Digital Ether

The Australian government is sinking a large amount of money into updaing our old national network. (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/aussies-announc/). Last year the OECD listed worldwide broadband Internet statistics (http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,3343,en_2649_34225_38690102_1_1_1_1,00.html).  Although the Australian newspaper answered with Broadband ratings lifted, having a go at the OECD report.  However, I think it’s long over due

As part of keeping up to date with various pieces of software I’m looking at various WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Website Editors. See http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/06/25-wysiwyg-editors-reviewed/.  The problem with WYSIWYG is that it was bad when compared to hand-coding (ie writing it yourself), but things have progressed a lot since the last time I investigated this.

The trade off with using such HTML/XML editors to create web-pages is that Hand-coding is more efficient with a proficient coder (ie programmer) in terms of size (ie bytes), but takes more time. WYSIWYG and other code creation tools are quick, but tend to create code that it less efficient.

In IT you need to be aware of the effect a software tool will have on the possible solutions that you could create.

A court in France has decided that the Internet is a fundamental Human Right! (See the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights).  Does this enshire Internet addition? I now access to the Internet is a very useful tool in the modern world, but is it a fundamental right?
Read more (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_internet_access_a_fundamental_human_right_franc.php)