Sunday, October 26, 2008

Was that Coldplay or U2 on SNL?

You know, I love the band ColdPlay, but their appearance on SNL has me thinking too hard. Not about the introspection I think there was in their music but rather about how overly animated Chris was. Dude seriously, I love your enthusiasm, but what about dialing back the... er, whatever that was. Miss you man! I've appreciated being reminded of the beauty and tragedy around us and being inspired by your creativity. ...er, less so about reflecting on how creepy it was to watch Bono gyrating in that poor lady's face when U2 appeared on SNL... or your bobbing and yelping. ;-) Awkward! Oh my god, I'm old and stupid, how did this happen?!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

"safebrowsing.clients.google.com" is good for monkeys

Ah yes, from the dummys that brought you stupid comes the latest "safe" technology. I noticed that a few sites with subdomains on the 8k.com domain (a domain offered by one of the web's longest running web hosting providers, Freeservers) saw a precipitous drop in traffic. I thought, "ok, maybe Goigle's duncing again"... but didn't think much more of it... until now. I notice that all subdomains on 8k.com are being redirected through something called "safebrowsing.clients.google.com" which I guess is the new goon squad on the web. I guess these monkeys haven't heard of subdomains. Good job, you blocked off a massive chunk of the legitimate and useful web because some anti-social sysadmin or numskull exec decided they hadn't made enough noise in a meeting. Wow--hey that red button that says "blow up the world"... please, please don't push it!