This title sums up the most popular articles on my site over the past 30 days (according to a mix of Google Analytics and Woopra statistics). Linux posts are by far the most popular. Perhaps this is simply due to the large quantity of Linux related posts I tend to make on this site, although [...]

The National Archives have recently released a large amount of documents on reported UFO sightings and related internal and public communications relating to them. In total, the National Archives have released over eight and a half thousand UFO related pages this March. You can download all the documents in PDF format individually. However, for the convenience of [...]

About this time last year, Wikipedia requested donations and given how much I use the site, I donated and gave the cause a little bit of promotion. It makes sense. Coming back to this year, an appeal from the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has recently gone out. I’ve quoted a part of it below. I [...]

I’m not a Windows user primarily. The vast majority of time my computers and laptop boot into Linux, specifically Ubuntu, as of recent. However, I do have several of my machines set-up with both Ubuntu and Windows 7. One of my major gripes with Windows, which has always been there, is that after a clean [...]

Update: Although geolocation is commonly referenced when discussing HTML 5, it is a API which is maintained in a separate specification and is not actually a new feature of HTML 5. Identifying the physical location of a computer via HTML 5′s geolocation is now incredibly easy and only requires a few lines of JavaScript. Due to the simplicity [...]

Although some of the most talked about tags coming in HTML 5 are the video, audio and canvas tags, there are many other new tags which primarily focus around content. One of the aims of HTML 5 is to remove styling from the HTML mark-up and ensure all styling is defined within the cascading style sheets where [...]

I found this image whilst browsing Reddit, which I’ve come to do quite frequently. Although I can not vouch for its statistical accuracy, the likely truths behind it are quite fascinating.

Model view controller is a type of software architecture that is designed to separate the programming code that handles presentation, application logic and business logic. This makes systems using a model view controller architecture much simpler to maintain, as locating the code relevant to specific logic is significantly easier. Additionally, it makes expansion of systems much less complex, [...]

I found this video by RSA Animate really interesting. It describes what motivates us to work and states how, for non-trivial tasks, higher monetary incentives tend to lead to worse performance. This behaviour is apparently not too anomalous and has been replicated in many locations and by many different professionals in fields such as economics, [...]

I was recently shown this image of online, orginal source unknown, which shows just how small we really are in the vastness of space. Click the image to view it enlarged, on its own.