A Peculiar Blog

No doubt most people on the Internet today are aware to some degree that web sites can use an assortment of tricks to find out information about you and your surfing habits. By using things like cookies, javascript, Active-X and more, it’s possible to find out quite a bit about any particular visitor to [...]

It shouldn’t, but there’s an increasing number of cases where people have been fired because of blogging. There’s a post on Wired Blogs that talks about a survey that claims “Nearly Ten Percent of Companies Have Fired Bloggers“.
Why does this happen? Sometimes an employee will be fired because they’re blogging while AT work [...]

I saw something on the Rachael Ray show today that I think has some
serious potential for problems that I’m sure that the folks advocating
it have considered. It was something called "Snoopstick". It’s sold as a
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I have been using computers since I got my first Tandy Color Computer back in 1985. I entered the world of dial up BBS’s in 1989 and I’ve been around the Internet since ‘97. my wife and I have had web sites up in various forms for most of that time. Along the [...]

I’ve just set up A new, Un-official
Freenet 0.5 alternative download page, including some instructions to help get started. It can be found here: http://peculiarplace.com/freenet/ 

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It occurred to me that in my quickie freenet tutorial I mentioned, but didn’t really do a very good job of explaining the concept of "Healing" files that you download. I found the following explanation in a frost posting by "sparhawk" that explains it much better.
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I’ve mentioned several times lately about mirroring MMS and Lastdays Watch in freenet and it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to write up a quick tutorial for anyone interested in getting started using freenet.
*Note* I’m talking about installing [...]