I want to be somewhere i can see the roads
a place where everytime you breathe
a wish comes true...


Monday, April 28, 2008

Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting


Certainly the teaming of Jet Li and Jackie Chan is worth seeing alone. In my opinion a Jet Li movie is always a must see and now Jackie Chan being added is a huge bonus. But names alone don’t make a movie so a good script must be had in order to take it over the edge. The good news is the plot is great and neither legend is wasted with frivolous nonsense. This is a fantastic piece of storytelling with brilliant action. Any decent kung-fu movie is worth seeing and fans will be happy to know this is extraordinary.


Li and Chan play kung-fu masters who, in an interesting way, are playing themselves or at least their on-screen persona. That sounds far more mind-boggling than it is. The best part is that the movie brings nonstop entertainment that is just plain fun. It reminds me of the many fairy tales from the ’80s that were made for young boys.


Finally,"The Forbidden Kingdom” harkens back to the days of innocent fun that spares no stunt in order to purely entertain. This is a true fantasy film for all ages and will certainly appeal to tween boys who love martial arts and fantasy. It’s not attempting to be an epic–and never has to be. Every young boy will walk out of the theater wishing they were there. You can see it in the kid’s eyes as they leave in wonderment dreaming of the many moves and who they might use them on. I know how they feel–I left dreaming about performing a few of those moves myself.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Privacy: Information must be kept from unauthorized parties


Privacy is handled by encryption. In PKI (public key infrastructure) a message is encrypted by a public key, and decrypted by a private key. The public key is widely distributed, but only the recipient has the private key. For authentication (proving the identity of the sender, since only the sender has the particular key) the encrypted message is encrypted again, but this time with a private key. Such procedures form the basis of RSA (used by banks and governments) and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, used to encrypt emails).


As we all know, all of the informations can be found in the internet. Even this public key infrastructure or PKI is not safe enough to accommodate certain transactions in the internet. But even if that's the case, still it is one of the privileges that new technologies bring to the society. We cannot take it away easily because it is the new trend in doing business nowadays. It is very convenient especially to large-scale businessmen to transact businesses only by just merely sitting in a cafe. It is just in the businessmen's hands on how to keep their privacy properly. After all, informations must be kept from unauthorized parties.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Masters of the Web



Webmasters are practitioners of web communication. Typically, they are generalists with HTML expertise who manage all aspects of Web operations.




On larger sites, the webmaster will act as a coordinator and overseer to the activities of other people working on the site and is usually an employee of the owner of the Web site, hence webmaster can also be listed as an occupation. If the webmaster is hired by a larger Web site, or promoted to the position, they could do things from web design, to project management, or employee supervision.




In the early days of the use of the term "webmaster" (a take-off on the term "postmaster", the administrator of an e-mail system), this role encompassed all aspects of planning, coding, production, and user interface. The webmaster may have many of the duties of an information architect, including ensuring site usability, user experience and menu taxonomy.




However, since the late 90s, this type of webmaster role was typically only found working on small Web sites that could be managed by one person, or in environments where there was not a great deal of role definition. The current model tends to be more team oriented with a website manager or online producer leading a team consisting of web developers, designers, programmers, QA lead, Adobe Flash developers and often at least one usability expert or a UI/UE team. In established web development companies, especially those existing since the 90s, the term webmaster may be used by senior officers of the company, and may include usage such as "Webmaster-in-chief."




A broader definition of webmaster is a businessperson who uses online media to sell products and/or services. This broader definition of webmaster covers not just the technical aspects of overseeing Web site construction and maintenance but also management of content, advertising, marketing and order fulfillment for the Web site.




Core responsibilities of the webmaster include the regulation and management of access rights of different users of a web site, the appearance and setting up web site navigation. Content placement can be part of a webmaster's responsibilities, while content creation is typically not.




Typically, the webmaster is the agent who reads user feedback and complaints about site functionality.

Possible companies for webmasters are the following:

  • Cape Cod Computer Service
  • Cape Cod Internet
  • Cape Software
  • Cape Web Design
  • Coastal Software
  • Community Internet
  • Consulnet Computing Inc.
  • Creative Edge Enterprises, Inc.
  • DLFWebgroup Inc.
  • Geoserve Communications, Inc.