Many websites use what’s called ‘Captcha’ to make sure those filling out comment forms or user registrations are actual humans. It is the annoying little ‘type the obscure word you see in the scrambled picture above’ bit.
Well, we were getting quite a large number of spam bot user account attempts (The user account has to [...]
When I go somewhere and know there will be at least a few minutes of reading time, I like to take a few books. I really should just limit myself to a single title and ‘rough it’ with just that, but I usually like to pepper my reading time with different subjects or tastes. [...]
This morning, my friend Gary and I were talking about the competition Apple’s iPhone faces with the new Google phone and others. He asked if I had heard about Microsoft’s myPhone—or perhaps spelled, miPhone.
I hadn’t heard of the miPhone, but with a little imagination here is an early concept photo:
Now if they could only get [...]
I get the Monday edition of Investor’s Business Daily which I receive each Saturday—it is always fun to see two days ahead in the future. Reading it this morning*, I found a short article about a new craze in Japan called Eternal Poppety-Pop.
Apparently, many people find popping the bubbles in bubble wrap to be shear [...]
Previously, I mentioned some minor troubles with the iPhone I bought last December. Last week I finally sent in the last loaner and received my second ‘real’ replacement iPhone. I had two loaners and two ‘new’ phones in the last month or so. Including my original phone from December, that means the current phone I [...]
As I mentioned here, I ordered an audio recorder last week. I decided on the cheapest good quality machine: the Zoom H2 for only $188. With it, I ordered a 4 gig SD card (about $25). Both came in today.
I’ve decided I need a portable field recorder.
I’ve had my eye on Sony’s 24-bit Linear PCM-D1 Audio Recorder ever since a friend in Tokyo picked one up. After hearing a few samples he recorded, I was amazed at the quality. He sent me a sound file of him recording the ambiance of a [...]
I finally got an affiliate program setup for our store. Basically I would love to get a few guinea pigs, err I mean, helpful testers to try it out on their websites. I tested it this morning and it accurately tracked page views, clicks and a test order, but I don’t want to [...]
Very often I get emails asking how to do such and such with Japanese on the computer or where can I buy a keyboard with all 2000 kanji so I can type in Japanese, etc. I just got one (more former than latter) and thought, “You know, I should just write a blog post [...]
The new ad program WidgetBucks has been getting a lot of buzz—both the good kind and bad. (but who was it who said ‘any publicity is good publicity’?)
Some people have complained about being kicked out of the program (presumably for violating the T&Cs). Others have complained they haven’t actually received a penny, but from [...]
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