I got a couple of comment notifications in my email today and they're a prime example of why I have full comment moderation turned on. Somebody who signed themselves as "warhammer gold" and left comments on a couple of posts. Those comments were nothing but links for various domains involved in selling gold in a game called "Warhammer".
Needless to say I nuked 'em. I have zero patience for this crap and any comment that isn't somehow relevant to the post it's on will be deleted without a second thought.
I welcome comments. I even welcome comments that have urls in them as long as both the comments and the urls are relevant. Though if it gets really bad I'll just turn the things off entirely and not bother. It's not like *this* blog is making me any money.
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Two more great blogs
It's been a bit longer than I'd wanted since the last post but stuff happens.
In the meantime, I'm going to get right to the point here with a bit about a couple more blogs that I think readers will appreciate.
This time I'll start off with Off The Cuff (http://offthecuff.lurasbookcase.com) Off The Cuff's author writes in exactly that style... quite literally "Off The Cuff". The subtitle on the page is "An Arkansas view of the news, politics, entertainment, you name it." and that is exactly what you get. Don't let the part about "Arkansas view" fool you, There's plenty of Arkansans that have a good grip on current events and what is right (or wrong) with a lot of things going on in the world and Off The Cuff underscores this fact. Just because you live in the sticks doesn't mean you're ignorant or without a voice.
There are some entries there that are guaranteed to get you thinking about our world today and some of the really unfortunate trends that are growing in it such as this post "History Repeats Itself...If We Do Not Learn" that makes a very good point about the fact that most, if not all of the problems we're dealing with today have been around before and if we take the trouble to pay attention to history we can learn from past mistakes and have a shot at avoiding them. Then on the lighter side there's this really hilarious video that features "Three Clowns Of Late Night" in a mock brawl that does a great job of poking fun at policitians.
Another blog that is certain to be one you'll add to your "must read" list is Window Shopper (http://shopper.purrfectdomains.com). Window shopper is all about shopping in general and shopping online in particular. There are a lot of useful and informative entries such as "Tips For Saving on Ebay" with a bunch of good advice for anyone buying online, particularly on eBay. There's plenty more money saving advice such as this article "More Savings At Home And At The Store". Last but not least, lets not forget having a bit of fun with a Wierd Al video: "I Bought It On Ebay".
All in all, Off The Cuff and Window Shopper are both sites that will make fine additions to anyone's list of "I gotta keep up with that one". That's all for now. I'll be posting again in a day or ??? with more shameless promotion of a couple more blogs.
In the meantime, I'm going to get right to the point here with a bit about a couple more blogs that I think readers will appreciate.
This time I'll start off with Off The Cuff (http://offthecuff.lurasbookcase.com) Off The Cuff's author writes in exactly that style... quite literally "Off The Cuff". The subtitle on the page is "An Arkansas view of the news, politics, entertainment, you name it." and that is exactly what you get. Don't let the part about "Arkansas view" fool you, There's plenty of Arkansans that have a good grip on current events and what is right (or wrong) with a lot of things going on in the world and Off The Cuff underscores this fact. Just because you live in the sticks doesn't mean you're ignorant or without a voice.
There are some entries there that are guaranteed to get you thinking about our world today and some of the really unfortunate trends that are growing in it such as this post "History Repeats Itself...If We Do Not Learn" that makes a very good point about the fact that most, if not all of the problems we're dealing with today have been around before and if we take the trouble to pay attention to history we can learn from past mistakes and have a shot at avoiding them. Then on the lighter side there's this really hilarious video that features "Three Clowns Of Late Night" in a mock brawl that does a great job of poking fun at policitians.
Another blog that is certain to be one you'll add to your "must read" list is Window Shopper (http://shopper.purrfectdomains.com). Window shopper is all about shopping in general and shopping online in particular. There are a lot of useful and informative entries such as "Tips For Saving on Ebay" with a bunch of good advice for anyone buying online, particularly on eBay. There's plenty more money saving advice such as this article "More Savings At Home And At The Store". Last but not least, lets not forget having a bit of fun with a Wierd Al video: "I Bought It On Ebay".
All in all, Off The Cuff and Window Shopper are both sites that will make fine additions to anyone's list of "I gotta keep up with that one". That's all for now. I'll be posting again in a day or ??? with more shameless promotion of a couple more blogs.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Time For A Bit Of Shameless Promotion
That's right. I'm going to do a bit of shameless promotion of some other blogs and just to keep it from looking like a long spammy list of links in one post, I'm going to spread it out over a series of entries. I figure that ought to set me up for at least the next thirty (or more!) entries.
The first Blog I'm going to mention is God's Topshelf (http://godstopshelf.com). This is a Christian blog with a message based in the word of God and His love for all of us. It's entries range from favorite Christian music videos to thought provoking articles and Bible based lessons that aim to help the reader grow spiritually.
The second one is called "Blog Hunting" (http://bloghunting.com). It's a site that's sharing reviews of blogs and other things that the author has discovered. This is a new blog just getting started so don't be surprised to find that there's not a whole lot of stuff on there now. That is going to change and I'm certain that there's going to be some interesting blogs talked about here.
The first Blog I'm going to mention is God's Topshelf (http://godstopshelf.com). This is a Christian blog with a message based in the word of God and His love for all of us. It's entries range from favorite Christian music videos to thought provoking articles and Bible based lessons that aim to help the reader grow spiritually.
The second one is called "Blog Hunting" (http://bloghunting.com). It's a site that's sharing reviews of blogs and other things that the author has discovered. This is a new blog just getting started so don't be surprised to find that there's not a whole lot of stuff on there now. That is going to change and I'm certain that there's going to be some interesting blogs talked about here.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Stop Telecom Immunity
Here's something from the EFF action alert I just got.
