by jnelson | Jun 14, 2013 | How the Net Works, News, Security, Warnings
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock lately, you know that recent revelations of the vast extent of government surveillance of the Internet and users have lit up a world wide firestorm. The brouhaha will doubtless continue, and further revelations are bound...
by Jamii Corley | Jun 10, 2013 | Events
Set aside the second weekend in September (14-15) for learning about WordPress, meeting other folks in the WordPress community and just having fun! WordCamp will be held at the Albuquerque Convention Center this year and we’re expecting a good sized crowd. If...
by jnelson | May 22, 2013 | How the Net Works, News, Warnings
When hackers boast of their exploits, they often claim that they had only the good of the victim at heart – no matter what kind of mischief they’ve been up to. They usually innocently say that they are exposing how they accomplished whatever remarkable invasion...
by jnelson | May 15, 2013 | How the Net Works, News
The World Wide Web is nearly a quarter of a century old; but it wasn’t until the browser was invented twenty years ago that it took off. Invented by atomic scientists as a means of sharing their experimental results, for such a young technology it’s surprisingly...
by jnelson | Apr 13, 2013 | News, Online Tools, Resources
Cloud computing may be a term both vague and overused, but it is far more than just the latest buzzword. The “cloud” is another way of referring to the Internet; hence “cloud computing” is simply computing done over the Net. In other words,...