Archive for February, 2006

A New and Different SEO/M Content?

Shoemoney’s posted in his blog that he’s going to be launching a new and different SEO/SEM contest.  I think if anyone can pull this off, its Shoe.  Looking forward to seeing how this pans out…

Fixing Tor + Privoxy on Debian

A few weeks ago I noticed that some scripts I was playing with weren’t actually using tor even though I was proxy’ing through privoxy. Turns out that when you apt-get install tor/privoxy (at least on stable, ok) it doesn’t actually enable tor via privoxy. The fix is a simple addition to:
/etc/privoxy/config:
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

We’re Out of Oil. Start Pedaling.

This guy’s web site was linked on Slashdot with the summary that world oil production has peaked, and it can only decrease from here on out. Now, I don’t have a PhD. In fact, apparently that seems to be to my advantage. I don’t need to have a PhD to know that his assumptions are [...]

GoDaddy Getting More Questionable

The first big rumbling I heard about GoDaddy was this. It was definitely unsettling, but seemingly an isolated incident. Now it seems even Shoemoney is questioning GoDaddy. This is sketchy territory, and as I collect more and more domains with GoDaddy I have to wonder if now isn’t the time to bail. [...]

Tivo, HDTV, PTVUpgrade

I got setup for HDTV just before the big game. Honestly it was coincidence, but it worked out nicely. I’ve had an LCD HDTV for a while, and a projector capable of HD for a long time. DirecTV made me a good offer, and I went for it. So far…
The HD-Tivo [...]