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Archive for December, 2006

December 31, 2006

Signing Off for This Year

Thanks to all of you who have contributed with comments, ideas and encouragement in the past year of 2006. The site, stepheno.net, has only a been around for the past month, but I am already excited and pleased with the development. I am looking forward to a new year, trying to keep up with the past [...]

December 31, 2006

The Making of Walkers Android

Found this amusing advert on Google Video. I think this is a cool ad, but how it’s made and “the making of” was even more impressive. The advert is actually for Johnnie Walker. The making of, below, reveals how they used an initial actor to act all the movement, then they “digitalized” him, and made him more “perfect”. This [...]

December 30, 2006

ProfileLinker Simplifying Social Networking

I found out about ProfileLinker the other day. ProfileLinker will let you maintain your different social networking profiles from the same place, on their site. Almost weekly I receive invites from my friends and contacts to some new social network, and I kindly ignore them in lack of time. So to be able to control [...]

December 29, 2006

Blogging Bribes, Freedom of Press and Blogs

Some comments to my article (Laptops NOT a Microsoft Bribe?) on Digg.com made me realize that I should be a little more clear of where I stand on the issue. Firstly Credibility If you knew a travel operator had sponsored some journalists writing a merry story or review about a rather unknown holiday beach somewhere [...]

December 28, 2006

Laptops are NOT a Microsoft Bribe?

Well Microsoft’s so called bribing of profiled bloggers has flourished on the net the past day or so. (Wired’s: Microsoft Tries To Buy New Friends). Microsoft has apparently given laptops and mediacenters for free. Slashdot’s post linking to, amongst others, blogger Long Zheng. Well some of these “privileged” bloggers have felt the heat from critics. [...]

December 27, 2006

Season to be Jolly… Geeks and Health

During the celebration of Christmas and the surrounding Holiday season, we do take part in a great deal of dinners, and that means enjoying a lot more food than normal. What could be better than a little exercise following the festivities. Perhaps taking a quick winter or summer jog (depending whether you are in the [...]