Category: Internet


  • This hilarious email exchange at about hackers, CentOS, a web host, and a former computer systems engineer turned politician made my evening. LOL

  • This is an interesting opinion piece. I kind of think of the Bank of America commercial where the CTO or CIO says their goal is not to get right almost every time but to get it right once and replicate it every time. Wired News: Why Data Mining Won’t Stop Terror Let’s look at some…

  • Google Agrees to Settle ‘Click Fraud’ Case – Yahoo! News Mountain View, Calif.-based Google makes virtually all of its money from text-based advertising links that trigger commissions each time they are clicked on. Besides enriching Google, the system has been a boon for advertisers, whose sales have been boosted by an increased traffic from prospective…

  • This makes me think. Not sure I really agree or disagree. PostSecret (PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.)

  • This article has sat in the back of my mind for quite a while. It is one the major reasons I use Bloglines. I doubt we are being inundated by them. One can always hope…. Boing Boing: Badly behaved RSS readers gobble bandwidth Glenn Fleishman has posted some analysis of the impact of RSS aggregators…

  • Textism: Word HTML Cleaner A tool that strips proprietary Microsoft tags and other cruft from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting intact. File sizes are greatly reduced, and the returned HTML is easier to read, revise and employ.

  • Maybe this is my stint working in a library back as a college student. There were some shady folks who came into the library to look up pictures of women with huge, obviously fake breasts. Plus the gutteral laugh at the ones where each had twice the volume of the woman’s head. They did this…

  • For my anti-Trillian friends. Personally, I will stick with Trillian Pro3. It works for very well for me and has not presented the problems others have reported on the 3 different systems I use. Miranda Instant Messenger Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client.No bloat, it’s Easy and Small! Miranda IM is designed…

  • Looking at the HTML for this web site makes my head hurt. Don’t save your web site in Internet Explorer. EVER!! 🙁 Actually, it is my personal opinion that everyone should be able to read the HTML for the web pages they create.