Category Archives: The Internet

I've decided I like WordPress

It’s been just over a month since I put the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries back online and I love the way WordPress works. To be fair, I loved the way the Melody fork of MovableType worked too and, I’d rather … Continue reading

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Some poorly framed thoughts on why I'm unhappy with SMS and social networking tools

Now that I have a mobile phone, I’ve decided to rant about this and e-mail. I’ve ranted about e-mail before. I think it was poorly implemented to start with, lacking friendly, easy to use crypto for example, and got worse … Continue reading

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Back in the World Wide Web

So, after two years, I’ve nearly cut all ties to Facebook. I say “nearly” because I haven’t deactivated my account and do plan to check it occasionally to see what my friends there are doing. What I mean is that … Continue reading

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The Web equivalent of Reno, Nevada

So a friend of mine sent me an e-mail from an Internet connection near some sunny beach overseas telling me he has a MySpace page. This drove me into paroxysms of pointless, defensive snootiness where I told him that he … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer 7, First Beta

Well, everyone else is talking about it and, me being a webmaster, I really should say something but, I really don’t have much because I’m not a MSDN subscriber so, I can’t get a legal copy. Today, I’ve been reading … Continue reading

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Video Phone!

So around noon yesterday, I bought a cheap video capture device. I did this to let someone remotely sit in on one of my gaming sessions. It was pretty fun but also pretty distracting, what with technical hitches and all. … Continue reading

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Wireless security, GUI cruft, Web accessibility and the law

A good primer on making your wireless LAN secure against wardriving. They’ve managed to make microsopic batteries powered by nuclear decay. The limitations of computer hardware in the past had forced the makers of graphical user interfaces to do things … Continue reading

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Backlinking, is there are better way?

Happy Halloween! Anyway, while reading the redesigned Blogdex, I came across an article about backlinking and web logs. This interested me so I figured I’d add a little heat and noise to the conversation. So far as I know, there … Continue reading

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Junkbuster Update and the Human Clock

Privoxy is the geek’s tool (Read that as, “you have to have a vague understanding how HTTP and proxies work in order to use it.”) for combating popups and other forms of obnoxious Web advertising. It is a revision of … Continue reading

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Baby Screams, Fuel Cells, Paranoia and the Semantic Web

Over the last few weeks I read: About Sonic weapons based on backmastered baby screams. An interesting article critical of the semantic web concept. I, being a markup purist, am a true believer in the semantic web idea. Another interesting … Continue reading

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