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I’m Part of the 0.0002%

I kept my last name off the internet for 5 years.

This is my Google+ account – KeriBlog.

It’s been suspended since I got it;
they don’t like my last name, “Blog”.

So I wrote to them saying noooo.

Hours later Google replied I was right.

Now here’s the interesting part.

There is very little information online to guide you, because this issue is so rare.

This article from TechCrunch sums it up:

0.1% of 50 million users submit name appeals,

20% of that is like me.

Let’s do the math on that…

Conclusion:

I’m part of the 0.0002% or 1 / 10,000

It’s not without issue though… because of this rarity, I end up with problems that are not documented and likely few have.

For example: my Picasa photo uploader stopped working for no reason two weeks ago. Which I almost had a meltdown over; that’s like a carpenter’s hammer vanishing. The worst part is there’s nothing I can do about it.

Being a spy is a lot of extra ugh.

Regardless of everything though, ha!

Because if Google says it’s true,
it’s true, right?

 

 

New Blog Theme Coming Soon

Plain, simple, white & blue KeriBlog… 2010 – 2012… RIP

I’m going to miss it!

I like my plain everything, it’s how I think websites should look like: blue links, obvious navigation, brain-dead layout, not trying to re-invent the wheel, content highlighted above all else, plus I’m obsessed with load time. I’m so 1998.

But it’s time. Now to give KeriBlog the proper packaging it deserves.

Then repeat the process 10 more times.

I have 12 in total.

KeriNetwork!

Choosing a new theme is a really big deal.  What if stuff breaks when you install it?  Are you sure the people building it will update it?  Because if not, or if they go out of business, you now have a big blog security problem.

Below is an email I wrote to my friend who’s helping me with the install.

It’s the thought process behind it all.

(new theme is by ThemeFuse)

If you need a sysadmin… or anything done in: C/C++, Python, Matlab/Symulink, html/php/css/javascript, then shell scripting like bash… or Matlab (!)… you want @NodeZero_Linux

Please don’t insult him by asking for anything free, and besides, his rates are already too low if you ask me ;)

Thanks buddy XO

 

You NEED to Care About SOPA and PIPA

Very very basically:

Hollywood started all this.  They were all “waaaah, our movies are being pirated around the world and we want that to stop because we are greedy d-bags“.

So they complained to Congress, who drew up the two bills:

     SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act

     PIPA – Protect IP Act.

If these bills pass, they will make our internet

like China’s – extremely censored.

CNET called SOPA, “an Internet death penatly”.

Watch this animated .gif from The Oatmeal, it explains it beautifully:

 

 

 

What about the smaller sites we all use to post photos, keep documents… what if they are wrongly accused and removed?  Goodbye to all your photos and digital life, and no, you’ll never ever get them back.

I predicted this last year, fast forward to 0:37.

We can’t vote in Canada on this, we’re counting

on you big time, American friends!

 January 24 – please vote.

Further Reading

Gizmodo

F.A.T

SOPAStrike.com

 

 

 

First Post from my iPhone

This is where I type out the post.

Let’s bold these three words. Easy.

What of I use quote?

Ahhh I put the text in here. Then I’ll keep typing to make this nice and long as to really see how a quote is displayed.

What will this do? Strike through im guessing

This one will be italic obviously

Wait there’s more?! Oh wow this WordPress app is amazing.

We’ve got underline, list, ordered list and a more tag, nice nice.

Let’s add a link. I’ll link up this. Phft easy.

Tags, categories, it’s all right here.

Kay that’s all that, now let’s add two photos, one I take now and one from my existing ones…

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Oh this is amazing! Just add the text in between like this.

I have feeling that second pic will be far too large, let’s publish and see.

What a pleasure that was. I feel like I was living in olden times on my blackberry

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What the app looks like.

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Things From My Week

My Acura TSX has been performing great, it’s has a hidden speed and zip, very me.

Of course I took it to Cherry Beach, you know I love that place.

Watch this guy front flip over an Acura.

Also.

I went to a Lomography party at the Queen Street store.

Lomography is a world-wide big trend happening right now… it’s analogue film photography. Think like in olden times… film, developing the film, view finders….

I really like the “one take one chance” aspect, I built the Canadian Explorer around that premise, but I don’t know about the developing the film part, and remember my rant?  About HD and Tape Editing It really picks up there at the end.

The cold is coming.

Man my hair looks great Brennen, I think this is your best one yet.

I need to clean my stove.

  1. my fanciest USB key, a Swarovski lock. See it in the sidebar on my other blog (soon)
  2. that’s what we’re going to solder when we go learn how to solder next week for Keri On Security
  3. my toothbrush/lipgloss everyday purse bag. It’s NellaBella, you’d like their stuff, made here in Toronto
  4. see that larger here
  5. a Pentium I wear as a pendant
  6. tiniest Big Mac ever
  7. my camera, an Olympus Stylus Tough – you can stand on it, it’s waterproof, 12 Mpx

Outfits from this week.

Outfit from Suzy photoshoot last weekend, which I can’t wait to show you, which I’m still not allowed to, sometime in October she said.

Here’s to a great Monday and start to your week! TTYS xo

 

 

 

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