December 27, 2008 – 8:47 am
Surely soon to be proposed by Queen Nancy Websites could be given cinema-style age-ratings under plans by the Government to limit access to “unacceptable” material, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham warned. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Burnham said “clearer standards” were needed as to what could be displayed online. He said it was […]
December 27, 2008 – 7:33 am
Starting your day off with a bit of humor. This story is about a week old, but, still relevant GateHouse Media Inc. sued the Boston Globe’s parent company, claiming its new practice of grabbing headlines from GateHouse Web sites constitutes copyright infringement. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston, GateHouse asks […]
November 19, 2008 – 9:25 pm
So, Dreamhost migrated my little spot on the Interwebz to a new server, as the other one was getting massively bogged down, as well as old. Seems there are a few folks who might need to understand programs like Bad Behavior and other bot blockers. Everything seem to be working well? Speed better?
November 15, 2008 – 8:56 pm
This is serious stuff folks Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office in 65 days. But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to […]
September 29, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Stupid technology. Was just cruising the Interwebz, screen went insane, shut it down, now it will not boot. Press the power button, and nothing happens but some pretty lights. No fan, no start up sounds. Pretty sure it is not the hard drive (thank goodness for small favors,) so, I should be able to hook […]
September 3, 2008 – 7:56 am
To follow up on my quick post on Google Chrome, it is still lightning fast. It is a great platform for cruising the Interwebz. Not so great for blogging. When you do a cut and paste from other sites in to the WordPress visual editor, it adds TONS of font scripts which come from the […]
September 3, 2008 – 1:04 am
Holy cow! Thing is fast! Some CSS pages (not to be a smart ass, but, that is what our blogs use) look slightly funny in certain places, but, damn, fast! I’ll reserve judgement till I have played with it a week or so. Not looking forward to have to check a 4th browser when developing […]
August 13, 2008 – 1:17 pm
Such is reported by the Business and Media Institute There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content […]
June 30, 2008 – 9:29 pm
Yes, new plugins, yea, yea! The first one is TTC WordPress Security Tool. This one “blocks cross-site script attempts, ip numbers of ill behaved people and bots and bans bad user agents.” You can also manually blacklist IP address. I installed this because neither Akismet nor Bad Behavior can really manually block. Spam Karma 2 […]
March 15, 2008 – 10:13 am
Many of you remember what happened to snapped shot: the AP sent him a cease and desist order, and demanded that he removed all AP photos from his site. This began a long discussion, with Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee contacting the AP, and coming to the conclusion According to the AP’s response posted above, […]
