Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

ICRA labeled

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

In the growth of the Internet, various challenges have been encountered. One of those is a battle between censorship and free speech, particularly in the context of material potentially inappropriate to certain audiences. I just brought my site, at least the WordPress-driven part of it, into the modern era of ICRA labeling.

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Running on the Future

Friday, November 13th, 2009

I received my Windows 7 Ultimate Commemorative Edition today from Microsoft for being part of the beta program. As it happens, I tend to find myself running a lot of beta software.

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Profile Duplication

Friday, November 13th, 2009

If you searched for me online, you might not find a clear home for me. You would find my Facebook profile, my personal site, my MySpace profile, and more. The point is that there is a lot of duplication out there.

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Running with PageHeap Enabled

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

For the next few days, I am intending to run with PageHeap enabled. I’ve gotten a few crashes that come up as heap corruption, so hopefully enabling PageHeap will help find the root cause.

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Facebook Connect Breaks

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Today, when I went to Geni, I was presented with an error about a bad SSL connection. Upon investigating, I discovered this was a Facebook issue.

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Retooling

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

I talked a few days ago about some of the security tools I use. After using some of those tools more as well as investigating them, I am going to revise my assessment of them.

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Digitally Signed E-mail

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

I am currently exploring e-mail certificates again in the wake of Thawte ending the Web of Trust. E-mail certificates are useful for two reasons. They provide for digital signatures and encryption.

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Broken Link Reporting

Friday, October 30th, 2009

In the prior incarnation of my site, I had a 404 handler that reported broken links to me so that I can set up an appropriate redirection to the intended content. Until today, that functionality was missing in WordPress. However, I found a plugin that brings that functionality to WordPress.

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Now with CDN Goodness

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Portions of the site now come through the Coral CDN. That should ehlp the page load faster.

Quieter Updating

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I tweaked the settings on the plugin that notifies Facebook, MySpace, and other sites that I have posted a new article. They should now only post new status messages when a post is published or updated. The notifications that a post is started or saved should no longer occur.