I’ve been at work for close to two hours now and the most requested “support” call of the semester so far is “where can I watch the inauguration?” 🙂 When in need of info or a solution of any kind people always seem to turn to us, IT folks. Luckily this time the solution is easy. Point their web browsers …
MacRumorsLive stream compromised
I have been following MacRumorsLive for a while now when it comes to Macworld and other Apple related events, but today they seems to be experiencing difficulties. Their AJAX way of updating readers with text and photos seems to have been compromised as you can see in the above photo. Few minutes later, things started to get worse. As I …
Twitter “celebrity” accounts own3d
Several Twitter accounts belonging to a few popular individuals and news agencies have been compromised today. Control has been regained on most of them in a matter of hours with help of Twitter’s support team. Above is a quick snapshot of a couple I was able to take while they were still own3d by someone else. Here is what Twitter …
Value of social networks
I have been asked several times what’s the value of getting involved in online social networks so here are my 4 ¢ (adjusted for inflation) on that topic. 😉 Most social networking services have been designed differently (technology, functionality, features…) with different customers/segments in mind, but all of them share one common theme, enabling people to socialize and build online …
When Verizon fails
Today was certainly one of those days which would live up to an ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”. From around 1:20 pm until 5:30 pm we (MSU campus) were separated from the rest of the world. Well, it wasn’t quite that dramatic, but it sure sounds intriguing, right? 🙂 During those 4+ hours we were without …
Google Reader
Somehow over the past few years I have settled on Feedreader as my RSS aggregator of choice. Overall, it’s a good application, it had its minor issues along the way, but it was doing its job quite well. Throughout the years of my RSS subscription mania I have accumulated hundreds of feeds which became rather unmanageable and would generate thousands …
Twitter from an iPhone
Ever since I got an iPhone as a birthday present (thank you Courtney!) in July of this year I have been using Twitterrific as the Twitter app of choice. At that time, it was one of the first apps to market and it worked fairly well. Plus, it’s FREE! 🙂 However, over the past several weeks the application started crashing, …
WordPress plugins
As I look through the sea of WordPress plugins to test and potentially add to this blog in order make my life easier, generate more useful data and make it more interesting for visitors I’ve realized that this could turn into a fairly complicated process. Considering that the number of plugins keeps growing almost daily there are several things one …
Aetna web maintenance
I normally try not to rant online too much as it is really pointless and generally counterproductive. We have all experienced poor customer service, long waits and rude representatives, but at times certain behavior exceeds all stupidity. This is one of those times. Today, at 12:30 PM I have tried to log into an Aetna account and wasn’t able to …
Twitter background
I changed my Twitter background and in order for me to “peek” to the left of the Twitter time line resolution suffered. It’s not my best photo editing work, but it’s good enough for my first attempt. 😉 Here’s the full resolution JPG file in case you want to tweak it for your own background.