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A recent article on BBC cites an interview with the former Sony executive whines, that the Japanese industry is losing to competition, mainly from US. But reading into the article further reveals, that the main victim of the battle between Sony, Apple and Microsoft is actually the executive himself, who apparently didn'

It is really amazing - so far my spam filter has prevented more than 3,500 spam comments! See here for more info on the issue.

Open source is making its way into breweries! An OS beer recipy is available on freebeer.org, and beer based on it is being sold, mainly in Scandinavia.

Wholesale prices for oil and gas are going down, but it doesn't look like British Gas is going to reduce the retail prices.

According to this wikipedia entry, the sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is perfectly valid English...

What can be done in order to cause people not to use dark background and light font color on their web pages? Reading long text, which looks like this can be frustrating! Yes, I know about bookmarklets and use them extensively (you should as well, if don't alrea

BBC informs us, that a major fraud, targeting account information of private clients was prevented by a new government body, called "Soca". The acronym stands for "Serious Organized Crime Agency" which I find rather amusing.

I saw a link in my favorite property whining blog to an article in New York Times, which talks about mortgage-backed financial securities in the US and their role in the current housing boom.

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Когда в английской прессе разгорался скандал вокруг иракской войны (а было это после того, как коалиции не удалось найти так называемое оружие массового уничтожения, будто старый добрый Калашников - это детский совочек, и им нельзя перебить несколько миллионов)

As mentioned earlier, I have been suffering from increasing numbers of spam comments. I got tired of it and installed the anti-spam module for Drupal, mentioned in that blog entry. It looks like with a little twisting and adjusting, it catches almost all of the garbage. Cool!