Internet

I found this nice website on anonymous web browsing. It covers official anonymizers as well as other services that can be used for this purpose, such as Altavista's Babelfish. Interesting...

We are very excited about moving into our new house this Friday. All of the basic utilities are taken care of, we have phone service and cable TV, etc. Unfortunately, DSL won't be active until Wednesday, so we'll be without high-speed Internet access for around 5 days!...

My company just instigated a complete ban on instant messaging clients, supposedly for security reasons....

Firefox 0.9 has been released a few days ago, and it certainly looks worthy of upgrading to (or installing, if you're not using it yet). Joel Spolsky lists three reasons to switch web browsers today. Of particular interest is the following one: You'll help break the Microsoft Monopoly on web browsers....

I just logged into my Yahoo Mail account for the first time in a few days and was alerted to the fact that my storage size has been increased from 6MB to 100MB! For more information, see this article at Wired News. This is a very smart move on Yahoo's side that is bound to take a lot of the steam out of Google's Gmail....