Archive for March, 2009

CAPTCHA is made of people!

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I have this idea to make a joke CAPTCHA generator. It would be just like a real CAPTCHA for verifying that the reader is a human, but instead of creating distorted letters with noise, it would just generate visual noise, and maybe some squiggles that might be letters. And it would have a button to […]

EasyCGI – Exactly As Expected

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

So I logged in to my new account at EasyCGI, to double check that all of my various hosting plans were indeed cancelled. No, I don’t trust them, they have the reputation of someone with a very bad reputation. And sure enough, in the interface I can see that they have all of my billing […]

Goodbye Webstrike. Hello FSCKVPS!

Friday, March 13th, 2009

The last month has been somewhat traumatic, because the web host for several of my sites sold out, and I had to move. The good news is that I’ve moved all of the sites to one unmanaged virtual private server at fsckvps, at a great price and excellent connectivity. This wasn’t exactly a good time […]