Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Category: Internet

  • Misunderstanding Links?

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    In running an online class system, we encounter situations where we have to gather data and present to the best of our ability past events. We thoroughly comb through the evidence and carefully present our findings with an admission as to how certain we can be about the evidence. Often the stories about events as…

  • Made Stumbleupon.com?

    Traffic to this web site “spiked” yesterday. It only tripled to about 300 page views in a day. Nothing compared to what we get at work. 🙂 I was curious why the sudden burst almost exclusively to the Quotes to Make You Think page. The referrer for 108 of the 168 visitors that day was…

  • Fixed Blogroll

    Apparently this WordPress template is ancient? It was using a really old call to display the blogroll. Modified the template to use wp_list_bookmarks and suddenly you can see the categories again.

  • YouTube

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    Finally got over my YouTube issue…. Basically, the upload form said files were limited to 100MB. That’s like 1 minute for the default settings of my Canon Elph (640×480 @ 60 fps). So I end up not having to use longer videos I shot. Until I found Google Video had a downloadable tool to push…

  • Big Whoops

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    So Dreamhost who I use for hosting my domains had a big whoops today. I saw an email from them where they charged me for $359 (for the same stuff x2). I sent a WTH email. I read my RSS feeds next and found out the above issue. I understand the mistake. I appreciate the…

  • Why One Should Not Connect With Egoists on Social Networks

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    “Second, if you add me as a friend I assume you want me to send you emails and interact with you.” — Plaxo: the social monster? – Scobleizer Robert is the geek equivalent of Paris Hilton or Brittany Spears or Lindsey Lohan: A sad trainwreck we all thank a higher being that its not us.…

  • Are You a Battery?

    Yup. I would take the blue pill every time. 🙂 I’m happy being a battery. If I didn’t want Facebook to have control of my data, then I would not give that data to Facebook. Show your anger with your feet. Leave and make all of your zombie followers go with you! Build your own…

  • Suck It Up And Pay the Price

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    Doesn’t it always look like this? User runs script against service. Script operates so quickly and sucks so much traffic its obvious its a script. Service’s automates systems detects the abuse. User gets automated notice about violation of Terms of Use and prevention from accessing the site. User pitches a fit because he is “famous”.…

  • New Song of Ice and Fire sample

    George R. R. Martin posted a new sample for A Dance With Dragons to his web site. Read it and weep. The new book is not finished…