A mouthful’O buzzwords, eh? Bear with me…
Much has been said about tagging and tag clouds; it seems there’s no shortage of these simple ideas mostly because they provide new ways to get a glimpse of information that is traditionally difficult to understand. After all, tag clouds provide ways to make unanticipated connections with information that’s [...]

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If you’ve seen references to Network Address Translation (NAT) but never really dug into what it does and why we have it, this 411 installment is for you.
Old School IP
Once upon a time, 4.3 billion possible IP addresses was enough for everybody. Oh, those days were so simple, weren’t they? Now [...]

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I’m writing a series for Wired.com about neurotechnology and my son. Here’s an excerpt:
What if your computer missed your keystrokes whenever it was playing music? Or what if it couldn’t read from the hard drive when a picture was on the screen? Or maybe every time the CD tray opened, a random window would [...]

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