Last December I got a PM from a fellow forum member that this website, listed in my sig, was marked as an Attack Site by Norton. Oh, joy. I get little enough readership as it is. He gave me a list of malware my site was supposed to have, complete URL’s. Needless to say they … Continue reading
Category Archives: great companies doing silly things
Radio Shack Goes Bankrupt
Radio Shack is going bankrupt, and the Internet has erupted in waves of nostalgia and false nostalgia. Why not? It’s my turn. As the orphan son of an Engineer, I had an early love of electronics. I made circuits the hard way at first, with a soldering iron, loose wires and a brown breadboard. My … Continue reading
Fixing Firefox 29 Tabs On Top without an add-on
So Mozilla, the organization that prides itself on openness and freedom of thought and being different, pulls a bonehead group-think move. No, not firing its CEO for daring to have his own political opinions. Finally implementing its threat to look just like every other browser out there, and move tabs from the bottom to the … Continue reading
The Problem with Comments
Recently Popular Science turned off user comments entirely on new articles. In true PopSci style, they justified the move with a study, unlinked, but linked to the study’s author’s OpEd on the study, justifying their move by saying that the existence of polarizing comments unduly influence readers, and outweigh the ability of civil discourse to … Continue reading
Daily surfing failures
I went to Philips‘ site to compare their various headlamps for autos. I picked two for comparison. The results were: 12V versus 12.8V, and both were the same wattage. Oh, yeah. How about… Lumens? Color temp? Expected life? Lots of pretty Flash, though. Now I’m worried about that 0.8V! (Not really. There’s almost nothing 12.0V … Continue reading
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