Category: Tech stuff
Test post
WordPress is being particularly recalcitrant. Testing editing. Testing adding a totally random link. …ok, looks like it was a db issue after all. Yay backups.
Public service announcement
If you are a spammer who likes to use any of my domains as spoofed addresses for your nasty little missives, causing me to have to pick my real email
Snort
(The alt text was “You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback”)
It is not a “social graph”
Lately some of the more pretentious online folks have started calling those pretty pictures of how your Facebook profile (del.icio.us profile, LinkedIn profile, etc.) relates to other profiles a “social
Games!
I’m not much of a gamer. I’ve played various versions of Civ since about 1994, but not much else… the gunfire sounds in first-person shooters make me tense, and when
I has a LOLcode
HAI I HAS A VAR ITZ 1 IM IN YR LOOP VISIBLE VAR IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 39 O RLY? YA RLY GTFO NO WAI UP VAR!!1 KTHX KTHX KTHXBYE
Your password will expire in 11 days. Change it now?
A nice passage from the middle of a long (and recommended) Boxes and Arrows post: A good password is one that cannot be guessed. And there within lies the problem.
Where’s my jetpack?
Wide-eyed children of the eighties watched in astonishment as Michael J. Fox (a.k.a. Marty McFly) shredded pavement on a hovering skateboard in Back to the Future Part II. The hoverboard
Self-actualized pit viper
(A found poem, comprising titles from my spam) I. A certain tenseness could be sensed in the atmosphere of the household I have read your treatise–a very useful work, but
Code! and Resist!
I’m at DrupalCamp, surrounded by a sea of (other) MacBook-toting geeks. There’s a conference of Marxists using the same space. A while ago they came in and carried off a
I has a pifanee!!1!
I love seeing academic stuff tossed at online phenomena — like this sort of sociological/linguistic analysis of lolcats via I Can Has Cheezburger? Check out this chart: Ha! Harbls in
Cisco vs. Apple
From The Joy of Tech:
xkcd nails it again
Fie on large, brainless corporations
From User Friendly: Reminds me of this: which is spoofing this ad: Why should we pay to watch ads in already-expensive products? Or be forced to sit through nasty warnings
Death to spammers
Lately I’ve noticed a bunch of spam has come in with delete-receipt requests attached. Since most people’s email programs auto-process such requests, it’s an efficient and invisible way of marking
Geotagged photosharing on Flickr
This is a really cool bit of technology. Flickr recently added — or perhaps it’s always been there and I haven’t noticed — the ability to geotag photos. Being Flickr,
I am large, I contain multitudes
(Update: Ivor Tossell responded to my rather ill-mannered rant with a very gracious note, thus disproving the hypothesis that the Internet exists solely so we can all call each other
The camera works
New computer smell!
Sitting next to me on the table, her power light breathing quietly in the way that Macs do, is my shiny new black MacBook — my present from D, who