Category: From The Archives
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The Door
A few days ago I started a bit of a curfuffle about LeoLaporte on digg.com, see: Call For Help Tracker.. GreatTorrents… As you can see if you read the thread, I said that I thought L LaP was “the biggest puppet ever,” based on his performance on Call For Help Canada. If you haven’t had…
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Mutton Button
The old adage about wolves in sheep’s clothes is probably applicable to my new favorite interweb site, start.com/1/. Start.com is essentially a really simple web based rss reader (really simple really simple syndication?) combined with the recently improved MSN search engine. I like the page so much that i’ve made it my homepage, causing me…
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Eureka!
I am presently writing this post from Mozilla Thunderbird. The latest behind the scenes addition to my awesome website. Inspired by my recent adventures in moblogging, I wrote a script to check a specific (supersecret) email box for new mail. The mail is then parsed for relevant data (thanks to Ian for pointing pointing out…
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Notres Langues Nous Trompent
Gmaps. It’s taken google too bring satellite imagery to the geek masses. I recall mapquest using microsoft’s terraserver maps a few years ago. Evidently that didn’t pan out, at present I can’t seem to find a satellite map anywhere on mapquest. Gmaps is a blog compiling interesting sites as seen by “google’s” satellite. Two minor…
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Internet Security
There has been a lot of talk recently about online password security. It seems that a lot of people are still using really easy passwords and even more people write down their passwords. This is apparently a major problem. As a solution,”experts” are tossing around some “new” ideas like passphrases and multiple security keys. [i’ve…