A Peculiar Blog

Recently Viacom got themselves a court order requiring Google to hand over a complete list of (get this) Every video watched by YouTube users. The logs in question include the login names an IP addresses of those users.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads When wordpress went from version 2.2 to 2.3, one of the changes I noticed was the incoming links are no longer shown from Technorati. Instead you see the incoming links from a google blogsearch. I started out doing this because I wasn't all that thrilled about the change and [...]

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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 [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 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 [...]