October 2006

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Chinese Government on Censorship

“We do not censor the internet” says China. On the contrary, Harvard Law School researchers say there are 19,032 Web sites that were inaccessible inside China.

Lightweight PDF Reader from Adobe

Adobe Labs announced a lightweight PDF reader which they called Adobe Digital Editions (beta). A lightweight PDF reader is a very desired utility given the widespread use of the PDF format and the resource intensiveness of the Adobe Reader. I had…

Tune of The Week: The Raconteurs

I missed the last week’s tune of the week post due to my area paper defense preparation but this week I am back on track with The Raconteurs.

The band is a band of old friends who got together. Jack…

Area Paper Defense

Last Wednesday, October 25th, marked they day that all the work that I have put in to writing my area paper gave its fruit. After a successful presentation (more about that later) and defense, my committee agreed that I could…

Guns N’ Roses Concert Postponed

As I excitedly blogged here, we were supposed to be at the Guns N’ Roses concert at the moment. However, it turns out that the event was postponed and has not been rescheduled yet.

Oh well, this is actually kind of…

Internet Explorer 7 is Released

Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 to the public. It will be interesting to see if the security improvements will be effective. I am also expecting that RSS will see more adaptation as it is now integrated with…