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Captcha Brain Power

By John Garner on Tuesday, September 5, 2006

I just came across a very interesting Google Video from Google. Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon professor, discusses the Captcha concept used to stop automatic systems from filling in forms and how currently Spam companies are trying to get around it. Captcha is used to describe a system that allows a computer to automatically […]

Google SEO Lessons

By John Garner on Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Google, via it's evangelist Adam Lasnik is starting to provide SEO classes. As you can see here the seminars are cheap and open to all. It begs the question about Google asking people to create web sites for people and not for their robots. However, it is true that the best idea is to build […]

Superb time lapse photo shoot

By John Garner on Saturday, September 2, 2006

I just came across this photo set of the same view using a time lapse intervelometer device. I was lead to it from a remixed version over on flickr : by 'narphorium' (he explains how he did it in the comments with Photoshop) Do check the original and the remix, both are really good pieces […]

The UK Government's Wiki melt-down

By John Garner on Saturday, September 2, 2006

Yes pun intended, the minister from the UK government that decided to create an open environmental Wiki that 'all' could edit must have been reading all the web 2.0 hype about getting people involved without any authentication required. Well the result is pretty impressive in that the site was defaced and lead way to numerous […]

Ringing around the world at the right time

By John Garner on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

If you travel a fair amount as I do and also need to ring people up who may live on the other side of the world it's not always easy to remember what the best time to ring people is. Well, fear no more, you'll never make a mistake again with the World Clock Meeting […]

The spying CD

By John Garner on Monday, August 28, 2006

A CD from Sony that can tell how many times you have copied it !!! I can remember that Martin, a flat mate at University, used to leave his copy of New Scientist hanging around in the kitchen for us to read. Since that time I have often bought a copy and now check the […]

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