A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just saw a slashdot item that makes me wonder about the Japanese government… They’re apparently getting some laws passed that are laying the groundwork for what has the potential to become an Orwellian regulation of online communications.
Oh, it’s [...]

Since I am going to be talking about a web hosting service provider It occurred to me that it would be a decent idea to start by providing a definition.
Web Hosting is the disk space on a web server that holds all of the files needed (html, images, video, sounds, Etc) for a website or [...]

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By now you have seen this image in my sidebar with the universal negate on it. My decision to place this image on my blog rises out of growing disapproval of “G” and the way they’ve decided to handle things concerning pagerank lately which is [...]

Well, I think I’ve just taken the last step in my latest re-design adjustments. I’ve deactivated and removed the adsense plugin from Wordpress and the last bit of ‘G’ specific code (analytics) is now gone. I switched to using statcounter instead because frankly, it’s a lot more user friendly and easier to deal [...]

Then it’s because I’ve been moving this blog’s subdomain, the primary domain, and some other bits from one web host to another. In the process there was at least 12 hours or more during which things didn’t work.
Fortunately I’ve gotten it all straightened out with the aid of the support wiki on Dreamhost and [...]

No, it didn’t. (but it made a pretty good headline didn’t it?)
I just read something over on “Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog” called “Analysis of a -a- -e- -ost Spam Campaign - Why -a- -e- -ost Just Exploded” and because it mentioned the url for one of my posts, I just had to comment.
Basically the [...]

I’ve decided to give a try moving from the “Royal” theme that I’ve been using for so long to ont that I built with the WordPress Theme Generator.
The main reason was that the Royal theme seemed to be slower loading and scrolling was kinda sluggish. I’m hoping that this new theme will do the [...]

I’ve had a problem with my Digg profile page for a couple of weeks or so now and while I’ve reported the bug / problem to digg and spent quite a bit of time on search engines looking, I have yet to even find mention of this particular problem.. let alone a cure.
If I am [...]

I haven’t posted here in a few days, partly out of a touch of holiday lazy and partly out of a bit of busy going on. Last night, I moved “I Am Not A Hamster” from it’s old url at http://iamnotahamster.peculiarplace.com to it’s new domain name at http://iamnotahamster.net.
If you’ve linked to or bookmarked “I [...]

By now I can’t imagine very many people not having at least heard about the latest round of “Google spankings” where blogs all over the Internet are suddenly being dropped to a zero PR.
There’s a lot of speculation about why this is being done but it comes down to brass tacks, Google has changed their [...]