Aside from having some idea what you’re going to do with a website, perhaps the single most important thing is deciding where you’re going to host the site. Any serious business or blog is going to need to be on a domain that isn’t just a sub domain of free hosting service.
Catching up on Slashdot again I ran across something that’s a tad bothersome. Seems that Micro$loth is calling IE8’s habit of phoning home ‘Innocuous’.
Word is out on Slashdot that the US Department of Justice has hired Sanford Litvack, formerly of Disney to get out his legal swimwear and get ready for a possible anti-trust suit against Google.
How long does spam take to decay into nothing?
I’ve been doing website reviews in one form or another every now and then and this time I’ve decided to change it up a bit and try something new (well, new for me anyway.). I used CamStudio, a freeware utility I wrote about recently
Yesterday I got an email that was a very believable threat. It claimed that the person sending it was receiving virus laden emails from my address. They claimed to have gotten logs from their ISP and were even so kind as to include a copy of said logs.
Is it any surprise that Google has confirmed that they are indeed using DoubleClick tracking cookies to keep track of people’s web surfing habits and putting that information to use in refining their advertising?
Windows Vista has been ‘pwned’ big time. A couple of researchers attacked Vista by using the way that Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects which results in effectively bypassing the memory protection safeguards in Vista.
So, You’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and get an actual domain for that website or blog that you’ve been running on a subdomain since forever. The biggest problem you’ve got now is that all of a sudden those inbound links you’ve been working your arse off to get are going to stop working.
I got a comment on my recent post “Is Hushmail Safe?” where someone expressed the idea that a privacy service located in Canada wouldn’t be able to provide you with any real protection because of it’s proximity to the US and MLAT treaties between the two.
