Domain Name & Web Hosting FAQ

This FAQ makes a wonderful guide or tutorial for those new to making their own web site. Domain Names vs Web Hosting 1) What is the difference between a domain and a web host? A domain name is only the address of a web site, such as example.com. You need to register this so that…Continue Reading…

Obsolete GHz Rating System

Intel will soon follow AMD in using non-GHz names to rate the speeds of their different processor models. Finally people will realize that clock speed doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with actual performance. Slashdot | Intel Plans CPU Naming Change

MySQL Goes Together With PHP

Slashdot | MySQL Writes Exception for PHP in License Yep, and this blog is powered by PHP/MySQL. Thank God for open source.

Random Thought

Isn’t it amazingly awesome and convenient that the words “Username” and “Password” both contain the exact same number of letters?

Geeks’ Social Skills

One of the major reasons, IMHO, geeks and nerds do not develop social skills is because they see no need. Most kids are concerned with their classmates opinions, and being liked. Those that do not care about being liked and just want to do what they want to do — i.e. learn math — develop…Continue Reading…

Google Web APIs

Hmm, I just had a look at the Google Web APIs program and checked out their FAQ which states that the APIs can be used for “Creating innovative games that play with information on the web.” Google Web APIs – FAQ Imagine interactive web games that use Google’s continuously updated index of over four billion…Continue Reading…