Category Archives: The Internets

Facebook & Privacy

By Nick | Published: 28.05.2010
Facebook is a private company. It’s top priority is monetizing your usage of Facebook.com. So, and this doesn’t take a genius to figure out, it is tracking all that you do, collecting as much data as possible, and selling it. If you don’t like Facebook’s privacy practices, go ahead and complain. But it shouldn’t result [...]
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Updating WordPress

By Nick | Published: 31.12.2009
It wouldn’t be so tedious, if they would make things consistent. Well, maybe not consistent, but in-line with what I want. First, when I have to update WordPress itself, I’m presented with a prompt to update on the control panel. There are two options, “Upgrade Automatically”, which I can’t use since I don’t like setting [...]
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WackoWiki Lives Up To It’s Name

By Nick | Published: 23.11.2009
I wanted a PHP/MySQL Wiki to use for my car site, and I crossed upon some crazy Russian made one called “WackoWiki”. I just installed WackoWiki try it out. I was quickly surprised to realize that after editing the main page once, every subsequent visit would log me out. It was very annoying. Then, after [...]
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Hosting Maintenance

By Nick | Published: 20.11.2009
Apparently my site host decided to schedule maintenance just over the last hour. Interesting. Now all the masses are scared off, and my profits are plummeting! I need a bail out!
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People still use AOL?

By Nick | Published: 19.11.2009
We dropped that shit back in the 20th century. Get with the program people, AOL sucks. It sucked when it came out, and it’s been going down hill ever since then. The only thing AOL has done good is throw around thousands of CDs whose sole function was to keep my desk free from condensation [...]
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