Tag Archives: writer

The Year Of The Worm

Nothing new in this, but a fascinating summary of this year’s viruses, and a sober reminder of how tricky it’s all getting: F-Secure’s review of 2003 makes for interesting reading. This for example, on how the Slammer worm caused so much network traffic: In theory, there are some 4 billion public IP addresses on the… Read More »

News: Journalist Blogs, Gets Fired

 And more on the growing pains of technology and journalism from Poynter: “[name removed at request of journalist] a Chinese journalist who worked for the Bloomberg news service, was fired because of statements made on his personal Weblog. [name removed] is not the first journalist to experience troubles because of his personal Web site. A… Read More »

Column: AlphaSmarts

Loose Wire — Frustrated Writers, Take Note: This Palm-powered, plain-vanilla, word-producing machine has none of the bells and whistles of other computers and won’t break your back or the bank — meaning more time for haiku By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 26 June 2003 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review (c) 2003, Dow Jones… Read More »