Posts categorized under ‘Internet’

Chrome wants to be helpful by translating a page from Japanese to English. Okay. What I find interesting isn’t so much the fact that Chrome is asking if I want to have the site translated; it’s that Chrome isn’t asking if I want to use an English Google site instead.

This marks the 900th post on j2fi.net and, rather than do something predictable like look back at some of the more popular posts or anything like that, I thought it would be more interesting to share my experiences on upgrading a group of WordPress 2.9.x sites to a single WordPress 3.0 site.

My Tweets are going semi-private from this day forward, as I’ve had enough of seeing people spam my timeline with idiotic RT’s that don’t add value to the experience.

There seems to be a lot of noise about Google’s collection of potentially private data over unsecured wireless networks. Regardless of whether this was intentional or not, governments can do a lot of good with this information.

It seems that spammers are becoming more desperate as they begin hammering blogs with a seemingly insurmountable amount of spam. As a result, Akismet isn’t catching them all as spammers get smarter.

Facebook is still a relatively new part of my online interaction, and there are some things that are just a little disturbing.

Spam, spam, spam, spam. The classic Monty Python song runs through my head whenever I open my GMail Inbox. What I really don’t understand, though, is why so many spammers use such stupid ways to “promote” their product.

It seems that none of the advertisements displayed on Facebook interest me. Where are all the big brand names? Where are the targeted adverts built from my comments and friends lists? It’s strange that I’m seeing only the same set of companies …

Opera released their latest update yesterday and when they said it was fast, they weren’t kidding. Opera has been consistently faster than IE and FireFox for me, but this latest update blows all previous versions out of the water.

Does anyone else find Facebook a little more than annoying recently? I don’t know what’s more insulting: that Facebook thinks Yves has no friends, or that Facebook thinks I have time to find him more friends.

A picture of a kitty stretching in the kitchen results in a “How To Sex” advertisement in the sidebar … how odd.

One of the many things that men learn when they’re young is that there are three mothers we should be especially careful with: Mother Nature, Mother-in-Laws, and Mother $%&#ing Spammers. This third one is quite upset with me today …

Imagine, if you will, a future where people are more aware of their ecological impact on the planet and strive as a single collective to reduce our emissions-loving ways as much as possible without simultaneously destroying nations and economies. Believe it or not, it is possible.