Tag: internet
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Seek And Ye Shall Find…Something Irrelevant
And you thought I made this stuff up…  A couple of posts ago I was bemoaning spam comments being posted to this blog, and posited a scenario where people were looking for videos of dwarves blowing goats and found my site by mistake. Well, sure enough, it’s happened. I have some basic statistics software running against my site, which tells me (amongst other things) what sites have referred visitors to mine (I mentioned this last time) and also what search terms people used when they were directed to my site by Google (96% of the time) Yahoo (2%), or one of the… Read more
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Pygmy-minded spammers really get my goat
I read an article about Facebook yesterday, where the author was concerned about its use for ‘targeted advertising’. It seems that FaceBook users are blithely listing their favorite films, books, bands, and foods, and stating their age, location, and a bunch of other ‘personal’ information, unaware of the fact that this information is being used to serve up ‘relevant’ adverts. List your favorite film as “Pulp Fiction”? Don’t be surprised to see an advert for Tarantino’s latest (and no doubt inferior) movie pop up when it makes its rapid trajectory to DVD release.   Post an entry saying only Ritz Crackers can… Read more
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AT&T Are Shit
(Sorry, I can’t think of a witty title, because this just isn’t funny…) About a month ago, a representative from AT&T called round offering me their Uverse service free on a couple of month’s trial. This is a combined cable TV and internet service, and although I already used AT&T’s DSL service for my internet connection, I’d shied away from the cable TV service as a friend of ours round the corner had had bad experiences with AT&T. The rep told me that they had since upgraded their network to fibre-optic, and I’d have an optic cable running right into… Read more