Google Cloaking

The aff sites are still framing my site, and the number of hits and amount of bandwidth is certainly not decreasing with time (details at previous posts, if you want to catch up on the story). I’m still not entirely sure what they’re doing, but the script they use (if you fetch the pages with [...]

Northern Voice Weekend

The weekend is going to be full of Northern Voice, I can just tell. The must-dos for me are the dinner on the Thursday evening (sorry, sold out), the unconference day on the Friday (I’ll be going to the session on identity and privacy of course, and whatever else takes my fancy once I’m there), [...]

Privacy in the Internet Age

Darren Barefoot has some interesting thoughts about privacy in the internet age and the way in which today’s north american teenagers are growing up posting everything about their lives on the internet. Up till now, most of the discussion I’ve read on the subject has revolved around the effects on future careers of posting potentially [...]

Northern Voice Almost Sold Out

As the title says, the NorthernVoice conference, to be held February 23 and 24 at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC, is almost sold out. As of Friday, there were only 50 spots left, and I’m sure at least some of those are now gone. So if you want to be there, now’s the time [...]

Compostable Plastic

The other day Tim brought home some food in a container that claimed to be made of corn and therefore compostable. I was intrigued by this, since I remember going to street parties and Christmas markets in Germany where the disposable plates were grain-based and even edible (not that people usually did eat them) but [...]

Hacked!

On top of being framed (and yes, they’re still there), my site was recently hacked. Somehow someone managed to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And managed thereby to elevate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the [...]