Category Archives: Web/Tech

Net Neutrality And The Google/Verizon Deal

First off, what is Net Neutrality. Whew! That’s a heck of a question. It is somewhat simple to answer. Imagine a city. While driving around, you find that different roads have different speed limits. We all know that. Now, imagine that city is the Internet. Certain parts are intentionally faster than others. Now, what if […]

Blogrolls Removed

I’d heard about the problems with Blogrolling.com causing malware warnings, hadn’t seen it with my site since I’ve only accessed it with Firefox and IE. Michael at Jumping In Pools pointed out the warnings using Chrome, so, I’ve removed all the blogrolls till fixed. If not fixed in a couple weeks, I’ll just have to […]

Friday Awesome: Google Earth Pwnd By “Dead” Girl

How ’bout something a little more humorous for a Friday morning, as opposed to hard edged politics? Besides, we all all know that Obama will take a vacation, Joe Biden will say something incredibly inane, Harry Reid will find a way to lower his approval rating, and liberals will take sides with Islamists. Whoops! Anyhow […]

Email Issues

Hey, sorry for the no replies to emails and comments over the last day. Something went really weird with my wteach@thepiratescove.us email password, was changed or something from what it was. Generally, I see all my email through my Blackberry first, rarely checking webmail, except to clean it out when needed. I changed it back […]

Iphone Users Have More Sex!

Is there nothing that the iPhone can’t do? iPhone users struggle to place or receive calls on their smartphones — except, apparently, when said calls are of the ‘booty’ variety. According to a recent survey from OKCupid, iPhone owners, on average, have more sex partners than either Android or BlackBerry owners. In a survey of […]

What’s On Your iPhone? Plus, A Great Contacts Sync App

Earlier in the week, President Friedman dropped a comment about what is everyone’s favorite iPhone apps. Let’s see, I have 92 apps, including the ones that come with the iPhone. Now, I used to sync my iPhone contacts, calendar, and notes up with the corporate laptop, and everything else with the personal. Of course, the […]

Apple IOS 4 Explained

Yup, updated my iPhone yesterday to OS 4.0, pretty nice. I love the folders option, and multitasking will be sweet, once there are apps designed for OS 4.0. Yes, that is a requirement. That said, the best place I have found to learn about all the enhancements is not the Apple website, but, this post […]

New Computer Time!

Yes, my HP kinda died. Sort of. I was in the middle of something on Sunday, and it just froze. Shut it off. Restart. Windows would not restart. Tried all sorts of things. No dice. Sigh. I did manage to rescue all the data except the downloads folder and the Firefox bookmarks folder, which I […]

Guy Who Joke Tweeted About Blowing Up Airport Still Whining

Remember this guy from back in January? It’s so nice for the UK Guardian to give this gent, Paul Chambers, a chance to vent his whine My tweet was silly, but the police reaction was absurd: For one joke on Twitter I’ve had my civil liberties trampled on, and have now got a criminal record […]

FCC Pushes Hard For Net Neutrality Rules. What Could Go Wrong?

Another day, another push by Democrats to control something In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks. The decision, by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, is likely to trigger a vigorous […]

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