You may have read about the recent security problems at Comodo (see also Comodo's own announcement about the incident ( Read more... )

... when web browsers seemed relatively lightweight. I think that must have been back in the days when most websites used little or no Javascript. These days it's not that unusual to see Firefox using 90% of one CPU and a great big slice of RAM on a relatively powerful desktop machine.
But never fear, I hear you say, Moore's Law to the rescue ( Read more... )

I've just been reminded of how, fundamentally, the web hasn't changed so much in the last ten years. I recently changed my screensaver of choice away from epicycle to webcollage. Webcollage downloads random images from the web and displays them like a collage on the screen. The images are sampled randomly from the web (by doing image searches ( Read more... )