blog
Fellow China watcher Nick Kristof has a great op-ed that looks at the relationship between three races that have traditionally enjoyed above average success in America and intelligence. His policy conclusion: "...the most decisive weapons in the war on poverty aren’t transfer payments but education, education, education.
blog
The CDN Cachefly seems to be partially down. As of 4:24pm HKT, their homepage and FTP upload server are both not responding. Data currently deployed on their network still works fine. Are they simply down for an update or will they be joining GM in bankruptcy court? Usually I
technology
A couple of weeks ago we released an update to Pay4Bugs, our software testing marketplace, that had hidden in it a small but incredibly usual new feature for those of you that have both Customer and Tester accounts. Quick Switch is a pair of tabs that appear at the top
blog
Those that know me well, or have had the opportunity (or perhaps bad luck) to travel with me know that I enjoy taking pictures. Late last year, I started looking for a place to store the over 10,000+ digital photographs I have taken over since I acquired my first
business
There is a lot of confusion about invoices in China. If you ask for an invoice from a vendor in most of the world and you will get a piece of paper issued by the vendor that lists the items or services you are buying, total amount due and terms.
technology
I saw a post a few weeks ago on Planet OpenID describing the difficulty a tech savvy user had trying to login to an OpenID-enabled site using a Yahoo!-provided OpenID. In the problem described in iwoman's post, a tech savvy user gets confused by the fact
technology
The launch of Pay4Bugs was unique not only because it is one of the first real products launched from day one with dual stack IPv4/IPv6 access, but also because Pay4Bugs, along with its sister IPv6-enabled OpenID provider, 87id, is the first site to make possible OpenID sign on
technology
Aaron Toponce over at Planet Ubuntu has an excellent article with graphics that really puts the vast size of the IPv6 address space in perspective in relationship to the almost used up IPv4 address space in perspective. I would just add that 64bits of the 128bit IPv6 address space do
economics
{% blockquote New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/economy/07jobs.html?pagewanted=2 Continuing Job Losses May Signal Broad Economic Shift %} "But history also shows that when fear [from the financial crisis] lifts, the economy returns not to normalcy but to wherever it was when
design
This post is the third in a series about radical technology choices in Pay4Bugs. In the first post in this series, I listened among our radical technology decisions the decision to launch our new Pay4Bugs Software Testing Marketplace without any support for Internet Explorer 6. In the interests of full
technology
This post is the second in a series about radical technology choices in Pay4Bugs. In my previous post, I discussed our decision to make several radical technology choices in designing the new Pay4Bugs software testing service. In this article, I will discuss the decision to launch Pay4Bugs with IPv6 enabled
technology
Designing Pay4Bugs, our new global software testing marketplace, provided us with much more flexibility in our technology choices when compared with designing our company's namesake product Attigo Virtual Language Immersion. Attigo's target market is the education market. Schools and educators, understandability, tend to be relatively conservative