Posts Tagged ‘technical stuff’
Turkish Hackers
12:30AM via vi tex editor My website was hacked a few hours by some fun-loving Turks. I have a ticket in my web host provider. I don’t know if was caused by my own WordPress security holes or the web host provider’s security holes. The WordPress database is fine [Read More]
Domain discrimination!
I tried to enter an email address that uses my domain in order to register for something on the AT&T wireless site. The email address entered is not valid. Please provide a valid email address in the following format: User@Domain.Extension Wait until the fine people of [Read More]
I spoke too soon…Verizon, you suck, too
I was telling the sales rep at Costco that while it would be good to have the same functionality in my new phone that I had with my old one, I didn’t care too much about the music player or getting TV on my phone or having a full keyboard. I wanted a decent phone [Read More]
Colored labels!
Gmail has colored labels Herman has his cow hooves…I’ve got my colored labels… [Read More]
The little things that can make a day
I’ve never been able to figure out how to get a check mark character in an Excel document. Wingdings, cell formula: =char(0252) Gets you this: (well, I don’t know how to render a check mark in HTML) [Read More]
Spamazon
PC World – Spam Law Test (circa 2004) Amazon.com, which continued to send e-mail after our opt-out request, acknowledged the error. A spokesperson blamed a technical aberration, which the company tells us has since been corrected. I suspect the spokesperson for Amazon [Read More]
Fun with avatars
Playing with Yahoo! Answers. Wait, that’s the site I just railed against the other day because of the enormous stupidity and or evil of the responses to Nancy Pelosi’s question about climate change. Whatever. I just took some prescription cough medicine, [Read More]
Got a LiveJournal? Better back it up, just in case
UPDATE (5/31/07) – Six Apart CEO wrote a pretty sincere mea culpa on the main LiveJournal website today, which makes my original rant pretty moot, so I’ll stick a “more” tag around it… … [Read More]
Duke Medicine’s Healthview Website
I’ve been ripping on some websites recently, so I thought I’d point out where I’ve had a good customer experience. Most of my healthcare is through some arm of Duke Health (they have about a thousand arms, it seems, at this point). The used to use [Read More]
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Inspiring story on 60 Minutes earlier tonight about One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a $100 laptop for the world’s children’s education [Read More]
