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  • The 1,000,000 Google pages meme

    A meme is a form of idea that propagates almost by itself as if it had its own life (possibly undergoing modifications and evolution). The basic principle has been first described by Richard Dawkins in his world-famous book “The selfish gene” where he draws a clear parallel between gene and meme. I had previously described…

  • Step 4: Configure the Apache server

    Oops! This one is certainly more thoroughly complex than the rest of the steps of this “creating a new web site” tutorial. More positively, usually, you do not need to take this step. In my personal case, for the creation of the Lexyk.com dictionary web site, I needed to add a small specific helper. I…

  • On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

    I really love this sentence that says so much about the freedom and the dangers on the Internet. The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law…

  • Step 3: Connect web space and domain name

    Essentially, after renting some space from your web hosting company, only this company and you know where your web site is hosted. Nobody else has this key information. Even more important, the company your hired to provide this information to the rest of the Internet (the registrar you hired to provide Domain Name Service –…

  • Free movie: The night of the living dead

    Free movie: The night of the living dead

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org The grand-daddy of all gore and zombie movies. A cult movie. George Romero invented nearly all when he did this film. A group of people isolated from the rest of the world in a farm is assaultd by flesh-eating and blood-thirsty zombies (living dead eating human flesh).…

  • Vasile Botnaru, journalist and artist

    Vasile Botnaru, journalist and artist

    Basil, as he’s better known among his friends, is a journalist from Chisinau, Moldova. While his activities in this field are quite notable, Vasile Botnaru is also an artist I have been appreciating deeply for several years. I thought it was time to give his work some additional light. You will find here an Internet…

  • Step 2: Rent web publishing space

    After reserving a domain name, your web site does not really move yet. You need to have some space where to put your data (your text, your images, etc.). Usually this is a space rented to a hosting company. Note: It is true that you could buy this space (instead of renting it); You would…

  • Milestones in pro blogging

    Blog-Republic.com/ has an interesting article by Darren about what should be considered as Realistic milestones of professional blogging success. It’s setting (or asserting) what you, the serious blogger, should expect in order to reach more and more serious levels of blogging. I agree completely with the figures (for example, 1000-5000$ of annual earnings as a…

  • The new 10 Mega-pixel Nikon D80

    Nikon did not wait for the opening of the Koeln Photokina (moved to the end of September, later than usual) before announcing the details about its new Digital SLR, the Nikon D80. I would assume that this is because of the rush produced by the Sony Alpha A100. But nobody would dare to confirm this.…

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