Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Computer stuff
Here’s a neat idea that goes along with GeoURL. Blog Map created by Chandu Thota.
You simply add GeoURL or GeoTags meta tags to your weblog index page. Then go to BlogMap and sumbit your weblog URL. Then you’re rewarded with linkage that gives you a map of your blogging neighbours (or neighbloggers). Pretty nifty, I think.
I don’t seem to have many neighbloggers yet.
Found via J Bentley
The dial-up on the home computer has been acting up badly and considering the laptop has no problems connecting or staying connected, it probably means it’s time for another computer cleaning. It’s something I try to get to at least twice a year, although I probably should do it more often considering how much dust and fluff the carpets throw off. Realistically I usually only manage to get to it once a year or so.
I really need to put the computer in a more accessible spot so the routine cleaning is less of a pain in the a** to do.
In case anybody had some strange reason for wanting to send me encrypted mail, this is the public key I use most often (i.e. the one I still remember my pass-phrase to).
Those pesky pop-under ads are back. After switching to Firefox, it was so nice never having to see pop-up/under ads anymore. But someone’s figured out a way around Firefox’s pop-up/under ad blocking and now they’re polluting my eyeballs again.
Argh.
So far only one website I (used to) visit on a regular basis (which I won’t be anymore) has these new pop-up ads. Web advertising has become one of those necessary evils. I can live with ads plastered all over a website (obviously the less obtrusive and annoying, the better), but making ads pop up windows all over my screen like weeds is a guaranteed way of driving my eyeballs away from a site. I’m sure the same goes for many other geeks too.
Pop-up ads…just say no.
GeoURL is back! The 2.0 version is still in beta, but just as easy to use as before. In fact the required tags haven’t changed at all and seems to function in pretty much the same way it did before. It was cool when I discovered it back in July 2003, and still is now that it’s back.