Having used PCs since the early days of the Intel 8088-based personal computer, I'm always baffled by the amount of instability in today's computer systems. I build my own computer systems and one would expect that the notorious "blue screen of death" (BSOD) would be a remnant of the past, since … [Read more...]
Sedo and Name.com: Who’s telling porkies about parking?
February 27, 2012 by 4 Comments
A few days ago I let one of my domains - Greek.in - cross its expiration date. The domain is with Name.com and I simply "ignored" the reminders on a busy week. While in the process of renewing it, I noticed that the domain was displaying a standard Sedo ad page, with the minimal, greenish text … [Read more...]
Naughty John Naughton and Thank God for graphic designers
February 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I still remember the early days of the commercial Internet, having graduated from college a good five years earlier. These days, information technology was restricted to local programming and games development, systems analysis and expressive computer art. Computer monitors were small, expensive, … [Read more...]
I’m getting too old for this: The letter captcha rant
February 16, 2012 by 6 Comments
There are probably several billion reasons to use a captcha on a form; as many as the amount of spam one is in danger of receiving. The "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" works well when the characters are straightforward letters or numbers that must be … [Read more...]
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