Dear Google, F*** you

It's, frankly, inconceivable that Google can't get FTP publishing to work properly.

And that "0.5%" statistic? How much do you bet that the denominator includes all the untouched blogs and spam blogs on Blogspot?

Idiots. This made me feel better, though. Best. Downfallcaptionage. Ever.

Fun in the snowpocalypse

T'was the night of January 5th, when it snowed and snowed and snowed. This is what we woke up to on January 6th.

As you can see, Oscar the Rhodesian Ridgeback's double-TPLO operations are completely healed (that's 'tibial plateau leveling osteotomy' to you, squire).

Links for Oct 16, 2009

Google CEO Schmidt: "Android adoption is about to explode"

Hyperbole aside, Android is clearly strategic enough for Google to aim for at least the #2 spot in the smartphone platform wars. But that's not the company's only target for the OS.

• http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26108
• http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/10/16/googles-android-attempting-a-takeover-of-the-mobile-world/

WeFollow acquired

Albeit "acquired" by another company run by the founder, Kevin Rose. WeFollow is a Twitter user directory.

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/confirmed-digg-acquires-kevin-rose-side-project-wefollow/
• http://www.businessinsider.com/digg-takes-on-kevin-roses-twitter-phone-book-2009-10

Twitter opens beta test of "Lists" -- allows users to categorize the people they follow

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/oct/16/twitter-lists-reputation
• http://lifehacker.com/5383134/twitter-lists-makes-following-easier-and-organized

Links for Oct 15, 2009

Microsoft/Danger confirms it will recover "all or most" Sidekick user data

T-Mobile breathes huge sigh of relief

• http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/oct09/10-15sidekick.mspx
• http://blogs.computerworld.com/14917/breaking_microsoft_recovers_data_for_t_mobile_sidekick_danger_hiptop_users

Tandberg rejects Cisco takeover offer

The shareholders are revolting

• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Tandberg-Shareholders-Reject-Cisco-3B-Offer-637046/
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cd9106de-b977-11de-abac-00144feab49a.html

Anatomy of a Facebook app exploit

AVG researcher spills the beans on Russian iFrame injection attacks

• http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2009/10/hacked-facebook-applications-reach-out-to-exploit-sites-in-russia.html
• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101409-facebook-applications-attack.html

Weird news dept.: Twitter launches its own wine label

Cheers! It's all for charity.

• http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/10/twitter_launches_its_own_fledg.php
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/twitter-would-like-some-cheese-with-its-wine/

Links for Oct 14, 2009

Latest iPhone 3GS defeats jailbreakers, for now

• http://blogs.computerworld.com/14909/iphone_3gs_jailbreak_jeopardy_apple_pwns_dev_team_24kpwn_exploit
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/173629/

Facebook growing faster than Twitter, which is plateauing

Facebook gets 96 million unique visitors in September, vs. Twitter's 21 million.

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/as-facebook-nears-100m-u-s-visitors-twitter-falls-further-behind-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
• http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Closes-in-on-100-Million-Users-in-the-US-124227.shtml

Digg.com has found a successful new way to make money from advertising

Asking users to vote for/against ads seems to be working.

• http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/diggs-vote-for-ads-experiment-is-raising-revenue/
• http://www.marketingvox.com/diggs-voting-process-for-ads-bears-fruit-045233/