Nedko

Background

I cannot quite recall the first time I sent an email except that for all I know it was a long time ago and that it’s only intent was to notify its recipient that I had actually embraced the cyberspace. It was a time when having an email address was a privilege, not a right and 1200bps modems where top of the line. In today’s world I would be quite astonished if somebody told me they don’t have an email. In fact I will be even more surprised if they told me that they have an email which they don’t use on a daily basis to conduct personal and business activities but merely for the purpose of having one.

Today as email becomes more popular than traditional mail we send plain text emails, HTML emails and even rich media emails containing Flash. While the good old plaint text emails were easily readable they were ugly to say the least and not quite well organized as far as data presentation is concenred. With all the advantages that HTML layout and presantation brings to the table come some caveats: even if we assume that all your recepients will be able to see the content (if they have HTML enabled) we can’t be quite sure how it will look on different mail clients due to a number of reasons. The solution: Multipart emails. (more…)

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It has beaten many world records including the fastest, loudest, The Space Shuttle – the most sophisticated piece of machinery ever built by man. Although for almost everybody the space shuttle or also known as by it’s official name Space Transportation System (STS) needs no introduction we can briefly describe the most notable facts about it.

The Space Shuttle is used by the US government for human spaceflight missions and is designed with the goal to carry astronaut and load such as satellites and modules to the International Space Station. It was first launched on April 12, 1981 and is still in use to present day. Originally six shuttles were built but as the Enterprise was not designed for flight only five were deemed spaceworthy. As Challenger and Columbia were destroyed in takeoff and reentry disasters only 3 currently remain: Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. More information about the space shuttle and it’s structure you can find here. (more…)

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Want to increase the traffic to your blog and get more visitors? You’ve come to the right place. Read on and find out the fastest ways to improve the quality and drive traffic. Most beginners assume that once they start their blog they are done and all they have to do is sit down, relax and watch their traffic go up. Unfortunately they are wrong (more…)

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After Radiohead’s new album announcement that their new album called In Rainbows will only be available on http://www.radiohead.com/ and followed by a server crash due to the high demand comes the following on Nine Inch Nail’s website: “Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label”. (more…)

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In an effort to get more people familiar with the typical work environment of an extremely busy person I decided to present some descriptions and images of such places. And what better place to do that than some of the most famous, most successful, and busiest individuals on the planet. Starting with Bill Gates from Microsoft and Al Gore I will be adding new names to the list regularly. Anybody interested in contributing more interesting facts and people please feel free to do so.

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In the era of disposable mobile phones, the battery-powered five razor blades and on demand reality TV it seems we’ve pushed the boundaries of technology to the next level. However often with such change we don’t take into consideration the social implications that these new concepts can have on our life. Likewise the explosion of web content and exposure to the masses triggered a new, more global renaissance (French, from Middle French, rebirth, from Old French renaistre to be born again) of the modern technological world and it all happened in cyberspace.

Web 2.0 is often misunderstood and mistaken for something that it’s not. Neither the number nor the term itself were intended at signifying a new technology or a different standard. Rather, Web 2.0 is more of a phenomenon or a concept which describes the second generation of the web. It’s all about collaboration, sharing, social networking, building virtual communities. It’s about traversing spaces rather than data. About information filtering rather than gathering. Some go even further to describe Web 2.0 as the A.D. of the web and the Internet. While i am not sure of the extent to which I am willing to glorify the conceptual change we are experiencing I am wiling to admit: it is a breakthrough to revolutionize the way we use technology and think of time and space. Intended as a mere collection of academic papers and scientific documents, the Internet was by definition a collaboration tool. In ways a little too advanced for the age it was observed as an equivalent of a library where as we all know we enter the title of interest, go through the results much like the library index cards and once we found the desired content we checked it out. That was then. It will take almost 14 years for our brains to understand the value and capabilities of the invention of the Web (aka World Wide Web or WWW for short). That was the exact time it took Tim Berners-Lee to be awarded the Millennium Technology Prize and signify the importance of his invention. Now we traverse spaces, communities, collaborate and introduce new ways of communication and interaction.

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Welcome to my Blog. My name is Nedko Hristov and here is the tiny spot in cyberspace where some of my thoughts get rebirth in writing. I hope you will find some of the topics interesting. Not wanting to confuse anybody I feel the need to clarify that KoKo in the current context refers to me and not to any of the following: Koko the ape, the emperor of Japan, the language or the novel but rather to a nickname given to me by my friends.
Enjoy.

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