair techniques and … Continue reading

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Tagzania

Browsing the Folksonomy tag on del.icio.us, I came across Tagzania. It’s a social geomarking tool (yeah, I made that up). Very much like del.icio.us, but for geographical locations instead of web ones. First… love the name, very clever. Second… I’ve … Continue reading

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Time is ripe for distributed authentication

I, along with all member of Spread Firefox, received an email explaining that their server had been accessed by an attacker: We don’t have any evidence that the attackers obtained personal information about site users, and we believe they accessed … Continue reading

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del.icio.us: tags for two

del.icio.us has just introduced tagging items for others. This is pretty cool, I guess. It could be done before by just asking your friends to use a certain tag when they wanted to share a site with you. This kinda … Continue reading

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STS-114

Space Shuttle Discovery is set to launch on July 13, on the first shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster. The independant safety panel says that NASA has not yet met all of its recommendations, and that the 3 recommendations that … Continue reading

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