A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!Last month I wrote that I’m Done With Dofollow Comments, explaining that I believed that this blog was being penalized because so many of the urls in those dofollow comments were pointing to what search engines in general and Google in particular refer to as “bad neighborhoods” and that I was going to disable [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I just saw this little gem on Slashdot this morning:
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of well-known computer security
company Kaspersky Labs, is calling for an end to the anonymity of the
Internet, and for the creation of mandatory ‘Internet passports’ for
anyone who wishes to browse the Web
The very first thought I had after reading this [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve talked about Freenet here occasionally and while I think it’s easy enough to understand I still get occasional questions about just exactly what it is. That, combined with the recent fork of Freenet Classic OpenNet from the original Freenet 0.5 project has prompted me to create this video that [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to a story on ITnews there’s some people arguing that it’s time to require a kind of “internet drivers license” before allowing people to go online for the first time.
Australia’s leading criminologist thinks online scams have escalated to such a point that first-time users of computers should have to earn [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads First it works, then it doesn’t. One day it’ll boot, the next it won’t. This laptop has so far been quite an adventure. Even when it does boot, there’s this nearly undefinable feel to it that tells me that it’s days are numbered and that every time it [...]