This might be obvious to you, but during some recent conversations I noticed one thing over and over again: Freelancers, and entrepreneurs, don't blame others. If something bad happens to you and your impulse is to blame someone else (client! colleague! bank! landlord!) for the injustice, then maybe you shouldn't work as an independent.

Today, I had an epiphany. I've had my new HTC Desire for about two weeks. It's a very nice Android phone, looks awesome, and for the most part it's a delight to use. I have, however, been cursing the difficulty of text input.

Several countries in the Middle East have threatened to ban the BlackBerry service because it enables citizens to have secret conversations and peruse the web with privacy. This will be the start of a test of RIM's commitment to maintaining a global secure email service. However, governments should be careful what they wish for.

I haven't been to many libraries in my life but it seems that the more modern libraries nowadays are embracing a new concept; one where food, drinks and chit chat are allowed in designated areas. It gives the feel of a coffee shop, and I think that's where Li-bra-ry got the ideas for their shop from.

In WWE, Ricky Steamboat was never a main event superstar—up until WrestleMania 25 most fans only remembered his WrestleMania III match and some only knew that he came out with a pet dragon and breathes fire. Thanks to his outstanding performance at WrestleMania two years ago and his brief feud with current WWE superstar Chris Jericho, interest developed enough in Steamboat for WWE to release a three-disc DVD set that not only includes some of his most memorable WWE, NWA and wCw matches but a documentary on his career.

Dear YTL WiMAX, I am writing this to clarify my blog post that was written on 26 July 2010 with the title "YTL WiMAX to offer Android devices, launch might delay till next year". The reason I wrote that article is simply because I was so excited to find out that you are working on Android devices, and to be specific, its WiMAX Android devices. Something that I find very interesting since these are true mobile internet devices without mobile voice services.

Reviewers in the mainstream media have been really kind to "The Fever," for which I'm tremendously grateful, as their comments are getting the book out into the world. But I've awaited reviews from scientific journals with the most trepidation. Not only because the scientific community is notorious for its harsh judgments--scientists rarely give unreserved approval, especially when called upon to critique--but because I really wanted to get the science of malariology right in the book.

Australia's path to Internet filtration has become darker even after the new Prime Minister has taken office. After replacing the previous and unpopular head of Australia, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, the new PM, has a lot on her plate right now. Besides the challenges of being the first female PM in Australia's history, and the fact that the religious right is on the attack after she openly expressed her atheism, the debate on Australian Internet filtration seems to get only more complex each day, and she is providing no new hope for Internet rights activists, and freedom watchdogs.

My location might be France, or Denmark or somewhere else, but when I'm searching for something the language I require most of the time is English. That's my mental location. So it drives me nuts that Google sends me to http://google.fr, even when I log into iGoogle and get my personalized Google index page.

On average, Americans who work in the private sector are struggling financially. Millions are unemployed and the rest may be looking at an additional decade of toil before they can retire (since their houses and 401ks are worth so much less). Should we feel sorry for these folks in the same way that we might feel sympathy for Zimbabweans or other victims of an incompetent government?

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