Okay. I have a gmail account. The e-mail for this very domain name goes through a Google Apps server. Guess what my default browser home page is? Yeah.
Hell, I use “Google” as a verb…don’t you?
On the other hand I passed on Wave, and will pass on Buzz. I’m not opposed to them, really, [...]
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Letting my geek flag fly.
We are Google, and we can kill you
I Sing the Praises of Akismet
Do you have a Wordpress blog? Are you using the free Akismet plugin? Why not?
This baby stops comment spam in its filthy tracks, my friends. You need to get a (free) Wordpress API (they tell you how to do it, it’s easy), then you install the plugin…done. It works so well [...]
Internet Explorer Must Die
If you’ve done any web development more ambitious than a few text links, you have already long since run up against the problem of how Microsoft constantly fails to conform to standards. For those of you who haven’t experienced the special joy of making otherwise correctly-coded web designs work in IE, you don’t know [...]
Beware of Theft via “ATM Traps”
I just heard about this today (and checked it out at Snopes), and it’s pretty bizarre. There’s a way to set an “ATM Trap” such that it captures your card, and then the thief does a bit of social engineering to get your PIN, only to recover the card a short time later and [...]
On Finding Gifts for Geeks
So, Xmas is past but if you had any hard core geeks on your gift list last year I’m betting it was a royal chore finding something “suitable” for them. Tell me, honestly: where do you think that gizmo is now?
My friends, I’m here to make your next foray into geek giftdom an experience [...]
The more complicated things get…
First off, don’t get me wrong: I love my new Alienware laptop. It rocks in so many ways I haven’t found them all yet. Still, some things are just too damned fancy in my godlike opinion.
For instance?
Instead of clicky-button controls for things like volume control, CD ejection, media control (what? your laptop [...]
Peremptory re-booting
I can’t be the only person who gets annoyed by Microsoft’s insistence on re-booting my machine without asking first. Who the hell do they think they are? I gave permission to install updates autonomously, but why does that include a re-boot? The proper procedure is to install the updates, then provide notice [...]
HTML 5 or XHTML 2?
Why don’t, instead of working feverishly on competing standards, these web geek gurus get together and come up with a single one that offers the best of both? Can anyone say ego issues?
The graphics display features in HTML 5 are attractive to a graphics geek like moi, but I have to pause: will HTML [...]
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