After being Spammed and Attacked, Blue Security has shut down its anit-spam service. According to the Netcraft’s Performance Chart Blue Security’s web site was unavailable for an extended period on Sunday and Monday, and again this morning. The founder of Blue Security says it has shut down its anti-spam service, citing the impact of powerful [...]
Today I attended a seminar called Workplace IT Security & Communications Solutions for Today’s Business organized by one of our technology partner. It was an interesting event where several networking vendors presented about the IT Security Technology and the latest and greatest products they’ve in offer. Opening speech was given by the Senior Inspector WONG [...]
BackupMyBlog is a remote blog backup service. It’s first of it’s kind. With explosive growth of blogs I think we’ll see more similar services in the future. It’s free during beta testing period. Looks like they’ll start to charge once on production. The service can be used by any MySql and PHP based blogs. Currently [...]
It’s interesting and encouraging to know that researchers at Harvard, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation increases thickness of the Brain parts which are responsible for processing sensory input and dealing with attention. "Our data suggest that meditation practice can promote cortical plasticity in adults in areas [...]
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about Buddhism and am practicing (experimenting) mindfulness meditation. Just found an excellent article about mindfulness meditation (Zazen, vipassana, mindfulness meditation) which I wanted to share with you all. When we talk about meditation we tend to think that it should be done by sitting in a lotus position but [...]
This article points to a new study which suggests that between 5 to 10 percent of Internet surfers might have dangerous type of addiction related to the Internet. One problem with the term "Internet addiction" is the looseness of the term as it can be applied to any number of problematic behaviors. The researchers in [...]
I just came across a travel blog gzthinkpad.com with very detailed and useful information for travellers comming to Hong Kong. Hong Kong travel tips The most popular tourist attractions are Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong Park, Aw Boon Haw Gardens, Kowloon Park, Victoria Park, Ocean Park, Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong [...]
This bas relief depicts Maya Devi with her right hand holding on to a sal tree with a newborn child standing upright on a lotus petal, shedding an oval halo, around his head. During my recent visit to Po Lin Monastry I found some conflicting information about Buddha’s birth place. I saw some paintings with [...]
Yesterday was Buddha’s Birthday, a public holiday in Hong Kong and I went to visit Giant Buddha at Lantau Island with my wife and son. It is the world’s tallest outdoor seated bronze Buddha. A quite interesting day for my son, on our way to Po Lin Monastery he saw some live buffaloes and bulls [...]
Users who’ve signed with spam fighting company Blue Security have been recently targeted by spammers and attackers. And on Tuesday a massive denial-of-service attack was launched on Blue Security’s web site which then knocked millions of TypePad and LiveJournal blogs offline. This is how it happened: When Blue Security’s web site was hit by a [...]
