MacAfee has published a interesting look into the most dangerous search terms on the web. Most people know that searching for porn or cracked programs will inevitably lead you to sites that will try to steal your information via phishing or some sort of malware. The interesting thing about this report is that those [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Web’
Quite A Blow To The Ego
March 17th, 2009
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The worst part is that the top 3 hits on Google for “sean lavelle sucks” are a post on this blog, this blog’s front page and then my resume. Having a low self esteem moment…
Wall Street on the Tundra – Explaining Iceland’s Financial Meltdown
March 4th, 2009
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Vanity Fair has a great article on Iceland’s current economic troubles. It’s long, but very informative and entertaining. To put our financial crisis in perspective, Iceland’s debt is 850% of it’s GDP and the stock market fell 85%. Although it has nothing to do with the financial crisis, this was by far my favorite line:
Because [...]
Power Twitter Tricks
February 23rd, 2009
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One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it is so extensible. You can use it to accomplish a ton of tasks with almost no work on your part. Recently, several friends had of mine had joined Twitter and asked about how I do some things. I thought it might be beneficial [...]
Giant Spider Attacks Liverpool
February 9th, 2009
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This blew my mind. As part of a performance art project last year La Machine created a giant mechanical spider that paraded through Liverpool as part of the city’s Capital of Culture year. Named La Princesse, it looks like something out of a movie. As always Boston.com’s the Big Picture has amazing shots by Peter [...]
All aTwitter Redux : 9 Months In
January 26th, 2009
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It’s been almost 9 months since I started using Twitter and it’s kind of been a revelation. I was looking at my old post back when I first joined and laughed when I saw how skeptical that I was that I was going to find it at all useful. As it stands now, Twitter is [...]
My Favorite Picture From the Election
November 8th, 2008
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Thanks to Peter from “this isn’t happiness” for the hook up.
Earth From Above
October 6th, 2008
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Boston.com’s Big Picture has a set of work by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. All I can say is “Wow”. Beautiful photographs from a high angle from all over the globe.
If you haven’t subscribed to Boston.com’s big picture feature, you really should.
Transparent PNGs with IE
September 2nd, 2008
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Yesterday I finally got around to doing some cleanup on the site. I forget sometimes how easy CMSs like Wordpress actually make publishing and writing on the web. That is until I actually have to go into my website and edit some of the old HTML pages by hand in vi. That is what I [...]
