I work up at the crack of noon today determined to-do three things, buy a shaver, Clear my inbox, and write a new post on my blog. Started with attempting to clean my inbox. The first email I looked at was a reply to a post I made on Facebook. Logged in to Facebook to [...]
Ping: A call out in to the void in search of another. To check the existence of life on the other end. To seek a connection. A normal response to ping is “pong” Pong in answer to a ping: Yes, I do exist. I acknowledge your existence and you are no longer alone in this [...]
I record as much information as I possiably can from all my users, all the time, and I keep it for as long as I want to. I will sell it to anyone who asks and give it to anyone who puts a lawyers paper under my nose. * NOTE: This only applies to Abluestar.com. My other sites I got out [...]
They are spammers I got this email 6 times this week as they spammed all my different magazines searching for SEO link backs. There is a few things that piss me off about this email. They say that they really like my website, yet they send the same carbon copy email to all my magazines [...]
Daily WTF I got these weird errors while attempting to compile a Netburner project with NbEclipse. The project included the HTTP driver as well as some custom generated pages. After bashing my head against the wall for an hour I figure out what caused these errors. Because the HTTP driver has been loaded you are [...]
Plenty of fish stores your password as plain text in their database. I know this because they send you a weekly email with updates to the site and puts your password at the bottom of the email so you can easily login. Plenty of fish was hacked and their data was stolen by a 3rd party. They [...]
I picked up a pair of Hesh Skullcandy and they sounded great at the store. But when I got home and plugged them in to my phone it sounded dull, like it was missing all the treble. I connected them to my computer thinking it might be some setting or something with my phone, same [...]
You have no expectation of privacy. We will collect any and all information you or your computer is willing to give us and do whatever we want with that information. Use of this site is entirely optional. Use at your own risk. Today on Slashdot they have an article on privacy policy and it got me thinking [...]
Just one more reason why paypal sucks so, it seems that after 5 months of accepting donations via paypal, they have decided to freeze our account. as you may know, we are applying for non-profit status for the Flux Foundation with the intention of building community through art with the Temple of Flux and beyond. [...]
Canada’s DMCA (AKA Bill C-61) is back up in front of parliament again. We defeated it once before in summer of 2008 now they change it slightly call it a different name, emphasize different points and send it back to parliament. Basically they are hoping for “Crisis fatigue” “Crisis fatigue” – When a person is first told about a something like [...]
The problem I am using RPXnow to help simplify the OpenID login system on one of my sites EveryDayFiction.com. It works great for all OpenID providers but Windows Live ID. The users can login with Windows Live ID but when they try to logout of Hotmail or MSN or anything else that uses Windows Live [...]
“Re:Should be” by canajin56 (660655) on Wednesday December 16, @12:21PM (#30459990) At least you guys have a choice of providers. Here in Canada, we almost have government-backed monopolies with even higher monthly bills. Are you kidding? It’s not like we’re limited to the big 3 (Rogers, Telus, Bell), we have all sorts of other providers! There’s [...]
I ordered some cables from this online store in the states (I live in Canada) the cost in goods was $30 for both packages. The first time I ordered the cables I was in a rush so I used FedEx air 2 day, it cost me about $26 in shipping and arrived in two days. Total 30+21= $51 [...]