Why does most software suck? Is it because the software engineers behind it are incompetent? Or should we blame their managers for wanting to rush out products before they’re ready so they can make money for the shareholders? A philosophy that many of us were indoctrinated in from an early age is that anything worth [...]

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I’ve been having nothing but problems getting Java programs to run on Java 6. The Adobe CS3 suite requires Java to work properly. With Java 6 installed, certain features didn’t work. I also couldn’t get Eclipse to run on Windows with this version of Java either. All of these problems were solved by uninstalling all [...]

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program seems noble. Make a low cost laptop computer and give it to 3rd world children to help them in their studies. The mission statement of OLPC Foundation is To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. Instead, what’s happening is that [...]

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If you’ve ever taken chemistry in high school or university, you’ll know what a periodic table is. This is a table which classifies all of the known elements according to their atomic number and groups together elements with similar properties (i.e. alkali metals, lanthanides, noble gases, etc.). I’ve always enjoyed studying the table myself with [...]

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John Chow is holding another contest. This time he’s giving away The 4-Hour Work Week book signed by its author, Timothy Ferriss. Working 4 hours per week is an intriguing idea. Ferriss, a popular guest lecturer in entrepreneurship at Princeton University, teaches the following concepts in his book: outsourcing jobs to virtual assistants overseas for [...]

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