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Category Archives: Technology
WikiLeaks Documentary
December 21 10
SVT is the national broadcaster of Sweden, similar to the UK’s BBC. They put together a documentary on Wikileaks; and it’s a very comprehensive, if not slightly sympathetic, look at the organization and who is behind it. I recommend watching. Fullskarm is Swedish for Fullscreen, apparently. And despite the video player’s controls, this documentary is [...]
bgat.es
November 28 10
I was playing around on Domainr a few weeks ago when I came across an unregistered Spanish domain that resembled my name, bgat.es. Being relatively compulsive when it comes to these things, I immediately grabbed it though GoDaddy… another fifteen minutes and I had the nameservers pointed to my Dreamhost account for hosting. Pretty painless. [...]
Super Secret Spy Stuff
November 20 10
It’s been a big week for me and my tinfoil hat. First I found K-9 Mail, an Android mail client that offers some improvements over the stock tool, like public key encryption support (with the APG add-on). Good stuff. I don’t get many emails encrypted with my public key, but it’s nice to know that [...]
Mobile Theme
July 3 10
At the request of one of my iPhone totin’ visitors, I have started experimenting with mobile themes. The WPtouch theme is installed right now, so certain iPhone/Android/BB visitors will be greeted with a much different looking blog. I’m not sold on the colors or feel of that theme, but I do see how it could [...]
My Antisocial Network
July 2 10
Do you wonder what all that tweetin’ is you hear so much about about? Perhaps you wanted to join a social network, but you were thrown off by all the “other people” lurking around? Maybe you do belong, but you’ve seen the fail whale* one too many times? Well, then do I have the place [...]
I am all that is man
May 2 10
Okay, there’s a wee bit of hyperbole in that title. I still can’t bench my own weight, explain baseball’s infield fly rule, or understand anything that happens under the hood of a car. So I might be a few skills short of getting into the Manly Man Club (where I imagine that Ted Nugent or [...]
On Privacy
April 4 10
I filled out our Census form today. Several “news” stories I saw about potential privacy implications, or rather about politicians and public figures spreading FUD about those privacy implications, was what reminded me to fill mine out. So is there a hidden government conspiracy to track you and everything about you? Are there giant databases [...]
WordPress RSS
March 20 10
I noticed that my RSS feed was only showing snippets of my posts, not the full text. A quick check of the Settings –> Reading section confirms that I’m set to output full text. And my Feedburner options are also set to output full text. So what gives? Google had the answer as usual. There [...]