• 3 Types of Productivity – Making the Most of a Working Day

    Digital Digressions: 3 Types of Productivity – Making the Most of a Working Day A fantastic article. His general classifications of productivity are short, concise and extremely accurate. This definitely applies to a greater part of my working life, particularly planning your todo lists based around the type of input each requires: 1. If your…

  • Mobile Asia Competition 2006

    Korea is the closest thing to a place where you can run into the future every day, while casually munching a kimchee pajeon and sipping some Soju. Suhjung and the Nabi crew have put together another great mobile competition – the Mobile Asia Competition 2006 – enter quick while there’s still time! (Submissions end 31…

  • Cyworld US launches! (now with added bugs!)

    The US launch of the supercute Korean social network Cyworld was marred for me (and many others) by a PHP error which prevented me from completing my profile. Sheesh! You’d think that the experience of running the largest social network in Korea as well as having branches in Taiwan, Japan and China would have prevented…

  • Bluetooth neologisms and portmanteaus

    I was just writing something up for African Communications on Bluetooth, so I did a survey of some of the mashups out there – here is what I found: Bluejacking – sending unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to any phones in the area. Derived from Bluetooth + hijack, although the only hijacking that occurs is that…

  • Free remote backup: passwordless SSH + Rsync

    If you’ve always wanted to backup your files to a remote server, but never really knew how – here’s a quick and easy way to do it: 1. Create a passwordless SSH setup Login into your account on your [Linux, Unix, BSD, OS X] system. Type in ssh-keygen -t dsa Hit Enter three times. This…

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