Category: The Web Sucks

I just got an identity theft lure via e-mail today: Dear_ Citibank Cardholders, This EMAIL was se-nt by-the Citibank server to veerify your_ _EMAIL address_. You must cptleome this pcseors by clicking on_the_link beloww and enntering in the litlle window_ your CITI_bank Atm_ card number and _PIN that _you use on_the Atm machine. That is […]

Today (thanks to Jeremy and Rasmus) I learned about a tool that I never knew I needed but now can’t live without: Mozilla LiveHTTPHeaders. I’ve been debugging HTTP for years using trusty text-based tools like telnet and nc, but today a quasi-technical person stopped by my cube to ask for help with a caching problem […]

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On the morning of Monday, November 17th, Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn-in as the 38th Governor of California on the west steps of the State Capitol.

I love DreamHost, my new ISP. I now have most of my domain names (hebcal.com, shtibl.com, and the rather stale utf-8.com) hosted there now. JR convinced me to switch last month. Even though I’ve been absurdly busy with Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, I’m happy I initiated the switch. For about the same price, […]

I saw this photo on the front page of Yahoo! today: “The MTV Video Music Awards turned into a red-hot, all-girl smooch-fest last night as Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera performed a raunchy, bump-and-grind dance routine that ended in explicit, open-mouth kisses.” I’m glad to see we still have our editorial integrity. 🙂

My friend Chris persuaded me to sign up for tribe.net, an online community/job networking website. It’s like 1999 all over again, and the web still sucks. Back then, PlanetAll promised to help you manage your contacts so you’d never need to update your address book every again; you just “linked” to someone’s PlanetAll account and […]

Avital laughed at my coffee mug yesterday at breakfast. Although familiar with the genre of “inspirational posters” from the SkyMall catalog, she had never come across the parodies of them. Obviously she had never seen Derek‘s cube. Back in 1999 when Yahoo! was still a relatively small company, we did a deal with Despair, Inc. […]

From Yoav Schlesinger’s Blog: Everybody to The Limit.

I read today that McDonald’s is doing 802.11 in the San Francisco Bay Area. “McDonald’s and Wayport Bring High-Speed Wireless Access to 75 Restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area… McDonald’s is the first quick service restaurant to offer high-speed wireless access in a major market. The new Wi-Fi service will be available at approximately […]