So Google has started integrating sales into your phone’s photo editor, and there are a lot of angry people who have essentially lost the ability to sort or edit photos in their phones. But computers really ARE stupid, which is why I am convinced such a thing as “AI consciousness”…
Q: “On a scale of 1-10, how likely would you be to recommend WordPress.com to a friend?” A: 8 Q2: “What is the most important reason for your score?” A2: I am a big believer in self hosted WordPress sites and very much appreciate the code availability from WordPress.ORG. Self…
There has always been a back door to ICANN and the DNS database, because in 2009 I personally witnessed Registrar GoDaddy criminally use it, to create a “4.5 year old” domain name that had never existed before (and we could prove it), to shake down a customer for an escalated…
Hello Mr. Trump, I got your text message requesting ideas for your campaign, and I contributed what money I could afford by following the link. I only wish it could be more, but the idea I want you to know for your campaign is SOOOO important (it’s bigger than TPP),…
WordPress.org is currently taking it’s WordPress 2014 survey. Now is the chance to have your say, sort of. After 20-odd check box questions, I finally got 1 text-area box to expound on what I really think, and I did: Q.22 No, I do not use the Android App, because the…
About a week ago, I had specifically set my Facebook settings to give me the “Most Recent” posts, NOT “Top Stories”, because I was missing too much from the people I wanted to hear from, and was tired of the pablum Facebook was force-feeding me. Well, today, all my friends were…
Jump to the Bottom Line Several years ago, I wrote an eyewitness account about how I had personally witnessed a domain name that had never existed before – my rather naïve client had repeatedly searched and confirmed it was available without actually buying it – and then it was suddenly a…
I hate to say it, but I don’t really like handling other people’s domain names for them, although I do it for family. In my field, I’ve seen too much. Domains hold such power, that they can become pawns in billing issues, divorces, big corporate lawsuits, thefts, fraud, or even…
About a month ago, all the admin sides of all WordPress sites I manage started displaying notices that WordPress 3.0 was available, please upgrade. I keep each site automatically backing up its own database, so I ploughed ahead, confident I could fix anything that could go wrong, even if I…
In the last few months, I’ve been called upon several times to recover web sites from hacker damage. Two were WordPress sites , and one was a Joomla site that was repeatedly hacked. Some hacks are pretty funny — some teenager strutting his testosterone by replacing your front page with…
