Category: Internet


  • Separate Populations?

    What are my neighbors doing? Curiosity about that question resulted in some conflicting data. Ordered by when I added the RSS feed for them. search.twitter.com for “Athens GA”  – results are full of people talking about Athens, GA not in Athens, GA. Useful for people coming into town for an event. TweetLocal search for “Athens, GA”…

  • reCAPTCHA and Chrome

    Was using this RSVP form with Google Chrome and found the reCAPTCHA was telling me I repeatedly failed the Turing test. After the sixth time, I decided it might be my browser, so I tried it in Firefox which worked fine. Curious, I went looking for a possible problem between reCAPTCHA and Chrome. According to…

  • reCAPTCHA and Chrome

    Was using this RSVP form with Google Chrome and found the reCAPTCHA was telling me I repeatedly failed the Turing test. After the sixth time, I decided it might be my browser, so I tried it in Firefox which worked fine. Curious, I went looking for a possible problem between reCAPTCHA and Chrome. According to…

  • It drives me nuts to listen to 24-hour network news cover an important event such as the Mumbai attacks earlier. Give me facts. I got better information off the Twitter search for Mumbai than 30 minutes of CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC.

  • LiveJournal’s new logo says “UndeadJournal”. I am sure that is so they would not cause offense by calling themselves DeadJournal, a long-time competitor. Unfortunately, the domain http://undeadjournal.com/ redirects to http://jpdefillippo.com/blog/. Maybe that means undead is safe? Guess I could leave a comment and ask how JP feels? Naw.

  • Why did you do it, Flickr? Why? Originally uploaded by issuez Changes to the Flickr home page and Facebook’s overall UI were intended to make them more streamlined. So why is there a vocal rejection of these UI changes? Well, management is focused on attracting new users. In their minds, the people using the system…

  • Broken Links

    I just broke all your links to anything other than this blog’s pages (home, quotes, reading, about). Sorry. The new autosave putting gaps in the post sequence annoyed me. And…. it is 1:30am. Search lijit for it or leave a comment. I’ll do my best to direct you.

  • Flickr Group Admin

    Got this odd message from Flickr… The last administrator of [group name] has left the group and you have been made into an administrator. This is because you are the longest serving member of the group. Well done 🙂 This is an interesting way of ensuring someone is an administrator of a group. Unfortunately, I have…

  • For a while I have meant to do this. Here I am with insomnia, so here goes… I have implemented Gravatars for the this Blue Zinfindel theme. Here is coding I used to implement it to this theme’s comments.php (WP Design > Theme Editor > Comments). Normal text is for context. Bold is what I…