From 1981, a KRON-TV (San Francisco) report about newspapers investing money in getting the news “online”. My favorite is the classic rotary phone handset to modem, and the caption under the interview of a user of the service which reads, “owns home computer.” TechCrunch: You Need To See This Video. Of course, the representative from [...]
Archives for January 2009
What is your backup strategy?
I’m looking for input on what your home and/or small business backup strategy is. What? You don’t have one? Well, mine has been spotty at best. I originally bought my Dell XPS desktop as a “Scratch & Dent” machine. It has a RAID controller, but only came with a 250 GB hard drive, and the [...]
Importing an ftp blogger blog into WordPress 2.7
If you have a blogspot blog or custom domain, there is a Blogger import in wordpress: wp-admin Left Sidebar Tools, Import Select Blogger Of course, if you have your own hosting and use Blogger via FTP to publish your blog, this is not an option I tried using the RSS feed import in blogger (as [...]
The future of storage?
The SD Card Association has unveiled a 2 Terabyte capacity microSD card spec (SDXC) [InformationWeek article]. The specification uses the exFAT file system (FAT64). Recently, SanDisk trumpeted drastic improvement in flash write speed. Granted, the drastic speed boost will come to market long before the SDXC spec is maxed out. Imagine the applications for carrying [...]
Direct Message Phishing to Spam
I received a Twitter DM from one of the accounts that was a victim of Twitter phishing this weekend. Hey! I just got a FREE iphone from this website.. here http://helloiphones.com The culprit is a follower known to me, and not a random spam follower this time. Looks like some other people are experiencing the [...]
Testing e-mailing in posts through WordPress
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On the Admin page, under Settings->Writing: Post via e-mailTo post to WordPress by e-mail you must set up a secret e-mail account with POP3 access. Any mail received at this address will be posted, so it’s a good idea to keep this address very secret. Here are three [...]
Twitter Phishing Attack Screenshots
A Mashable post about the Twitter phishing attack going on makes the point that this is a “coming-of-age” for Twitter, in that “nobody phishes where there are no phish to catch.” Maybe so, but I’m annoyed nonetheless. Twitter sent out a tweet (if you’re following @Twitter) linking to a blog post about the phishing event. [...]
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