onmousedown handler: chrome vs. firefox

Google uses different onmousedown handlers for Firefox and Chrome when they are beaming click information back to the mothership. Why?

Security Alert: GMAIL Session ID Design

I’ve never really bothered to look into GMAIL security because I figured, hey, it’s Google. They generally know what they’re doing. But after reading this, and living though my own experiences with my gmail account getting hacked, it made me question Google’s decision-making process.
“Here’s the exploit: All it takes to steal someone’s Gmail [...]

Who knows TCP/IP?

This image was originally an HTML page by friend had made back in the day. I wanted to see it again and started to do search: How many entries do you think Google has for “who know TCP/IP“? 1,942,321? 3,213,798? 25,000?
Nope. More like 6. And of course [...]

GReader’s “Shared Items” is Awesome

Duncan Riley writes a post over on techcrunch saying that “So-called link blogs in Reader already break copyright and in a small way undermine blogs and content creators. “
What? Republishing syndicated content is breaking copyright law? C’mon, it’s not like techcrunch to sound like a crotchty old man who is wrong.
“RSS is an XML-based [...]