KeriBlog

Cars, Security & a Peek into my Life

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?

 

 

Have You Visited My Hippie Blog Lately?

I just re-designed it.

The ‘Before’ shot.

And the big reveal… tada!

The ‘After’.

 

I Am Not a Hippie .com – Updated daily Monday – Friday

 

Fun links include:

 

 

:)

About Installing My New Blog Theme

Things are looking sharp around here at KeriBlog eh?!! :D

Be mindful of the two potential security holes in your website:

1 – Always update your theme, and to get your theme from a company that will provide updates
2 – Your log-in name and author name are likely the same, so don’t display it by the “posted by”

What installing a new theme looks like:

Next up: making my sidebar amazing. I have a list on paper here.

Pumped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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