Internet

A "white screen of death" turns your blog pages to white. The image doesn't show the problem in a literal way.

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A few days ago I updated a plugin I use for my WordPress blog but the operation had an unwelcome consequence: a totally white screen. The refresh didn’t change the result and after a few tries I saw that all the pages gave that result, both in the control panel and in the blog. After a moment of panic I did a Google search because I didn’t know the problem and I solved it in a few minutes thanks to the solution found on an official WordPress support page. However, after thinking about the problem, I wondered how many bloggers would be able to solve it so quickly.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is one of the people who seek new year’s resolutions. He’s not an ordinary person and his focus is always on the Internet so it was almost inevitable that sooner or later he’d crowdsourcing to find some new ideas for his personal challenge. That’s what he did at the end of 2014 to find a new year’s resolution for 2015.

Yahoo Directory home page through archive.org

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At the end of 2014 Yahoo! closed its historical web directory Yahoo! Directory after about 20 years. This move is part of one of the latest reorganization of the company’s services, the one announced in September 2014. The difference is that this time Yahoo! closed one of the first great services that helped the world wide web pioneers to find interesting websites.

Poster of the movie The Interview lately at the center of the news

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A few hours North Korea came back online after a day in which its Internet connections had become unstable and then got completely cut off. There are no official explanations on the causes of the blackout but the timing suggests a cyber attack, possibly by the USA. Suspicions follow the open accusations by the USA to North Korea for the attacks and threats to Sony that led to the decision not to distribute the movie “The Interview”.

The Digital Einstein Papers home page

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A collaboration between the American University of Princeton and the Israeli Hebrew University of Jerusalem allowed to put on line over 80,000 pages of documents written by Albert Einstein in the Digital Einstein project. The documents correspond to a set of paper books published in recent years by the Princeton University Press.

That’s not the only project that aims to make all the writings of the great scientist available. In recent years the University of Jerusalem created the “Einstein Archives Online”. Both projects are carried out with the collaboration of CalTech and include not only scientific papers but also letters and other personal writings.