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  • May 29, 2006

    New Job

    Tomorrow I start my new job as a XHTML/PHP Developer for a local company. While I don’t want to give any details about what/where/who it is (in fear of getting Dooced), I will say I am very excited/apprehensive. The summer before my senior year of college I am starting a job that has the potential to set me off on the rest of my life (life after school, that is). Well, that and the fact that for some reason I get very nervous driving to unknown places for the first time, and they are moving to a place that in my head is a terrible place to drive (not NYC). That will subside in time. I am more concerned with “Will I be good enough?” But I suppose they would have not hired me if I weren’t.

    I will less than likely write about work for the aforementioned concerns, but I will say what I can when I can. As for now, wish me luck on my first day as a psudo-real person! Later.

  • April 15, 2006

    Scams-A-Plenty!

    (No Image b/c their logos are copyright protected and they would most likely actually sue me…)

    An online company, Blue Hippo, trying to get the best of the not-so-tech-savvy. Of course, they didn’t take into account DiggNation.
    To break it down a little for you, You put $99 down on the desktop. Then pay $39.99/week for 52 weeks. That is $2079.58 + the $99 down = $2178.58 for a computer. Must be good, huh? Here are some Dell computers with comparable/better features, none of them exceeding $600. Why? Because the computers they are offering are bottom of the barrel computers.

    The laptop they are offering does not even have the minimum required amount of RAM to run the OS it comes with. They mask this little scam by telling the customers it does not matter what kind of credit you have….because clearly, no matter how bad yours is, their’s is probably worse.

    So, stay away from Blue Hippo and make sure to tell your friends. Later!

  • February 27, 2006

    Google Desktop 3

    Google Desktop

    I don’t have it, but I plan on getting it. I am writing because I just got an email from my school stating that Google Desktop is ‘bad’.

    Google unveiled Google Desktop 3, a free, downloadable program that includes an option to let users search across multiple computers for files. To do that, the application automatically stores copies of files, for up to a month, on Google servers. This feature could make personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who’ve obtained a user’s Google password. [We] highly recommends our user community to NOT download and make use of the Google Desktop 3 program

    The way this is worded, it seems Google Desktop 3 allows you to search any PC on the servers for any information you would like. This is not the case. I did a little research and the Search Across Computers function allows you to, using your Google account, connect PCs to their servers where it will add Word, Excel, Power Point, PDFs and Internet Temp files (excluding HTTPS). You also have the option to select which files you would like to search and which to exclude. There is not music or video files sharing, as the email implies, the risk of your password being stolen is always an issue, and if the government wants to subpoena you, they will find a way to do it. Besides, if you aren’t doing anything illegal, what do you have to worry about?

    So, in my opinion, Google Desktop 3 will be a nice app to use. It will make backing up for me much easier. Get it Here. Later!

  • February 13, 2006

    One Image to rule them all

    Or 2. Checking out my stats today I saw a lot of links I didn’t recognize, primarily My Space profiles. One site I found was hot linking an image for the cover of the fight club book. So I changed it to a nice Public Service Announcment. I did the same with the Yankees-Boston image from this post, which was also being hot linked.

    Finding it strange that only those two images were used, I did a google image search on those two, and it turns out they are the number ones. Below are the images I replaced on the multitude of sites used in the hot links. Later!

    Hot Linking = Bad
    BoSucks

  • November 30, 2005

    Abusive New York Camera Store Threatens Blogger

    I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again.” “I’m an attorney, I will sue you.” “I’m going to call your local police and have two officers come over and arrest you.” Just a few of the fun things I got to hear today from someone who said his name was Steve Phillips over at PriceRitePhoto.

    read more | digg story

    This was a story I had to post. What the man went through was rediculous, unethical and plain wrong. People who run their businesses like this should be locked up, never mind taking away their business license. I wonder how many unknown threats like this came from the same company. Later

  • August 17, 2005

    Hard drive in a freezer gone bad.

    I usually don’t blog Digg Stories- But this is a good one.

    Yup, the tried and true old clicking hard drive in the freezer trick that has served me well over the years, upon hearing a coworkers problem with a hard drive I offered up the old last resort trick as advice and sometime after that weekend this was the e-mail I received.

    read more | digg story

  • July 5, 2005

    I am not this bad….

    So I read an article on Engadget stating that a clinic in China just opened for the internet addicted. Symptoms include shakes, unwillingness to work with others and insomnia. Despite what people tell you, I am not that bad…..Later!