Veraperez.com is back on business- July 19, 2008 After four very stressful days, Veraperez.com is back in business. The good news is that the Google mechanisms to detect and block malware distribution sites seems to work. The bad news is that the Google mechanisms that detect and block malware rely on the cooperation of your browser. Safari loaded my site every time, there was no warning. Firefox would not load ANY of the subdomains, or even the control panel. I did not bother to try with IE because I could not risk infecting my XP in...http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/veraperezcom-is-back-on-business.html Will the iPhone 3G blend- July 17, 2008 The only reason that I can stomach this is because I haven't upgraded my iPhones to 3Gs: (found through TUAW) God Bless The Internet.http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/will-iphone-3g-blend.html Veraperez.com got PWN3D- July 17, 2008 Yup, it happened. It doesn't matter how hard you work at it to keep a site up and running with proper software, somebody always finds a way to go around and exploit it. In my case, somebody, somehow, managed to inject one blog posting with an iframe that points to a known malware distribution site. Assholes. The sad thing is that the site was compromised just four days before Wordpress 2.6 came out, not that I know for sure if this new version has fixed that problem. And people still ask me...http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/veraperezcom-got-pwn3d.html Happy Birthday, Trinity!- July 16, 2008 Trinity was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo. Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb. The Fat Man bomb, using the same conceptual design, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, a few weeks later. The detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around 20 kilotons of TNT...http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/happy-birthday-trinity.html Portable paintball auto turret- July 13, 2008 Alec Esotrica showed me this abomination: There is a project page at http:www.paintballsentry.com.http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/portable-paintball-auto-turret.html Yahoo rejects joint proposal from Microsoft, Icahn- July 13, 2008 Sometimes you wish for problems to just go away, and it happens for a little bit. Then something like this comes up: SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise. As described by Yahoo in a statement released late Saturday, Microsoft packaged its latest offer with activist investor Carl Icahn, a billionaire who is seeking.http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/yahoo-rejects-joint-proposal-from.html A long trip- July 12, 2008 I spent a few years as one of the thousands of drivers that risk their lives on a daily basis in the Washington, DC beltway. In my case, it also included the Dulles Toll Road, which means an extra dosage of danger. These are very wide, multilane roads, where almost everyone seems to be driving no less than 20 MPH over the speed limit. Risk driving slower than the pack and it feels like they are trying to run you out of the road. If the weather cooperated, it was not bad. I had a 1993 Mazda...http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/long-trip.html Blogo- July 9, 2008 This is a test entry made with Blogo. Things I likedislike (most of these will be judged against Ecto, my golden standard for blogging):The preview actually pulls my blogspot template, pretty sweet.The way that the lists toggle works is a bit confusing.I don't see an HTML view.It uses less screen space, yet doesn't feel crowded.I am going to quote this sentence.I am really liking the live preview. It's a no-brainer.I just noticed that it keeps track of multiple images embedded into a post. I...http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/blogo.html What- July 3, 2008 Thanks to Alex Esotrica for showing me this:http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/what.html Twitter Bashing- July 2, 2008 It seems this is the month for the haters to get out of the woods and crank up the bashing against Twitter. It is one hell of an idea, with a horrible execution. The powers-that-be have figured out that instead of letting it crash hard, they can turn off certain features, so the service stays up in a stripped-down fashion. I actually approve of this, but only if it is done by design. Plus what the hell, it is a business decision, they are trying to trade outages for (user) outrage. People will..http://www.pedrovera.com/2008/07/twitter-bashing.html |