fplanque: IT world

My take on the topic... Why should a legitimate business need to worry about branding? Well, if you wait long enough, any type of business is bound to be commoditized at some point. Actually, they even managed to commoditize artistic creation! They… more »

When looking at the sitemaps protocol which is now endorsed by Google, Yahoo and MSN, I can't help but crying about how obscure the documentation is, especially for the <priority> element. Please note that the priority you assign to a page is n… more »

It was bound to happen. Macromedia's (well, Adobe's) Flash player finally evolved into a very complete Virtual Machine. They call it Apollo. It basically solves the same problem Java has tried to solve for years: write once, run anywhere. Though it… more »

I guess many people spend about one third of their time at work. Remove sleep time and people spend half of their awake time at work! Yet they tend to focus more on the other half. The half that they feel is their "free time". The half they spend i… more »