Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Message Error
In yet another repudiation of its predecessor, the Obama administration this week migrated the White House Web site to Drupal, the popular open-source Web site management software.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Masters of the Wikiverse
The council of elders that runs Wikipedia confirmed last week that, sometime soon, the unwashed masses will no longer be able to directly edit the profiles of famous living people.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Who Checks the Spell-Checkers?
On April 30, 2007, with all the usual fanfare that accompanies a software update, Microsoft added Barack and Obama to Office’s dictionary. It was a fairly quick canonization for the Illinois senator. His surname had been on Microsoft’s candidate list for new words since Jan. 5 of that year, and his first name followed three days later, in the same recruiting class as Zune, Klum, and Friendster.
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