It’s been a while since I’ve come across sites that I thought other people should visit, but here are a few that I enjoy and think you might also.
Navy CyberSpace Blog - Run by a retired Navy Career Counselor Master Chief, NavyCS offers a great amount of information related to the Navy, and would definitely [...]
Visiting the Stars & Stripes website this morning, I was surprised to see the following:
Stripes.com hacked; users’ computers may be affected
The Stars and Stripes Web site appears to have been struck by a hacker early Saturday. Indications are that this may have been related to an automated cyber-attack launched last month that [...]
I know I haven’t written anything in over a month, but I’m too busy playing war. First and foremost, this post is completely insignificant and is a rant based completely on my idiotic assumptions with no factual basis whatsoever.
People who read this blog have heard me mention my hobby of collecting vintage photos of [...]
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Posted 26 June 2007
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Ok, so Navy.TogetherWeServed.com doesn’t call itself the “Navy MySpace,” but it might as well. I’m not sure how I got invited, or who the guy that invited me even is, but I’m glad I was. At first glance I didn’t think much of the site. I figured it would have a bulletin board from [...]
I’m using a new AIM screen name, so if you’d like to know it and be added to the new buddy list, email me at Jim(at)Fewl.net.
Nearly a decade ago I hit a low point in my life. I became an AOL hacker. I’m sure there are plenty of chuckles from security types, but there were [...]
I used to joke that once the Navy blocked YouTube, I was out. Well, it’s official. The Navy, at least in Japan, has blocked YouTube and I resign from being a US Sailor effective immediately. Alright, it mat not be that easy, but I don’t think I can take being treated like a child [...]
I just happened to stumble across Clipart.com, a site that actually charges money for the boring clipart you stare at during mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations. The worst part is that something like this wouldn’t exist if people were actually forking money over for it. It got me thinking about a lot of other stupid services that [...]
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Posted 27 September 2006
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I was watching some YouTube videos when my mail email program popped up to let me know I had new mail. To my dismay it was just another PayPal scam. It let me know that my account information needed to be updated by tomorrow, otherwise my account would be terminated. Being that I had nothing [...]
First it was web mail, then MySpace and dating sites. Now it’s various instant messaging (IM) sites that are the latest targets to be added to the list of stuff the people who defend this country can’t do. I know a lot of people on board who used various chat sites, like Meebo.com and eMessenger.net, [...]
This might be a slight follow up to Dr. Dave’s Followup on Wordpress Security Issue. I just woke up after a long flight from Virginia to Tokyo and got to this link via Jem’s site. Details on the vulnerability are sketchy so I thought I’d take a look for myself. The followup post said that [...]
At least 6 years ago I used to be involved in what some would call the AOL scene. I’m sure I’m hearing snickers from any true geek that happens to stumble across this post, but I assure you while the motives were lame, the techniques were many times very ingenious. I was one of the [...]
This is kind of weird. I decided to try my hand at another game of Ro-Sham-Bo-whatever on Moola. I was on level 7 where I found the opponent StopSayingNo. Well, I beat him…pretty easily too. Then when I went to play again he was selected as my opponent on the next level!? If the point [...]
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Posted 29 June 2006
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I’ve read a lot of articles lately about people like Chris Pirillo and Dave Winer talking about the power of users. The jist is that people need to move away from the outdated notion that developers are in control, and that the users, in fact, are in control. Software isn’t any good if no one [...]
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Posted 28 June 2006
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One of my fondest memories of my growing up was watching Snick, a Saturday night lineup of four shows on Nickelodeon. The original shows were Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, Ren & Stimpy, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? AYAOTD was a show about a group of kids known as The Midnight Society [...]
Ask Yahoo! is a stupid service where lazy people ask stupid questions that no one really cares about, to self-proclaimed experts who just google it search for the answer using Yahoo! Why anyone would email a question to Yahoo!, then wait days or weeks for an answer, when all they have to do is google [...]
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Posted 05 June 2006
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Yes I just think it’s a marketing buzzword trying to redefine already created technologies. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been eating it up like it left and right. Here are my top favorite Web 2.0 sites. I’m sure you’ve heard of them, but eh.
Moola.com - This is definitely the most entertaining of all [...]
I’m a very nosey person. I’m so nosey, that sometimes I like to see what “hidden” subdomains of big web companies are open to the public. The quickest way to do this is to use nmap. Nmap stands for Network MAPper, and is an extremely powerful command-line tool for conducting enumeration on different networks/computers. [...]
For the second time in about a week, I got a warning saying my site was maxing out its bandwidth limit. I haven’t had any noticable increase in visitors or comments, so I wasn’t sure what could be causing the spike in traffic. I checked out my logs and quickly noticed a lot of referrers [...]
This isn’t a long post. I was just sitting here thinking about how easily, assuming they don’t already have preventions in place, it would be for someone to write a worm that edited random articles in Wikipedia. Sure, they have a lot of volunteers, but what if thousands of machines were infected and editing thousands [...]
I saw this video on YouTube of some guy from the early 90s trying to market himself as the “Average Homeboy.” He’s a white middle class guy who doesn’t do drugs, and expresses himself through rap. This is just too good.
I’m not the typical rapper that you’ll meet.
I dont live in a box nor was [...]
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Posted 18 April 2006
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