Archive for the 'blogs' Category
The Congress finally manage to pass the recent FISA Amendments Act in spite of serious opposition from the EFF and a lot of other concerned citizens and organizations all across the country. Fortunately, even though it’s been passed, the fight to get the telecoms held accountable for participating in illegal, warrantless domestic spying is continuing.
July 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Privacy, blogs, news, surveillance | Comments Off
Welcome back!One of the things that I’ve seen on a lot of blogs is that it’s entirely too easy for things to get so loaded down with unneeded or unused stuff that ends up serving only to make the blog load slower. Slower loading blogs are a lot less likely to get returning visitors [...]
July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Opinion, Programming, Websites, Wordpress, blogs | 2 Comments
I had a disaster today. I was minding my own business getting organized for some things I was planning to write when all of a sudden with no warning at all my monitor went dark. The hard drive light kept blinking occasionally like it always does and the lights on the ADSL modem [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Business, Computers, Financial, Hardware, Misc, Opinion, Websites, blogs, news | Comments Off
Autoplay Music:
If you MUST have music on your site, then make the embeded player visible and let me click something to start it. You have no idea if I’m listening to something of my own, if I am, your site taking over my speakers and walking all over my Mozart concertos with your idea [...]
June 1st, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Website Review, Websites, blogs | 2 Comments
Stylish design is a web designing blog that does more than just cover and re-cover the same kind of things that most web-design gurus have been writing since forever. It brings the matter of style into the equation.
Style is an important consideration. Bare bones basic techniques will work, but when you add the [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Opinion, Programming, Website Review, Websites, blogs, software | Comments Off
Lots of things I suppose but primarily it’s the way you recognize something. However, that gets difficult when you’ve got two of something that have the same name.
In my case, I’ve got two blogs named “Dilithium Crystalworks”. The situation came about some time ago when I bought a domain, dilithiumcrystalworks.com, that I was [...]
April 8th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Misc, Websites, blogs | Comments Off
If you’re looking for interesting blogs and I think most of us are always on the lookout for interesting blogs that we haven’t heard of before, then the solution is to Go Blog Hunting.
Blog Hunting is a blog where interesting blog posts are reviewed / discussed. A great example is a recent entry “For [...]
March 4th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Misc, Websites, blogs | Comments Off
No doubt you’ve noticed that I’ve changed the title to include “(old version)”. The reason for this is that I’m going to be migrating from a subdomain to a full domain name. Over the next few months I’ll be phasing out this subdomain version in favor of the one that’s running on http://dilithiumcrystalworks.com/.
One [...]
January 28th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Misc, blogs | 1 Comment
That’s the new status for Dilithium Crystalworks.
At least, that’s what the report was the last time I checked at it’s pagerank as reported by the SearchStatus plugin for Firefox. This means that they’ve apparently gone one step farther than just reducing the pagerank to zero and removed any rank at all.
Could this be the [...]
January 14th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Opinion, Websites, blogs | Comments Off
Once again Google is on the rampage. You can tell by watching the pagerank of sites you visit. sites all over the net are suddenly showing up with a zero pagerank.. dropping from as high as four or five all the way to zero. It’s hitting some sites hard enough to make [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, Business, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Opinion, Websites, blogs, news | 3 Comments