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! I guess we’ll be busy unpacking and therefore hopefully won’t miss it too much, but after having cable Internet service for a good 3 years and DSL for two years before, it’ll still be awkward....

My company just instigated a complete ban on instant messaging clients, supposedly for security reasons. While I agree that instant messaging applications may not be the most secure and probably should not be used internally for sensitive information (for which an internal instant messaging deployment of some sort would be preferable), I feel that instant messaging has become such a commodity for personal communications that removing this privilege is a highly significant and intolerable restriction....

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. Microsoft took over the browser market fair and square by making a better product, but they were so afraid that Web-based applications would eliminate the need for Windows that they locked the IE team in a dark dungeon and they haven’t allowed improvements to IE for several years now....

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. Sure, 100MB is only one tenth of Gmail’s 1GB, but it should be more than enough for most purposes....