The first interesting thing I came across today and couldn’t help but blogging about it was an article posted more than a month ago by Chris, one of my best internet buddies I’ve ever met. Frustrated by the fact to renew his anti-virus license every year, he jumps on investigation about alternatives to secure his system. Finally comes to a serious interesting conclusion:

I couldn’t help but notice that many companies are offering free 90-day trials, and at the very least offer 30 days to test the waters. It then dawned on me. What if I only used a program for it’s trial period, and never actually paid for any anti-virus programs? Would that work, could it work?….

….When this one expires, I’ll move on, possibly to Computer Associates, or maybe Kaspersky. All told, among the anti-virus programs worth using, there is well over 2 years worth of free trials worth taking advantage of. I think that should be enough.

I must admit it’s quite of an analyze. There is one thing, however, it’s hard to have the motivation of installing and uninstalling software this days, as we even forget sometimes, after a reformat, that the next to-do thing is installing an anti-virus. As a Windows user, I think Microsoft should have insisted on embedding a security software rather than the crappy Internet Explorer. Wouldn’t that be more worth?

Next particularly interesting thing happened at Wakoopa. At the very bottom-right on their site’s footer, Wakoopa updates some statements about software. The most funniest one I read until today was:

Did you know women spend twice as much time in Photoshop than men? We do. Wakoopa knows software.

Interesting curiosity to be aware of nevertheless, I didn’t know that women consider us men software.

Speaking of interestingness, I can’t go along and not mention “Twitter. It’s Spam time.” I’m totally frustrated by that, but seems to not be the only one though. But not for long. The good dudes behind Twitter has taken this issue very seriously. For the latest news about anti-spam improvements you’re ought to check the Stop Twitter Spam Blog and probably even participate in the Polls.

Last but not least, Robert Nyman a web developer and UI architect from Sweden has taken the guts to publicly encourage developers to not waste their production time trying to fix IE6 CSS issues.
What a wonderful initiative if you ask me. I would love to experience the change, though not each of us for various circumstances could accept this decision. I personally declare to be immediately next after Robert.

What’s you’re thought on this?

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