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Entries from April 2008

Fed Up With Dreamhost: Horrible Hosting Company

April 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Summary
I’ve now officially begun my search for a new web hosting provider. Having had increasingly bad service from Dreamhost since Day 1, it has taken me this long to finally bite the bullet and search for a new host because I was naive in paying for 2 years of hosting up front. As of now [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology · Uncategorized

Jacob In The News

April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Roxor:

CNet Web 2.0 Security Article
Article about Obama & Clinton Website Vulnerabilities

Woot.

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Tags: Blog

Hillary Clinton Supporters — The Global Warming Deniers of Democratic Politics?

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Hillary Clinton supporters seem to have become the equivalent of global warming deniers in Democratic politics. If facts don’t suit your argument, insist on the opposite. And even more importantly, insist that your non-facts get at least 50% of the coverage.
The Clinton team is now trying to make the specious argument that she is winning [...]

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Tags: Politics · Primaries

Genius

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment


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Tags: Video

The Rules of Clintonball

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

by Hunter of DailyKOS
Forget the spin: the race is where it is. Clinton won Pennsylvania. The overall delegate margin has barely budged, however, and it is now even more assured that there is no reasonable scenario where Clinton can pull out a primary win absent intervention by the superdelegates.
I was never a Clinton fan, in [...]

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Tags: Politics · Primaries

How To Fix Your Twitter

April 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Courtesy of Mashable:

Have you, like so many other users, experienced problems with Twitter in the last couple of days? Not getting updates from all the people you’re following, but only a handful? The problem seems to be lying with Twitter cache.
Here’s a quick fix for the problem. Simply find some person you’re not already following, [...]

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Tags: Internet · Social Networking · Technology · Web 2.0

Twitter Having Problems? Say It Ain’t So!

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

It has been a good while since twitter has had serious uptime issues. The last time it happened was…well….since this. Well - Twitter is up to its old tricks again. It isn’t offline per say, but it might as well be. As others have pointed out Twitter has been having serious issues since Saturday, April [...]

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Tags: Internet · Social Networking · Technology · Web 2.0

Lessig Lectures the FCC on the Need for Neutrality

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Now we know why none of the major carriers showed up for Thursday’s open FCC meeting at Stanford University: Who wants to take on Larry Lessig, the lion of Net Neutrality, in his own den?
Class was in session when Stanford law prof Lessig delivered a powerful lecture on the need for neutral networks, telling the [...]

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Tags: News · Technology

Who Lost The Debate? ABC News.

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama tells an amusing story about his first tour through downstate Illinois, when he had the audacity to order Dijon mustard on his cheeseburger at a TGI Friday’s. His political aide hastily informed the waitress that Obama didn’t want Dijon at all, and thrust a yellow bottle of ordinary-American [...]

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Tags: Politics · Primaries

The Pope

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Pope, originally uploaded by joelhousman.

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Tags: Flickr · Photography