Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

The longest domain name possible

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Just in case you were wondering, thisisofficiallythelongestdomainnamethatyouareallowedtoregister. Now some people might want to be naysayers and point out that I could have registered it as a .co.uk or even .org.uk domain and it would have been even longer, but those are TLDs and they miss the point. The longest domain name that ...

Weird HTTP referer problem

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

For the past few months I've been developing my own version of Google Analytics. Don't take that the wrong way, I absolutely love Google Analytics and I think that anyone who isn't taking advantage of it is missing out big time. However, there are data that Google simply ...

Redirecting old blog URLs

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

During the switch from Movable Type to WordPress I decided to change the URL structure of this blog. The old category style archive pages from my Movable Type system were in the /archives directory and the permalinks for my individual posts included the date. The URL for this ...

TaxSlayer

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

I filed my taxes last night. For the past three years now I've used an online service called TaxSlayer, and this year is no exception. It takes about five minutes to enter all of your information and you pay $10 to have your tax return (if you get ...

Hijacked DNS?

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Today I found that one of my domains was not displaying my website, but instead was showing visitors a list of Google AdWords sponsored links, and throwing malicious pop-under windows. I did a quick ping, nslookup and a whois query on it. The ping replied from 66.45.237.187. Not my ...

Mayhem Nation is back!

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Several years ago I started hanging out with a few troublemakers in an online multiplayer game called America's Army. We really got to know each other from the time we spent on a game cheats forum. I can't for the life of me remember which one it was ...

Electronic Bigass Auction Yard?

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

For quite a long time now I have wondered exactly what the hell 'eBay' was supposed to mean. Unfortunately, this has tended to pop into my head when I wasn't near a computer to look it up. Today was different though. I finally looked it up. ...