I am using a fairly fresh install of Opera right now, with more default settings than I normally would use. One of these was the PDF file handling, like with other browsers (at least for Windows) Opera uses the Adobe Acrobat plugin by default. […]

The same issue of New Scientist had a report from an evangelical rationalist science congregation, under the theme of the atheists strike back. But my question is: Is this good for science? Richard Dawkins’ foundation, based on much the same idea, is discussed in […]

My magazine of choice, (The) New Scientist, released its first issue 50 years ago, and more recently followed up with a hefty anniversary issue. Reading news (or watching or browsing them for that matter) is a waste of time if you want to be […]

17 years ago, in a Friday November 17 far far away, the seminal event for the soon-to-become Velvet Revolution happened. The event itself, a sanctioned student demonstration ostensibly celebrating a martyr against the Nazi invasion 50 years earlier, mattered less than its aftermath: a […]

IE7 is now done and out. It is of course tempting to be glib and say “too little, too late”. While undeniably true, this upgrade matters. In part because there is an upgrade, giving hope of more to come, but also because many of […]

David Baron, of the Mozilla organisation, has a well-written entry starting with SVG 1.2 and continuing on how the W3C works, arguing that “We should work on, and implement, the standards that we think are appropriate for Web browsers, and ignore the rest. We […]

Handling risks is a core part of any business. A company that does this badly is unlikely to survive for a long time, a company that does this well has a competitive edge over other companies. Naturally there is a great interest in this […]

Prague is uncomfortably hot in July and August, making its inhabitants looking for a way out in those months. I had finished a trip to Silesia in the northeastern part of the country ending up in in the castle at Hradec nad Moravicí.

A Debates & Discussions forum thread: How has the Internet changed (or changed your life)? How will it change in you lifetime? I can recall as a kid in the seventh grade, in Montreal Quebec, in our computer science class we had access to […]

Opera 9.0 Beta is now available for download. For those of you who have regularly tested the 9.0 previews and weeklies the difference from those isn’t that great (except in stability), but from 8.5 it is huge. There are new features and advances in […]