What is Web 2.0?

I ran across this great video titled “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us.” by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University that presents the concept of Web 2.0 in a very interesting and informative way.

Insecure Protocols, Passwords, Ettercap, and PHP

So I was doing my daily web browsing looking for something cool, when I came across something that for the first time really hit home how completely unsecured the Internet is and how simple it is for people to grab your passwords.
Now, I’ve been on/using the Internet in one shape or form since 1987, and [...]

Yahoo! vs. Google

A simple visualization that compares the order of the search results from Yahoo & Google. You can try your own search strings at yahoo! vs. google via infosthetics

Updated Layout

Thanks to the server outage, I’ve had plenty of time tonight to upgrade my entire site. I’ll post later what I did and all of the changes that I made (and the fixes that I had to hack together). There are still a couple of things that I want to do and/or correct. I’ll [...]

Bad GigaBot! Down Boy, Down

OK, so you’re probably thinking this is a post about some new type of robot that has gone crazy, and in a way you would be right. The recent upgrade (still in progress) to site requires a significant increase in the amount of CPU cycles. Normally this would not be much of a problem, but [...]