Here’s a topic I’ve been long overdue on covering as I sometimes do get asked about it and some may find interesting; the origins my online alias “Kurisu Yamato.” At first glance most people just chalk it up as another weird Japanese styled name, probably from some “weeb” kid who’s really into some particular anime […]
In the latest case of “people who can’t even begin to read legalese properly,” quite a bit of a stink was made over a phrase in the most recent YouTube Terms of Service update, which is effective on December 10th 2019. The text in question reads as follows: YouTube may terminate your access, or your […]
Spam email can be quite hilarious at times. Especially hilarious are spam emails which threaten you with some kind of horrible outcome if you don’t comply with the demands listed. Yep, extortion email! These, sadly, actually work in some cases, hence why they keep going. You can find a previous example of this in an […]
Last night was a pretty big mess for Firefox users (like myself) as the add-on functionality of the browser was, effectively, completely broken, due to an issue involving a security certificate expiring, rendering every add-on for the browser invalid. To put it really simply, a while back Mozilla began validating add-ons themselves, giving them a […]
I’m a few days late on covering this, but the slightly crazy situation my friend Prince Watercress had with the website GameAnyone is, well, I wouldn’t call it over, but it’s come to a resolution. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 at the following links – I won’t explain the entire situation here […]
Today, April 2nd, 2019, marks the death of Google+, Google’s much maligned social network service. For many, this is something that has been a long time coming, but I actually have a different outlook on this event. The reason? I actually liked what Google+ was! At least, in general idea, and a few things it […]
It’s not every day that one of the top visited websites in the world seems to go down for most everyone, but when it does, it’s kind of incredible. In this case, as I type these words it’s 8:30 in the evening central time and YouTube has decided to go down. Well, not completely, you […]
I’ve been on the internet for a long time. Well, not that long, but long enough to remember when people had web pages and not whole sites. Not often, anyway, did an individual have their own complex site. I remember when message boards were something special, IM chats were actually fun, and most importantly (for […]
When you get to the basics of it, a blog is basically a public journal – depending on the subject matter and the author, it can be literally as mundane as a persons day to day life, to something as deep and serious as ones physical and mental health, to anything (and I mean anything) […]
I thought it fitting, given recent events, to share this episode of the Computer Chronicles discussing the Internet in 1993. I don’t have to explain the internet to you – you know what it is, but understanding how it became what it is and why it was such a major thing, that’s something else entirely. […]
So, as we expected, on December 14th the FCC voted 3 to 2 to repeal regulations put on internet service providers back in 2015 which, in very simple terms, would require internet service providers to treat all data as equal – that is, forbid them from providing preferential treatment to the data of one service […]
In the interest of putting something out today (I’ve been a little under the weather the past few days), I’ve decided to break out this relic from YouTube circa 2006 – a video for a fictional game called CUBE! It’s actually a rather nice animation for what it tries to parody; late 80’s / early […]
Yeah, you read that right – Adobe is finally killing off the multimedia platform Flash in 2020 – that’s just 2-3 years away, depending on exactly when in the year they pull the plug. Now, Flash was one hell of an important plugin in the history of the internet – it gave a way for […]
In an amazing example of what amounts to a successful hostage situation (that is, successful for the hostage taker) it would seem over the past few weeks since Photobucket Screwed Over The Blogging Community that people have actually been paying $399 for the account plan that allows hotlinking. …Are you fucking serious? I can only […]
In a little bit of news that has the geekier side of the internet smiling, the .gif file format turns 30 today, June 15th, 2017. Yep, the same file format that beings you all those horribly annoying 1 second long looping animations on every buzzfeed top 10 list, the file format that no one wants […]