Cutting ties with Google Ads
Ads from Google are too scammy and too intrusive. I should have turned them off long ago. Now I have. If you appreciate that, please consider kicking in a few bucks to make up for the lost revenue.
Category Archives: Blogging
How not to design a monthly statement email
This Massachusetts Department of Transportation web site provides the user with an incredibly poor user experience!
On Ben Edelman and Sichuan Garden
As someone who shares Ben Edelman’s passion for standing up to businesses that rip off consumers (and someone who’s been doing it for longer than he has!), I feel compelled to weigh in on the recent hubbub. There are four different aspects to this incident that need to be untangled: the facts; the law; Edelman’s conduct;… Read More: On Ben Edelman and Sichuan Garden »
MIT Peeps: Have you heard what JonMon is up to nowadays?
This post is mostly for the benefit of my fellow MIT alumni. Remember Jonathan Monsarrat? If so, then you may have gotten the same impression of him back at the ‘tute that I did, to wit, that he gave off creep vibes. Judging from what has been written about him online since then, he’s done… Read More: MIT Peeps: Have you heard what JonMon is up to… »
Astroturf for (or against?) Obama
An interesting comment showed up a few hours ago on an earlier blog posting of mine about Barack Obama: “Just wanted to say that I am eployed at a large Pharmaceutical company in Clayton NC and I support Barack Obama with all my heart. I would love for all my friends and colleagues to re-elect… Read More: Astroturf for (or against?) Obama »
WordPress inadvertent disclosure bug
As I previously wrote, I recently had to change my password on over 300 Web sites because my default “medium-security password” was compromised. The compromise was caused by a bug in the WordPress blogging platform which can result in inadvertent disclosure of information when content is pasted into the WYSIWYG text editor built into WordPress.… Read More: WordPress inadvertent disclosure bug »
NYC Fox News ticker reports the story
I snagged this video with my phone on the way out of the News Corporation building in NYC after I was interviewed on “Fox & Friends”. I found it amusing, and some of you might too:
Hey, LJ users! A little help?
Turns out my LJ.com syndication feed (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/jik_blog/) has been broken since I installed bookmarkify in March. LJ decided that my entries were too big with all the bookmarkify links in them. So I’ve told bookmarkify to only include the Digg link and none of the others. It would have been nice if somebody at LJ… Read More: Hey, LJ users! A little help? »
Ted Belman and the anti-Obama Smear Machine
Right-wing pro-Israel blogger Ted Belman has recently embarrassed himself by joining the stampede of conservative Republicans so desperate to keep Senator Barack Obama out of the White House that they’ll say just about anything to scare people out of voting for him. Make no mistake, Belman and his ilk are scared. The smear tactics which… Read More: Ted Belman and the anti-Obama Smear Machine »
I’m being “syndicated” on Jewneric
I’ve been invited to be a contributor to Jewneric. I’ll be “simulblogging” my Judaism-related articles on my blog here as well as on Jewneric. If one of the articles here piques your interest, you may wish to follow the comments about it on Jewneric as well as here. I’ll post cross-links at the ends of… Read More: I’m being “syndicated” on Jewneric »