Category Archives: Interwebs & Intrawebs

A Little Light Boxing

Posted on 2011 November 8, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

There are several methods for implementing the lightbox effect in a WordPress blog.  I was using the Lightbox 2 plugin since I started my blog a couple years back.  Or maybe I started with Lightbox and upgraded.  I really don’t … Continue reading →

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Installing dd-wrt without Windows

Posted on 2011 May 16, Monday by JamesIsIn

I won’t pretend to understand why the makers of dd-wrt would make all the installation tools Windows executables, but they have.  I mean, it’s a Linux based firmware.  Silliness. Fortunately I didn’t need Windows to use their tools.  I was able … Continue reading →

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Migrating WordPress in Bits and Pieces (or Not)

Posted on 2011 April 12, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

When I created my first blog, The Ink Wells, I envisioned it as a place for me to store things that either I wanted to remember (a sort of digital Internet-powered sticky-note) or which I wanted to easily access to … Continue reading →

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Windows Server too Demanding for dd-wrt

Posted on 2010 December 31, Friday by JamesIsIn

I have begun running dd-wrt on my router (on my network).  The advantages of using this open-source firmware over using that which was supplied by the manufacturer are numerous: great control, greater security, ease of use, a plethora of documentation, … Continue reading →

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Tor, Vidalia, and Privacy

Posted on 2010 November 11, Thursday by JamesIsIn

Yesterday I reported on a talk given by Eben Moglen (Blech!).  Among the things he talks about is a technology called Tor. Essentially, Tor is an world-wide network of relay servers integrated and designed to ensure the privacy of the … Continue reading →

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How the Cloud Turns I from Server to Serf

Posted on 2010 November 10, Wednesday by JamesIsIn

Here is a great collection of talks by Eben Moglen concerning cloud-computing and, among other things, spying.  He has an excellent wit, a broad set of real-world non-technical examples, and a powerful argument. Many of us are trying pretty hard … Continue reading →

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Facebook Is Coming for You Too

Posted on 2010 October 5, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

This evening I returned home from dinner at my favorite Thai restaurant (Thaiku) here in Ballard to find that when I refreshed Facebook I received a security warning from Opera. This should not be happening.  Facebook is requesting information about … Continue reading →

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to Google

Posted on 2010 September 10, Friday by JamesIsIn

Google has announced their newest technological innovation. It’s an instant search feature and they are calling it Google Instant. Pretty clever name, eh? I’ve never been all that interested in the look-ahead technologies out there. I turn the spelling correction … Continue reading →

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How Facebook Fails to Scrape

Posted on 2010 April 15, Thursday by JamesIsIn

I just wrote an article on setting up Google’s new Buzz (social site) to pull data from my blog.  I wanted to follow that up with an article on how to get Facebook to do the same.  The only problem … Continue reading →

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How I Spill Ink into Google Buzz

Posted on 2010 April 15, Thursday by JamesIsIn

I have a blog.  Shocking, I know.  I like to ensure that my social diseases sites are continually updated by my narcissistic ever-important posts. It has gotten to the point where my social sites have social sites, but the latest … Continue reading →

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