Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Like so many people these days I spend at least some time on Facebook every day keeping up with whats going on with family and friends as well as posting my own two or three cents worth of updates and such. However there seems to be a virus spreading through Facebook. This virus is having […]
June 20th, 2012 | Posted in Internet, Opinion, Writing | Comments Off on I Hate How People Write On Facebook
The anonymous publishing, messaging and file sharing network known as Freenet 0.5 is, in my opinion, finally dead. I first started using Freenet around 2004 a little while before version 0.5 was released. It was a great idea, one that I consider to be very important in today’s world where “Big Brother” is increasingly snooping […]
June 6th, 2012 | Posted in Anonymity, Blogging, Censorship, Encryption, Freenet, Internet, Open source, Opinion, Software | Comments Off on Freenet 0.5 Is Dead
There is something about the way web browsers interpret space characters that has always bothered me. Every web browser I have ever seen collapses any number of spaces into a single space character. This continues to irritate the living snot out of me every time I see it and especially when it happens to text […]
May 25th, 2012 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Opinion, Writing | Comments Off on Improper Spacing: A Pet Peeve
I know that in recent weeks I haven’t had much to say here about the SOPA and PIPA bills in Congress and I really should have. Suffice it to say that there’s been a lot of complications that have kept me busy with things of a more personal nature. However that doesn’t change the fact […]
January 25th, 2012 | Posted in Censorship, Current Events, Entertainment, Internet, Net Neutrality, News, Opinion, Politics, Privacy | Comments Off on Your Freedom Online
I’ve been running a Freenet node for a long time. When I first started it up Freenet was at 0.4. A couple of months later it was at version 0.5 and some time after that I was able to run my node 24/7 most of the time. With the exception of occasional downtime due to […]
December 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Anonymity, Blogging, Censorship, Encryption, Freenet, Internet, Open source, Opinion | Comments Off on Am I Fighting A Losing Battle?