Tag Archives: internet

Annoying Web 2.0 Stuff

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if no one ever upgraded to Web 2.0? I mean, really, what have we gained. Here’s a list of things that I personally find really stupid about the phenomenon…

The SixtyOne: An Awesome Free Music Site

I love the SixtyOne. It uses a point-based system to allow me to vote up my favorite music, which accrues me more points when more people vote it up. It’s basically like digg for music. Not all the songs are free, but you can listen to the full versions of the songs on demand without [...]

Another Speed Test

Did another speed test today. So I guess I effectively have approximately a 16Mbit/1Mbit Down/Up line. Horray me!

Comcast gives me 16MBit Cable for $70 per month!

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I can’t read the news because of advertising.

What is wrong with this picture? Oh! I know! Maybe its that I can’t read the article because of an ad!! Good work, CNN! Original Story. You might have to refresh a few times. This is because of oversize flash advertisements. Here is a short flash video of my experience.

Sad state of domain squatting

Well, I figured that someone out there must have created a repository of code examples, so the first thing I tried was CodeExamples.org. And, not amazingly, it’s beed squatted. Oh great – thanks for wasting that name. Let’s try .com. .net? Well, they’re all completely worthless. .info hasn’t beed squatted (yet). There should be some [...]

WordPress loses again

Another WordPress folly: When will people learn that it’s not good? Someday hopefully.

Precaching Images with Javascript

Today, Will told me about some awesome image caching. I used it. //Do some image caching cached_image = Array(new Image(), new Image(), new Image(), new Image()); cached_image[0].src=”image1.jpg”; cached_image[1].src=”image2.jpg”; It’s amazing.

Domain Name Nightmare

So, fittingly, April 1st of this year, my nameservers changed for ralree.info causing a spam site to show up where everything I was working on used to be. I feared the worst, thinking that my name had been sniped by domain squatters. But no! In fact, as I already knew was happening, my domain had [...]