Random Nerd Rants

Category: Internet

  • Wikis and other annoyances

    Wikis and other annoyances

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    Wikis are cool! I had installed MediaWiki on my server some time ago, but it remained 99% of the time idle because to be honest I had no idea what to do with it. Recently I’ve installed Debian on my desktop and I kept thinking it would be cool to have a written “to-do list”…

  • Why I closed down my Facebook

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    This week I closed down my Facebook account. It was not an easy decision to make. I’d been thinking about it for the last few months, after realizing that the site has become a very different creature than what it was when it all began, over ten years ago. Back then, around 2005, social networks…

  • The trouble with tribbles

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  • More a test than a post

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    Although this is more of a test than a real post, I wanted to put something here anyway. It’s not easy coming up with stuff to write in a blog. Anyone who has ever had one knows it. Especially if it’s not a theme-oriented enterprise, but just some place where one would like to register…

  • Testing Flock

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    As usual, I’m not satisfied with stuff in my computer. For some reason there’s always something I feel could be better in my computer. A program that could be doing stuff it does not but would be useful to me, a way it should behave or something else. I’m not complaining. This is actually simply…

  • Where is the web going?

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    Some time ago I began using Google Reader to stay up-to-date with stuff. By stuff I mean blogs from friends, news from several sites, updates from scientific publications, lolcats/loldogs, and so on. Basically, everything. That brings to mind something very odd that’s been happening to the internet. People don’t have to go to websites to…

  • More useless statistics

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    Today I received my shinystat weekly report. It’s amazing how every now and then it gets to surprise me. Today, I noticed a pretty cool feature: it shows me, regarding hits on the blog coming from search engines, the search keywords that caused Stairway to Geekiness to show up in the results. What took me…