Do you want to know how the entire personal computer business started? Then you should watch “Pirates of Silicon Valley” on YouTube. This docudrama is quite fascinating and is supposed to be rather true to the facts according to Steve Wozniak who was a co-founder of Apple and built the first machines. If you think […]
“Terms of Use” or “Privacy Policy” are usually the documents one tries to avoid on a website because they are written in legalese that is boring. Besides that, we all know that we should not upload certain things on websites etc. However, since I wanted to find out something on Slideshare, I did venture off […]
Usually, you are told to keep it short and not drag on and on and on. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of using titles for books or articles in academia is well-known, and lots of people think the longer and more complicated their title the better. However, one organization tops it altogether. On the conference paper registration […]
Today is the first day of summer and it was a very pleasant day because I was reminded of less rain in the coming weeks, some more evenings with long daylight, nice temperatures, blue sky, and lots of sunshine. That’s why I was not prepared for the blow from a major furniture store. The advertisement […]
A few years ago the big word everybody used was “multimedia” (it even was the “Word of the Year” in Germany in 1995), then “2000 / Y2K” came around the corner and made it big. Nowadays, in the times of Web 2.0, version control has become the big obsession and might be about to take […]