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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: idiots
A word to the not-so-wise…
Sometime in, oh, I don’t know… April of this year, I made a snarky tongue-in-cheek post about the AOL generation trying to reproduce and some of the very special things (especially the very special acronyms) the folks on the “TTC” … Continue reading
Week 35: Pumpkins! Pumpkins! Pumpkins!
34 weeks, 3 days: Part II. In spite of the jerk who decided to post that I was a lard-ass in response to my last set of belly shots, I’m going to do something I haven’t done before – post … Continue reading
To the very special person who graciously informed me that I’m a lard-ass in the comments…
Dear Mr./Ms./Probably-Mr.-Because-Let’s-Face-It-It-Was-Pretty-Juvenile 90.203.244.209, a.k.a. 5acbf4d1.bb.sky.com, whose ISP is located somewhere in the neighborhood of Doncaster, England: Thank you for visiting and leaving your informative comments on my pregnant belly shot. I never would have guessed I was overweight without helpful … Continue reading
Bad Behavior
So I finally got sick of some of the stuff that gets through my blog comment spam filter, especially empty comments that I presume are probing for the ability to spam (although I will say that in general, Akismet does … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress
Tagged Bad Behavior plugin, blogging, idiots, Internet, software, spam, Wordpress, Wordpress plugins
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Ack… An anonymity nightmare
I haven’t posted much on the privacy and anonymity front since getting pregnant, but I wanted to pass on a link in any event. Alex Janssen, a guy who runs a Tor server in Germany and who had promised never … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged anonymity, idiots, Internet, privacy, scary stuff, security, Tor
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Will someone please explain this to me?
Christian commented the other night that it was a little bizarre that Halloween movies are already coming out… But can someone please explain to me why, on August 31st, Walgreens is advertising Halloween candy at 2/$5 and has their costume … Continue reading
The case against invading Iraq – by Dick Cheney (?!?!!?)
I saw this a couple of days ago via an e-mail, and it was parodied last night on the Daily Show. If it weren’t so disgusting, it’d be hilarious. Ok, so it’s morbidly hilarious too. May I present to you… … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Cheney, humor, idiots, Iraq, Middle East, responsible journalism, scary stuff
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Misdirection and Crack-Smoking Fiends
All right, I’ve had it. *turns on megaphone* People of the American Empire: Bush’s pardon commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence has nothing to do with Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton isn’t even the issue here. Bill Clinton has nothing to do … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Bill Clinton, Bush, idiots, Scooter Libby
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Oh, FANTASTIC…
Yes, our friendly neighborhood fascist dictator president has decided to pardon Scooter Libby. (Call it a commutation if you like, Mr. Shrub, sir, but a pardon it is.) Heckuva job, Bushie. Let’s not even pretend not to be hypocritical and … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Bush, idiots, Politics, Scooter Libby
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Pseudonymous comment posting…
(N.B. If you’re one of my regular posters, I promise this is not about you. Part of this content is directed at a specific poster who will have no doubt that it refers to him or her.) So today I … Continue reading
