The Twitpocalypse has already claimed my favorite Twitter client for the iPhone, but apparently Twitter had a brief outage right when I wanted to post about ordering up my new laptop…
Archive for the ‘The Web’ Category
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Google Maps & Historical Traffic Data
2009
01.27
01.27
Living in the D.C. metro area, there is a new feature of Google Maps that is very useful. I was surprised to see they had quietly added a feature to peruse traffic scenarios based on historical traffic data, so that if you’re wondering if traffic sucks even worse at 5:30pm than it does at 4:45pm on Tuesdays, you can find the answer really easily.
Here are four quick screenshots to walk you through how it looks…
Click on “Traffic”…
It defaults to “Live” traffic. Click on “Change”…
Now you can set up the date and time for the historical traffic data you’d like to view. Here’s 4:45pm on Tuesdays on the Washington, D.C. Beltway.
And here’s 5:30pm on Tuesdays on the Washington, D.C. Beltway.
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If you’re looking for testicles, apparently my blog is the place to go.
2008
11.08
11.08
From my Webalizer logs, I’ve determined that people come to my blog looking for such interesting things as “testicles“, “rick james“, “girl panties“, “deadly platypus“, and… the number “82“.
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This is why I could never run for office…
2008
09.18
09.18
Gov. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account was hacked, and contents from her mailbox uploaded to Wikileaks.org. Depending on the method used, this means that either Yahoo! has a major security issue that could cause anyone’s e-mail to be accessed by someone else (!) or Sarah Palin has chosen some really craptacular passwords to protect her Yahoo! e-mail account.
(Which, incidentally, should not be used for any secret squirrel business because you have no control over the storage and dissemination of your e-mails from those services. Just ask Shi Tao — Yahoo! turned over his e-mails to the Chinese government and now he’s doing ten years in a Chinese prison!)
So if any of the “leaks” coming from her e-mail account become part of the scandal involving the possible firing of her ex-brother-in-law (there’s a hyphenated title if I ever saw one!), it’s quite possible that this hack could give legs to the “Troopergate” scandal.
Anyways, here’s the story from Wikileaks.org…
