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The Invasion Is Over

July 23, 2006 – 9:13 am

Seems ipowerweb loses my site for half a day yesterday. Anyone trying to access the site through normal means comes up against a brick wall. Sorry about that. My hosting company is probably melting in the heat.
If you’re trying to get at counterinvasion.com, you probably ran into the same thing. But in this case it [...]

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iTunes iSbogus

July 9, 2006 – 12:13 am

Interesting article over at downhillbattle.org (whose t-shirt I love and wear regularly) about iTunes and the accounting behind their “artist-friendly” business model. Before I got the Amoeba job I used to use iTunes to get some of my music. I don’t think I’d go back. DRM issues aside, my main gripe is the sound quality [...]

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A Series of Tubes

July 6, 2006 – 12:57 pm

This has been chasing back and forth across the Internets. Alaska senator Ted Stevens is an outspoken opponent of Net neutrality, supporting a problematic idea wherein Internet pipeline providers (such as Comcast and AT&T) can charge big internet companies who use a lot of bandwidth for that privilege, a policy which makes as much sense [...]

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No More Buzznet

April 10, 2006 – 12:18 pm

I’m through with Buzz. I joined a couple years ago, met some cool people, hung out with some of them, posted a ton of pics, had some fun. But I’m sick of the down time, I’m tired of the way my blog hangs while it searches for the Buzznet servers. I’m tired of wondering what [...]

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Back To Hollywoodland

April 1, 2006 – 12:07 am

So the return trip drags. Way too much time is spent waiting in terminals and on tarmacs. The Doctor Pepper beverage service on the return trip is no where near as tasty as it was on the way out. And after a week of high-altitude, clear-sky serenity it’s almost a relief to be picked up [...]

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Hotlinkers

March 17, 2006 – 1:56 am

Man, what a pain. Now I know this site ain’t exactly boingboing, but I’ve got my fair share of readers. Even so, my bandwidth allotment at ipowerweb, who hosts HOLLYWOODLAND, has never set foot past the 15% mark. Imagine my surprise when I check my stats tonight to see that bandwidth has suddenly jumped to [...]

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Cute Overload

December 15, 2005 – 7:20 pm

Oh, man. Cute overload, indeed.

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Nutkinphobia

December 3, 2005 – 11:44 am

I dig through the Internet, scour Google, comb through lists of phobias, but I can’t find anything on the fear of squirrels. But if the term hasn’t been invented, it will be soon.

By will | Also posted in Hollywoodland, oddities | Comments (0)

Phishin’ Hole

November 30, 2005 – 1:48 pm

Just for fun, take the Phishing Test over at MailFrontier. Phishing scams are getting pretty sophisticated and this test demonstrates just how easy it is to whittle cash from the general populace.
As Lifehacker reports:
According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the [...]

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Thanksgiving

November 18, 2005 – 11:31 am

Lifehacker has an amusing and helpful article about the Annual Family Computer Fixing event - that tradition wherein we go home, eat turkey, sip wine and re-combobulate the parents’ hard drive. Among the suggestions: Switch the default browser to Firefox (which I actually just talked my Mom through,) do a spyware/adware sweep, defrag the hard [...]

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