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Monthly Archives December 2009

Goodbye to ads as well

I’m on a roll now, making the internet more usable. Today’s complaint is about ads. They’ve been getting bigger and more obnoxious lately, and started really irking me. My favourite newspaper’s site for example was becoming almost intolerable, making it very difficult to read the news. Not only did they have flashing and animated adds [...]

| Posted 29 December 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Akismet is working great

Wohoo! Akismet plugin is working wonders, no comment spam is getting through anymore. In your face, spammers! Now I’m going to go just one step further and start blocking all access to my web server from certain IP addresses which I see repeated in my spam stats. If you have a blog, or a forum, [...]

| Posted 23 December 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

How retarded can an End User License Agreement be?

I’d say plenty retarded. Just recently I wanted to download a piece of free software – free as in it doesn’t cost anything, and I’m allowed to use it for my own needs. After an excruciating interrogation about my company and myself, including addresses and everything, I’m greeted with this: (against my own rules I’m [...]

| Posted 16 December 2009 | Antti | Old crow whining | Random stuff | Comments Off |

What me who why huh?

There’s so much… everything, and yet so little of it seems important. Why is it all there? I think I’d prefer if there was less… everything. Maybe then my brain wouldn’t hurt. With a bit of luck, what remained would be the important parts.

| Posted 16 December 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

A novel approach to preaching

I found this an interesting approach to preaching about backups: www.taobackup.com – read it and weep, for I am sure you will catch yourself off guard on at least half the points. I would brag of having my backups in top notch condition but, alas, they are not so I won’t.

| Posted 15 December 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |