Aja Lapus

Category: Tech

  • On Nofollow, Spam and Plugins

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    When the search engine giant Google announced that it would implement the rel=”nofollow” directive on its crawlers, most people had hopes it would be the end of comment spam, most especially when search competitors Yahoo! and MSN expressed support for the microformat as well. But, has this initiative from Google done its job?

  • Internet Connection Problem Resolved?

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    Though I sometimes experience the reduced bandwidth and intermittent disconnections, I guess it’s still enough to say that it could have gotten worse than that, and I still feel somehow satisfied. But after reading Euri’s recent rant about crappy Internet connections from a café, I decided to test my own connection.

  • Back to School

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    It isn’t the start of the semester or the academic year, but it sure feels like it as numerous school activities, weather mis-forecasts, and just the regular weekends got packed into one hell of a vacation I might as well call a weekendless.

  • Technological Language Barrier

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    With the newest technologies using names composed of superlatives, how would the next inventors and innovators brand their creations?

  • Giving Up on Social Bookmarking

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    Most of the time when I go scouring the Web for interesting articles, I see more or less than a dozen link icons to those sites within the blog entries. But, I ask myself: Do I really need to place all these links just for users to select which one they’d prefer to use?