A Peculiar Blog

Anybody that’s ever had to spend time highlighting a url in the text of a web page so that they could copy it and paste it into the location bar is going to love this little gem.
Linkification is a Firefox add on that takes any url on a page and turns it into a link. [...]

One of the several plugins I use with firefox is Adblock. It’s a handy filter that makes it possible to remove things from websites as they load.
Say you load a website and it’s got an ad banner that you’re sick of looking at. With Adblock installed all you have to do is [...]

I recently received an email asking about something I said on my unofficial freenet 0.5 download page. After answering, I decided that it’d be worthwhile to share that answer for anyone else who might have any passing interest in my opinions. (with the addition of fixing a few typos and a broken sentence [...]

Remember when a TShirt with a message on it actually had that message printed large enough to read? Speaking from behind a fairly thick pair of bifocals I have to say that I don’t care for a lot of the printed TShirts around today. Either the text is so small that you really [...]

I know this sounds really familiar. A news story about the U.N. Security council deciding to impose sanctions on Iran because of it’s nuclear program.
The problem is, we’ve seen this thing before. Not only have there been a number of sanctions imposed against Iran without any apparent effect on their intent to build [...]

I read something disturbing today. It starts out with an article about The Pledge of Allegiance inspired by a tale of kids in school refusing to recite the Pledge because they believe “the Pledge forces them to show support for the government they do not agree with”.
The explanation of the Pledge of Allegiance that [...]

When wordpress went from version 2.2 to 2.3, one of the changes I noticed was the incoming links are no longer shown from Technorati. Instead you see the incoming links from a google blogsearch. I started out doing this because I wasn't all that thrilled about the change and wanted to change back. [...]

I’ve just seen a message on the Freenet board on Frost that is distributing a pre-release of a build that will eventually be Freenet 0.5 build 5109.
When 5109 is released I intend to update my freenet page to include the new version as well as the “painkiller” version with it’s bandwidth throttling features. I [...]

Somethings going on that needs to be stopped. A new “Cyber-Security Policy” being developed by National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. This policy will give the government sweeping authority to police the Internet and make it possible for them to get access to any email, web search or file transfer.
This is going to make [...]

Once again “Global Warming” raises it’s ugly, fictional head. This time however, it’s in an article on newsmax that does a good job of poking all kinds of holes in the whole global warming mess.
What it’s saying, in a nutshell, is that global warming is totally bogus. I think that the real reason [...]