I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change.
Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text in [...]

Referrer spam is all those entries you see in your web server’s referrer log that indicate that people are coming to your site from web pages that don’t really link to you. It’s left there in the hope that your referrer logs will be visible to Google and friends, and that you (and your site’s [...]

A TLD, or top level domain, is the last part of a domain name. For example, .com, .net, .edu, .uk, etc. So I have a question: who’s the dope who thought of the “.ws” TLD? It stands for “web site”. I can understand that some people might think it was a good idea: “I want [...]

Services like BugMeNot.com are helping people get around the registration required of various news sites. Many sites like the New York Times require readers to complete a free registration before accessing much of their content in order to enable them to gather statistics necessary for selling advertising. For some reason, a lot of people feel [...]

The following, excepted from Yahoo!’s FAQ about DomainKeys, their proposal for authenticated email, points to a possible implementation of SSL (a.k.a. HTTPS or secure HTTP) which wouldn’t require a CA, which would make setting up a secure server free, rather than requiring anywhere form $50 to hundreds of dollars per year:
Does DomainKeys require signing of [...]

I noticed some traffic coming in from a Korean site to one of my blog entries today. I don’t read Korean, so I popped the text into Sherlock for translation, and this is what I got:
This will be contradictory conduct of inside oneself? Yesterday
“against” ‘ a reflection or an expansion be ‘ as it answered [...]

A few days ago, Amy Gahran posted on her Contentious Weblog (no, I don’t mean it’s an unfriendly weblog, that’s the blog’s title) a response to Google’s sending a cease-and-desist to someone who’d been providing a service to convert Google News searches to RSS. As much as I’d love to see RSS feeds of Google [...]

The current state of pornography on the internet

There is no reliable way for a website to be sure that they are not delivering content to someone to whom it is illegal to send it. Simply saying “you must be over 18 to access this site” is in no way a form of control like requiring [...]