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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: Internet
Stats weirdness!
From the “odd things in my stats” files: somebody clearly mailed a link to this post to a bunch of people using Yahoo and MSN accounts, because for no apparent reason, a bunch of people who appear to come from … Continue reading
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
The thing that bugs me most about LinkedIn
So every so often, someone I used to work with or went to school with will find my name on LinkedIn and ask to add him/herself to my connections. And when that happens, I have a tendency to look up … Continue reading
Fun with blog stats, and saying goodbye to U3…
Well, apparently my disturbing popularity as a top hit for removing U3 software from Sandisk (and other) thumb drives is at an end, which amuses me highly. Now this blog is back to what it was meant to be, a … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, corporate bullshit, hardware, Internet, Musings, software
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A response to a search query… A comment on privacy on the Internet and personal relationships
So one of the nifty benefits of WordPress is that I can see at least some of the search terms people use to get to my blog. Often they’re amusing, most of them are predictable, and some of them are … Continue reading
The problem with telling your own story
Or: How I learned to love my lack of anonymity on the Internet. The Internet is forever. For those of you who think you can post something stupid – or have something stupid posted about you – and not have … Continue reading
The AOL generation tries to reproduce. I’m afraid. – 4 of 30
I think it can safely be said that the prospect of having children can and should scare the crap out of anyone. Not because it’s a bad thing, but because it’s a huge thing. But for women, even the trying … Continue reading
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Tagged humor, idiots, Internet, Life, reproduction, thirty posts in thirty days
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(From Slashdot:) Translation of Macromedia’s Response to Steve Jobs on DRM
I don’t normally repost from Slashdot, but this one is funny. In response to Steve Jobs’ Open Thoughts on DRM, global DRM giant Macrovision published this corporate crap as a response. Daring Fireball translates this into actual human-speak for us. … Continue reading
Medieval Tech Support
Stolen from Librarienne. Next time good ole’ Mom calls up because she “broke the Internet”, causing you to long for the good old days before computers, give this one a watch: See? It could be worse
The Stupidest… Hacker… Ever.
Link yanked from Peter Forret’s blog – may I present: The Stupidest Hacker Ever. Come on… laugh. Old Guard of the Internets, you know you want to… I don’t know if it’s apocryphal or not, but it did make me … Continue reading
