The Little XMLHttpRequest Object is Huge

A little JavaScript object called XMLHttpRequest, which has actually been around in several browsers for quite a while, is the key to Ajax and Web 2.0.

The device driver for your network card is preventing PC from entering standby or hibernation - BeyondTeck

The device driver for your network card is preventing PC from entering standby or hibernation - BeyondTeck

This page gives a super simple solution to this problem.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa Moonship flight target slips

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa Moonship flight target slips: "Nasa Moonship flight target slips
Orion (Nasa)
Nasa hopes its Orion ship will take it back to the Moon.



Nasa has pushed back by a year its internal target date for flying the successor to the shuttle.

Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Orion ship.

This is a year later than Nasa had hoped for, but still inside its March 2015 absolute deadline."

Loading doskey automatically with CMD - Tildemark blogs :: Tildemark blogs

Loading doskey automatically with CMD - Tildemark blogs :: Tildemark blogs

Using the Datastore - Google App Engine - Google Code

Using the Datastore - Google App Engine - Google Code: "Storing data in a scalable web application can be tricky. A user could be interacting with any of dozens of web servers at a given time, and the user's next request could go to a different web server than the one that handled the previous request. All web servers need to be interacting with data that is also spread out across dozens of machines, possibly in different locations around the world.

Thanks to Google App Engine, you don't have to worry about any of that. App Engine's infrastructure takes care of all of the distribution, replication and load balancing of data behind a simple API—and you get a powerful query engine and transactions as well."

What is XML?

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is a markup language that you can use to create your own tags. It was created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to overcome the limitations of HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language that is the basis for all Web pages. Like HTML, XML is based on SGML -- Standard Generalized Markup Language. Although SGML has been used in the publishing industry for decades, its perceived complexity intimidated many people that otherwise might have used it (SGML also stands for "Sounds great, maybe later"). XML was designed with the Web in mind.

Data, Information, Knowledge, & Wisdom

Data, Information, Knowledge, & Wisdom: "According to Russell Ackoff, a systems theorist and professor of organizational change, the content of the human mind can be classified into five categories:

1. Data: symbols

2. Information: data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to 'who', 'what', 'where', and 'when' questions

3. Knowledge: application of data and information; answers 'how' questions

4. Understanding: appreciation of 'why'

5. Wisdom: evaluated understanding."