A Peculiar Blog

Not only are they snooping on the browsing habits of customers, it’s going a lot farther than that. First there’s an article on dailymail.co.uk where BT, One of the UK’s largest ISPs, admits to spying on 36,000 customers. The article tells how BT chose 36,000 of it’s users for a trial run in [...]

Like a lot of people, even though I hate political ads and don’t care for having to listen to excess amounts of this or that politician busily talking about how they’re better than this or that other one, I got this hilarious picture in my mind. Ok, *I* thought it was funny, your mileage [...]

For those who’ve never heard of it, the name of this plugin sounds like it prevents all scripts, javascript, java and so on from running. That’s actually half true. Look at the description on the NoScript download page:
It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your [...]

At least that’s the claim according to an article on The Standard. Thing is, given Google’s penchant for collecting and archiving every bit of data about anything and their recent acquisition of Doubleclick, it’s hard to balance all this talk (and even some action) about privacy legislation against the fact that Google is extremely [...]

Just in case there’s still some people running mail servers that rely on the ordb.org spam identification system I can assure you that, No, all the disappearing email many of your users are probably complaining about hasn’t just been booked on cheap flights to China. Instead, you’ll probably find tons of emails wherever your [...]

In spite of what you might think from the name, Jeffers Pet is quite a bit more than just a pet supply store. Yeah, you can get all of the usual run of cat & dog supplies from toys to flea & tick treatments but they cover a lot more territory than just that. [...]

I think that most people generally understand that there’s a certain amount of waste in government spending but every once in a while something will come along that really drives home just how incredibly wasteful it really is. This time it’s in the form of the “Pig Book” put out by Citizens Against Government [...]

I saw a couple of disturbing posts on Newteevee.com in which the author wrote about having talked with Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience at the Digital Living Room conference about some Orwellian plans that Comcast is working on.
Apparently the cable company is trying out different camera technologies built into their cable boxes [...]