Phil Butler Unplugged

Microsoft and Me.dium have teamed up to showcase the new IE8 Beta and a special application of Me.dium technology at Mix 08. Microsoft hand selected Me.dium to develop and IE friendly application just a week before the launch, and my Me.dium friends beat the deadline with an application designed to highlight IE8’s new functionality. Specifically, [...]

An era ends as Fidel Castro steps down as President of Cuba. Castro has been in ill health for some time, but the world was fairly shocked when news of his resignation emerged. Castro came to power back in 1959 with the revolutionary overthrow of Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Castro resigned just a few days prior [...]

I don’t watch much TV these days, but I was passing the tube when I noticed Al Gore giving his acceptance speech for winning the Nobel Prize for “An Inconvenient Truth”, so I took some moments to give a listen. I expect most of us have seen the film, and of course experienced the discourse [...]

South Korea is one of the most “wired” nations on the planet as is commonly known. I ran across an interesting bit of news today dealing with what can be termed “Web addiction”. Evidently the South Korean government has established a network of 140 Internet addiction centers to curb compulsive Internet usage by “afflicted” people. [...]

The death toll in Bangladesh is staggering and will probably exceed 2000 before all searches are over. The low lying country was smashed by super cyclone Sidr on Thursday with winds in excess of 155 mph. Rescue efforts are underway with Military ships and helicopters trying to reach the thousands of survivors of the [...]