GoDaddy, Censored?
What Happened to Go Daddy’s second Super Bowl Ad Spot? Sounds interesting, I missed the first airing and wondered why it didn’t show up the second time.
And don’t ask why I’m posting at 5:04 on a Monday.
2/7/2005
2/6/2005
Follow the Super Bowl Ads
AdJab is posting summaries, screen captures, and reviews of Super Bowl commercials as they air. I dunno, I thought the one about the robbery was somewhat funny. Though I don’t know how these ads qualify as effective if you can’t remember who put it out.
Update: The MasterCard one was pretty good too.
Why I Hate Technology
It’s a pain to deal with.
I tried setting up Gallery on my personal blog, thinking that it would do a much better job of keeping my photos straight than whatever basic script I had written up/stolen and mercilessly hacked from some tutorial site.
For the record, I find Gallery to be one of the most clumsily set up and evidently bloated scripts, ever. The installation was comprised of something like 15 different tabs, each of which one had to review in the case that it had some required setting or something that was simply incorrectly detected. I get through it, though, and come upon the ugly template I apparently selected.
No matter, I can change it, just as soon as I log in.
But I can’t log in. It doesn’t like my admin password, and it tells me the admin user doesn’t exist when I tell it to e-mail me my password.
Comment Spam? Already?
Apparently. I got a trackback on my first entry at around 7 last night. Thankfully it never showed up because WP queues all comments by default.
So we’ll see what happens….
2/5/2005
Bienvenidos, and a Word about Developer’s Rights
It’s about time, I think, that I started some sort of public blog. I had one before, except then some friendly people who actually knew me got the link and had a bit of a field day with it. So I shut them off from it. That was in May 2003.
So almost two years later, I’m trying something different. Because there’s a nicely sized Intraweb out there, and I’m looking to actually have something of mine available to it. Thus, I established this. Apologies for the name, I’m truly not that inventive (though I capitalized the B in blog to prevent any mistakes in word-separation). Your ideas are appreciated. But we’ll see how this goes.
First on the agenda: developers, how they protect their applications against piracy, and how far they can and should go. In the interest of disclosing relevant details of my background, I am not a commercial software developer, and I’m not running a single piece of pirated software on either my computer or my PDA(s). Personally I rely on freeware and open-source software because I’ve found they can usually get the job done for my needs just as well as any commercial program.
There was a case in the 80s, the reference to which I credit to a poster in a thread to which I will link later, about a subway vigilante. It’s rather interesting if you’re unfamiliar with the case, it’s basically the case of a man shooting four kids because he thought they were robbing him. What does that have to do with software piracy? Keep reading.