Google Says You Are Vulnerable

Attention webmasters: Google wants you to know your site has security vulnerabilities. As part of their online webmaster tools, Google is now providing free notifications of common web server security problems.

Read More

10 Billion Photos

Most people don’t think of Facebook as a photo site, but it has far more photos on it than either Photobucket or Flickr: Over 10 billion to be exact. Flickr hosts about 2 billion photos and Photobucket hosts around 6 billion photos.

It also underscores the pervasiveness of social media when you consider at peak traffic Facebook serves 300,000 images per second to its 100 million members.

Read More

Paola Antonelli On The Interplay Between Design and Technology

Paola Antonelli, design curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), delivers an interesting talk about the connection between design and technology. Her influence is certainly part of the reason MoMA is such a fascinating place to visit, and their catalog is a joy to receive.

Read More

Poor Exception Handling is Expensive

Doing my daily walk through the blogosphere, every once in a while I come across a gem that I can’t help but share.  David Van Couvering‘s blog entry entitled The Curse of the Swallowed Exception is one of these gems The second paragraph alone was enough to earn him a spot in my reader:

I think one of the most common and most expensive (in terms of maintenance) programming errors I see is the handling of exceptions.

Read More

Hopefully, This Isn’t A Metaphor For Your Marketing Strategy

Weiner Dog Races

Read More