Here’s a cool application that guesses your gender based on your browser history. I know, it’s scary, right? No, not the gender guessing but the ability of a web application to look through your browser history.

I just tested it and I’m relieved it guessed my gender 98% correctly.  Here are the “guess ratings” it made when it intrusively navigated through my browser history: Read more »

Arguably, the album that revolutionized rock n roll… and launched grunge into mainstream.

The baby in the album is now a teenager. He’s seventeen years old and thinks it would have been cooler to be a teen in the 90’s.  I couldn’t agree with him more. Although I still think my teen life in the 90’s sucked, the rock music scene at that time was much more intense. His name is Spencer Elden, by the way.

I just learned today that Google has incorporated code snippets in its search results. For example, if you search for the term “mysql_connect”, which is a very popular function of PHP since it connects to its preferred database, MySQL, a code snippet will form part of the search result:

Apparently, this has been happening for months, in fact, it started the year 2006. So what? I just learned it today. Read more »

I received an e-mail about change in leadership selection today (2010 elections is fast approaching).  Basically, it’s an alternative way of choosing our leaders. This initiative is inspired by Lead India.

Here’s a quote from Scholastic Javier Alpasa, SJ, the one who started this initiative: Read more »

I am now “Do Follow” enabled. I know, I know. That strategy is old news. But what can I say? I just started blogging.

Anyways… for the ignorant. Wordpress, by default, uses a “nofollow” tag on its comments. So what is “nofollow”? - It tells spiders (big search engines like Google and Yahoo) not to crawl the links provided in the comments section of a particular blog. Currently, though, Yahoo and MSN follows links even when the “nofollow” tag is encountered. Read more »

Finally, Adobe, Google and Yahoo are working to enable search for Flash-based content. Me thinks Adobe is a bit slow in optimizing their Flash player technology.

One reason why most sites refrain from using Flash exclusively is because of its file size overhead. The other reason is SEO - it’s impossible to crawl Flash content. Read more »