But not the way I'd like to be, I suppose.

If you search for certain LGBT words on Google this month, the blue line at the top of the page displays a rainbow stripe instead.

Ignore any message you get suggesting you check out "fbstarter.com". It takes you to what looks exactly like the Facebook login page, but it's not. If you go to that page, whatever you do, don't type your Facebook login and password into it! If you've already been stung by this, change your Facebook password right away, so whoever set this up can' ( Read more... )

...especially if you're any sort of system administrator or tech support person:

http://thewebsiteisdown.com

As to work-safeness, consider it rated PG-13 for sidelong sexual references, use of the "F" word, and whatever effect your literal LOL will have on your cow-orkers.

Thanks to blamedstarlie for ( Read more... )

Something I have been wanting to see for years is going to happen. People and organizations will be able to create their own top-level domains, alongside .com, .org, etc. I won't be looking to snap up .horch any time soon, because initially, it's going to be a very expensive processSome people are saying that it's going to be hard for ( Read more... )

If you're like me, and all you want to do is read the damn comic, you can do it here:

http://www.dilbert.com/fast

Call Bob the Dinosaur to give the designers of this mess and their PHBs a collective wedgie.

I've had my horch.org vanity domain for almost ten years now. It's up for renewal next month, and I decided to switch to another registrar. I'd been using Network Solutions, but over the years they've gotten both more expensive and more evil in their business practices--they're fast becoming the Ticketmaster of domain registrars. So, I decided ( Read more... )

The most surprising (to me) result of yesterday's poll was how many people have contributed to Wikipedia, or some such. Question: What did you contribute?

I fixed some mistakes in the entry for ClearCase. In the "some such" category, I've also submitted some definitions to Urban Dictionary.

...are Time's Person of the Year, and by "you", they mean "us". So how much of what Time said about "you" is true?

Poll I am Time's Person of the Year because...

[1] Yahoo groups, listservs, BBSs, etc. count. Merely posting to them doesn't.
[2] From the ground up, not just, say, customizing your LJ.
[3] Including equivalent servers in the pre-Web days.

There are a lot of sites out there whose names are common typoes of well-known sites, often pr0n, but sometimes offering a related business. It's pretty annoying when you try to go to some common place and get taken to some fly-by-night operation, of whatever stripe ( Read more... )