Posts Tagged ‘web’

Red Link of Death

Leave it to Google to come up with interesting new things.  I downloaded the latest version of Chrome and noticed that several things have changed.  You can now synchronize extensions and preferences across browsers.  The best part though is the new graphic for SSL certificates: This is the graphic that you now see when you [...]

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Roadrunner Issue Resolved

The Roadrunner delivery issue at work has been resolved.  I waited all weekend to see if our e-mail would deliver.  Roadrunner’s block on our IP address was never removed.  I sent an e-mail address to postmaster@rr.com with no luck.  There isn’t even an autoreply configured for that account.  All of the other major ISP’s resumed [...]

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Practice Safe Searching

As I was navigating the internet today at work I noticed a new Google feature that seems rather interesting: Google has released the beta version of their https encrypted search website.  Google probably didn’t encrypt their searches from the beginning due to the increased overhead of the https protocol.  After several test searches I cannot [...]

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Social Networks Redirect Issue

While managing the network infrastructure at our Annual Conference I have run across a weird redirect issue.  All of the computers in the News Room running Windows XP, Vista and 7 started redirecting to MySpace pages.  In the beginning it was redirecting to an actual profile.  After an hour or so the website started returning [...]

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Google Stands Up To China

Google is taking a courageous stand against China.  Good for them! We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully [...]

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Goodbye Geocities

I remember setting up my first Geocities webpage back when I was in college.  In 1995 anyone who could make their own webpage was some kind of technical wizard.  I spent a lot of time hand coding html files with a text editor.  Creating a website is a completely different process now. This is the [...]

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