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Search engine startup Cuil came out of stealth this week and we tear into it and look at why they have an uphill battle to climb.

We take a bit of a tongue-in-cheek look at the best ways to ensure your data is safe wherever you go. Just don’t blame us if you get tased by the feds.

In this article, we discuss changes—some simple and some more complex—to the structure of your code that will make your it cleaner, easier to read, and easier to maintain.

We take a look at Facebook’s redesign and what we think of their new news feed page: two steps backward and for no good reason.

Browsing through my Google reader today, I came across this article. Apparently, today’s over-sexed, disease-proliferating, premarital-pregnancy-crazed teenage population is in need of the services of a teen dating site. While I attempt to refrain from a violent outburst of profanity-laced verbiage, let me highlight some of the finer points of this site (please remember that [...]

As I make my second post in this series, we find ourselves deep into the hot, Arizona summer. The weekly posts suggested by Bob faded quickly into bi-monthly posts. So let’s get caught up, shall we? Over the past month there has been a lot of action around here. We’re closing up several smaller projects [...]

We look at how open source can help government operate more efficiently, more effectively and more accurately.

One of our competitors uses an open Wiki for their company site. We examine why this is a completely flawed, idiotic idea.

Usability is an extraordinarily powerful characteristic of an application, tool or piece of equipment. (Or, for that matter, anything you “use” at all.) You can build an absolutely amazingly powerful product, but if no one can determine how to use the features you’ve built into it, you might as well not code them at all.

We look at Steve Gillmor’s incoherent rant on TechCrunch about how a URL-shortening service represents the future of all humanity. Or something.