Here’s something completely untech for a weekend posting. Via Metafilter: YourDictionary.com’s 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English. Some of my favourites (some of which should be phrases in their own right, though perhaps not for what they’re being used to describe): For all intensive purposes instead of For all intents and purposes … Read more
A few weeks back I wrote in my column of Wikipedia, the peer-produced online encyclopedia. Several readers and friends have asked whether it really stands up to scrutiny. How could something produced by a bunch of folk who may or may not have the qualifications, may or may not have an agenda, create something that’s … Read more
Here’s a new service for those of you wanting to track websites that don’t have RSS feeds, or email subscription, or just updates a lot. Called Trackle, it will: Track (“trackle”) Web pages for content changes, up to 24 times a day; Excerpt, combine and email you changes in easy-to-read plain text format while preserving … Read more
Here’s something for U.S. readers only: Find a computer repair guy online. For individuals and companies that can’t afford IT support personnel, ComputerRepair.com offers access to more than 3,000 technicians in all 50 states, and counting. It’s a kind of eBay of tech support: Users are encouraged to post their feedback and rate those computer repair … Read more
Are we liberated by technology, or its captive? I love my handphone and I congratulate myself, as I’m checking my email in the middle of some dusty Indonesian kampung, that I have harnessed technology and not the other way round. But sometimes I wonder. A recent poll by Siemens callled the Mobile Lifestyle Survey (no … Read more