The Senate has passed their version of the surveillance bill. This one grants immunity to telecoms that have taken part in illegal domestic spying and illegal wiretaps & so on.
It needs to be stopped.
The House version of this bill does NOT grant this immunity, this way the telecoms can be held responsible for taking part in illegal activities.
Don't waste any time. Take one minute and use this link to contact your representatives and ask them to support the house version of the surveillance bill.
The Senate has passed their version of the surveillance bill. This one grants immunity to telecoms that have taken part in illegal domestic spying and illegal wiretaps & so on.
It needs to be stopped.
The House version of this bill does NOT grant this immunity, this way the telecoms can be held responsible for taking part in illegal activities.
Don't waste any time. Take one minute and use this link to contact your representatives and ask them to support the house version of the surveillance bill.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
What's a blogger to do?
So many blog for $$ sites, so littel time.
Well, you'd think so anyway. Things aren't actually as rosy as they look. First there's payperpost... which up until recently has been great, but their latest modifications are killing them.. It's gotten nearly impossible to take an opp if your timing isn't JUST so. This means you can click "take opportunity" all day long and not earn a cent because after to do this you find out that all of the slots for that opp have been taken.. combine that with the reservation time that you can hold the opp going from 1 hour to *six* hours and you can pretty much forget it if you're not VERY blessed and manage to click into an opp just as it becomes available. wait one second too long and you're out in the cold
Blogitive is pretty good, easy to work with, they usually have enough opps to keep you busy, but sometimes the longer ones don't seem worth it at $5.00 for 300 words.
Blogsvertize is turning out to be ok, though if I *NEVER* see another "just say hi" opp again it'll be too soon.
There's some others that we're checking into and the jurr's still out on them.
In other news, A Peculiar Blog has been moved from Thingamablog to Wordpress 2.2 and I'm toying with the thought of moving I Am Not A Hamster to wordpress as well. I just wish I had found out about wordpress BEFORE I had gotten started with Thingamablog... Or that TAMB's authors had put in the ability to use some of the features that Wordpress does... like trackbacks and pingbacks and any of dozens of WP plugins
Well, you'd think so anyway. Things aren't actually as rosy as they look. First there's payperpost... which up until recently has been great, but their latest modifications are killing them.. It's gotten nearly impossible to take an opp if your timing isn't JUST so. This means you can click "take opportunity" all day long and not earn a cent because after to do this you find out that all of the slots for that opp have been taken.. combine that with the reservation time that you can hold the opp going from 1 hour to *six* hours and you can pretty much forget it if you're not VERY blessed and manage to click into an opp just as it becomes available. wait one second too long and you're out in the cold
Blogitive is pretty good, easy to work with, they usually have enough opps to keep you busy, but sometimes the longer ones don't seem worth it at $5.00 for 300 words.
Blogsvertize is turning out to be ok, though if I *NEVER* see another "just say hi" opp again it'll be too soon.
There's some others that we're checking into and the jurr's still out on them.
In other news, A Peculiar Blog has been moved from Thingamablog to Wordpress 2.2 and I'm toying with the thought of moving I Am Not A Hamster to wordpress as well. I just wish I had found out about wordpress BEFORE I had gotten started with Thingamablog... Or that TAMB's authors had put in the ability to use some of the features that Wordpress does... like trackbacks and pingbacks and any of dozens of WP plugins
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
VT College says wikipedia is not authoritative source
I ran across this because somebody decided that it belonged in the Technology News section on iwon.com, probably because it used the word 'online' or some sillyness.
Anywho, it seems that this college in Vermont has decided that Wikipedia cannot be used as an authoritative source in papers written by students. Next thing you know they'll decide that the only way to find information is in their brick and mortar library.
Anywho, it seems that this college in Vermont has decided that Wikipedia cannot be used as an authoritative source in papers written by students. Next thing you know they'll decide that the only way to find information is in their brick and mortar library.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Teraflops? Cool!
I just saw something interesting. It seems that Intel has come up with a chip that can actually do a shade over 1 teraflop. The chip that does it runs at 3.16 ghz and only used 62 watts of power in the process.
The first thing I can't help wondering is how much this thing cost and secondly, when (if ever) will we see home desktop pc's with teraflop cpu's?
Somehow I think we shouln't be running down to Circuit City just yet.
The first thing I can't help wondering is how much this thing cost and secondly, when (if ever) will we see home desktop pc's with teraflop cpu's?
Somehow I think we shouln't be running down to Circuit City just yet.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Anna Nicole Tech?!??
I have to say right of the bat that without reservation or doubt, there has been and continues to be entirely too much press and public attention on Anna Nicole Smith, her death, the death of her son, and anything else to do with her life.
But I think somebody has gone over the edge when they put one of this never ending flood of Anna Nicole stories in the Technology News section on iwon.com
Ok, granted, that's not exactly what I'd call a "mainstream media" news outlet, but still somebody there decided that just because the headline of the AP story they scraped had the word "online" in it, that it belonged in Technology news. Sorry folks, that's assinine. It's like putting a story in the 'plumbing daily' just because it contains the word 'toilet'.
Not only is it not Technology news, It shouldn't even be news at this point. When does that woman's family get to be done with all this crap and go on with ther lives??
But I think somebody has gone over the edge when they put one of this never ending flood of Anna Nicole stories in the Technology News section on iwon.com
Ok, granted, that's not exactly what I'd call a "mainstream media" news outlet, but still somebody there decided that just because the headline of the AP story they scraped had the word "online" in it, that it belonged in Technology news. Sorry folks, that's assinine. It's like putting a story in the 'plumbing daily' just because it contains the word 'toilet'.
Not only is it not Technology news, It shouldn't even be news at this point. When does that woman's family get to be done with all this crap and go on with ther lives??
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