News from the world of writing, web design and databases.
A 73-year-old Canadian law that bans the publication of election results across time zones has finally caved in to the all-consuming power of Twitter, Facebook and other social networking tools, report Reuters. Under the law, any public broadcast (including posting on a social networking feed) of election night results in ridings located in earlier...
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Preparation, preparation, preparation. It’s essential when you’re designing a new database. Although the temptation can be to just start entering data and creating new fields as you need them, pre-planning your database can really help to make it more efficient and save you time in the long run. The first thing you want to...
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The New York Times has an interesting editorial about whether or not internet access should be considered a human right. This, of course, was in response to a UN report from June 2011, which put forward the idea that access to the internet is a human right, especially in light of a year of...
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If you’re a casual web user, you may not have given too much thought to your choice of web browser. Maybe you just use Internet Explorer because it came with your Windows PC — or Safari if you’re on a Mac — or maybe you’re using Firefox because someone told you Internet Explorer was...
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