This is a short PSA to warn potential buyers: don't buy The Internet is a Playground from David Thorne aka @27bslash6. It's a scam.
Most probably fake since I own the entire collection of C&H and I've never seen this one. But still. Those damn kids on the intarwebs. They don't respect nothing!
Make yourself a favor: use Firefox, install the AdBlock extension, and add http://forms.aweber.com/* in the blockable items.
According to this non-authoritative poll, nearly 50% of Firefox3 users think that the "Awesome Bar" is a huge piece of crap. I must concur: this is a *huge* piece of crap. The sad thing is, there seem to be no way of reverting to a normal behavior. A few Firefox Addons or about:config hacks make things look like what it…
Funny: this post was aiming to be a collection of reasons why WordPress sucks. After a couple of comments pointing out more or less annoying bugs or features, the thread naturally evolved towards a lists of all the reasons why WordPress does not suck, to the consensus that it is the best blogging tool around, certainly not perfect, but still the best. Who needed proofs anyway? :)
This tatoo doesn't even validate, duh! (via the always entertaining pics.reddit)
This is a truly scary story : David Airey got his domain stolen because of a GMail vulnerability. Short story: it was (seems it's fixed) possible to create filters on Gmail just by visiting a link or, say, loading a hidden frame on a malicious website. Like, create a filter to forward to evilguy@evilhost.com any email containing the word "password"…
What's wrong with GMail these days? I seem to receive mails hours after they've been sent, and I'm pretty sure I've missed quite a few.
Christmas is approaching and I'm thinking a bit about what Santa could bring to me. One gadget I still miss because I've never found the perfect one is an MP3 player. Every time I read reviews, I just cannot understand why every single product seems to miss an essential feature or comes with a couple of bloated concept I don't…
In the best case scenario, captchas annoy me. In most cases, I can't even read them properly and they make me fill twice some registration form. In some too frequent cases, when I fail a couple of times I get fed up and don't even register with the site they're supposed to protect (And in every single case, I am…