Archive for July 28th, 2006

Effort to Protect Young People Blocks Access to Certain Web Sites in Schools and Libraries

Friday, July 28th, 2006

One of the Wikimania volunteers sent me the link to this article about an effort in the US House of Representatives to block access to certain Web sites from schools and libraries in an effort to protect children and young adults from potential predators on the Internet. Due to the ability of sexual and other [...]

Backing Up Hard Drives

Friday, July 28th, 2006

While I was looking for information about computer power bricks this morning, since mine decided to catch fire, I stumbled across this Wall Street Journal Loose Wire column giving advice about making images of hard drives as a way to back up data. Small world: Berkman Fellow David Weinberger mentions at the end that disk [...]


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