Tag: internet

  • Internet and Awesomeness Diagram – A Technical Post

    [[innerindex]] Introduction I’ve been involved in a number of conversations about how cool the internet is and how awesome many things are (specifically Ninjas). There is typically a great debate on what is and isn’t awesome, what is and isn’t on the internet, etc. Well, I’ve done years of research on the topic and will…

  • School Punishes Student For Blogging From Home

    Schools across the country are cracking down on student computer use; blocking social sites and proxy servers. Many schools are perfectly within their right to prevent teenagers from frequenting sites like MySpace, Facebook and Xanga while using school hardware. In all actuality, there is no real need for students to be on such social sites…

  • Google’s Private Internet? WTF Dale’s Back?

    I stumbled upon an article on Slashdot that points at Times Online UK. Times Online UK seems to be claiming that: Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation…

  • Ajax, More Than A Buzz Word

    Ajax the development technique, not to be confused with Ajax the cleaning solution, is taking the web by storm. What is it? Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Its an architectural methodology on the interactions between a number of different technologies in a way that provides a more seamless user experience between user-to-server communication.…

  • OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1

    This article on Escapist Magazine is amazingly funny and oddly true. It summarizes the assumptions that most on-line gamers have regarding gamer girls…attractive ones at that. Here’s an excerpt: I am a girl on the internet. Yes, I said it. A girl on the internet. There really are quite a few of us. I can…

  • Deleting the Internet

    I am always talking about deleting the internet. I have finally written a script that will traverse the ENTIRE internet (regardless of security) and delete everything. We’re talking images, video, text documents, pdfs, security files, EVERYTHING. It took me a while to code, but I believe it will work. I have not yet tested it…

  • Don’t Use the Internet

    Oh man. Friday I bought the domain name DontUseTheInternet.com. The purpose of the site will be to blog all kinds of complaints as to why we should boycott the internet…on the internet. Anyhow, that same day I purchased the domain, some dude up in Canada was looking at that domain name too. He saw that…