Tech
The Difference Between Misusing And Exploiting Personal Information
There’s constant talk in the “internet space” about what can and can’t be done with personal information collected from users. The most benevolent way this data is used is when the data is mined for certain demographics and the demographics, not the data itself, is used to sell advertising on the web presence of the [...]
Pros and Cons of Twitter for iPhone
A couple of weeks ago, after getting the new version of Twitter for iPhone (iTunes), I found myself unsatisfied. I set out to write exactly why and found that creating a pro and con list led to many more cons than pros. Instead of writing a post about it I ended up trying a few [...]
Making The Atom Feed For A Tag in Google Reader Public
Google recently changed it’s sharing functionality in Google Reader to share exclusively with Google+. As part of this change starred and tagged items changed too. Specifically the behavior of their associated ATOM feeds have. The feeds still exist and work in the same way but you no longer have the option to make them public. [...]
Scheduling WordPress Posts
I remember a time several years ago when a colleague of mine got in trouble at work for having posted to his blog during business hours. This didn’t stop him from blogging on company time but made him more creative about it. He’d save drafts then post at the end of the day or early [...]
I Don’t Work For Yahoo
The first post of this blog told the story of how I recovered my Yahoo account after it had been hijacked. The subject actually turned into a 3 part series. I wrote these posts because I knew I wasn’t the only one who had lost control of their Yahoo account and couldn’t get it back [...]