Potpourri (curmudgeonly thoughts for breakfast)
jss @ February 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yes, I had to look that word up, which is a little shameful to someone who has done hard toime as a newspaper columnist. Because every once in a while, you don’t have that big, delicious idea in time for deadline, and you do a “potpourri” column, blended from all the ideas that weren’t quite [...]
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Translation Tool
jss @ February 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
OK — I write this small article very carefully.
WordPress has a translation plugin. I am trying it.
Look to the right and you can see where you can choose your language.
I speak only English and a little bit of German and Spanish. Please let me know if the translations are horrible and I will remove the [...]
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Launched Prisma Dental Blog … Yay! :-)
jss @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Prisma Dental Blog is up and running. It’s a site that I think, over time, will do a lot to inform people who need major dental work about the option of having it done in Costa Rica. I do not often get directly involved with recommending specific overseas medical facilities but I make an [...]
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Medical Travel on TV News
jss @ February 14, 2008 # One Comment
Medical travel continues to garner considerable media coverage. News 14 Carolina did this story yesterday; I post it in part because I’m included in the interview. They’ve got the before-and-after shots of my teeth in there as well, from 2004.
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Hollywood Greedheads
jss @ February 12, 2008 # One Comment
I am glad, I guess, that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has a new contract and will go back to work — not because I miss any television show, though, but because I am absolutely sure that writers would get the short end of the stick, or no stick at all, if they didn’t [...]
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Will McCain Stay Bought?
jss @ February 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The problem that the right-wing base of the Republican Party has with John McCain is not about whether he is conservative enough now. He’s always been pro-war and anti-abortion, and now he’s flippy-flopped and is toeing the party line on immigration and tax cuts as well.
About all he’s got left to do is renounce campaign [...]
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No More Porn Reports …
jss @ February 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well, there’ll be no more hard-hitting journalistic reports on porno sites like RedTube.com for this blog, Nosiree. Enough pandering to prurient interests. At least until the next time I feel like getting 10,000 page views in 36 hours.
Let’s move along to a fascinating web search factoid I just gleaned, which is that, amazingly, if you [...]
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RedTube: Our Registrar was Hacked
jss @ February 6, 2008 # One Comment
I got a note from FiveStarMedia today in response to my question from two days ago about RedTube being taken down. FiveStar owns RedTube and has built it into one of the most trafficked porn sites in the world in less than a year … and has put it up for sale, too. I [...]
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RedTube Hacked, Shorts in a Twist
jss @ February 5, 2008 # 8 Comments
Update 12:48 p.m. — RedTube seems to be offline again, at least from where I am. My attempt to connect times out when trying to hit the server at www.atspace.com. I can ping www.redtube.com just fine. I have no idea why they’re down; could be the technical staff took the site offline to work on [...]
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RedTube Hacked?
jss @ February 4, 2008 # 34 Comments
RedTube.com, one of the most trafficked porn sites on the web (Ranked 67th of ALL web sites by Alexa, as of right now) has allegedly been hacked by “Turkish Cyber Terrorists.” At least, take a look at the accompanying screenshot I took at a little before 5 p.m. today, Massachusetts time. (Screenshot)
Update 2: They’re back [...]
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