Yahoo Mail Gets Better But Good Enough?

Yahoo Mail is touting its improvements on its What’s New page in front of user’s email accounts. Is what’s new really better? Is it enough to make Yahoo Mail good enough?

All in One SEO Pack Upgrades Disable WordPress Plug-in Every Time

The WordPress All in One SEO Pack is starting to rub me the wrong way. I’m sure that being a WordPress plug-in developer is thankless work. One of the things that makes WordPress so powerful and loved by the web development and blogging community is that it is easily extensible (much like Firefox) via add-ons … Read more

Java Default Cache Size 1 GB!

Are you kidding me? By default, your Java install, the one that you installed because you wanted to use an application that it’s developer touted as being cross-platform because it was written in Java sets its Temporary Files Disk Space size at 1,000 MB! That is a whole GIG of data if you are having … Read more

Multi-Taskers In Trouble – Pseudo-Science Makes Great Headlines

A "news story" making the rounds the past few days details a "study" which says that multi-taskers are more likely to be distracted and make mistakes than non-multitaskers. At least that’s the conclusion they come to after dividing people into two groups, those who often have multiple things like television, videos, and music going at … Read more

The Limits of Technology

Every once and a while a news story comes along to remind us that any technology has its limits. Yesterday, in Alabama, a semi-truck driver drove his rig into a 12-foot high tunnel. His trailer was 13 1/2 feet tall. There are sensors which detect vehicles over the high limit and activate flashing lights and … Read more