rant

i hate being sick

I have a wicked cold, and my face feels like it’s packed with.. well, snot. It sucks. Zeropaid is humming along nicely, we are hiring a bunch of new positions. I also need a good pr agency that wants to work for peanuts.
I am itching to get FMS Netcheck generating revenue, just need a [...]

san diego mayor resigns

So unless you live in san diego or pay close attention to these things, you probably don’t know our mayor has resigned, our deputy mayor is under indictment, and our city is 2 steps shy of bankruptcy. Other than the people we elect to run our civic business, San Diego really is a GREAT place [...]

hallelujah!!!!!!!

Finally got comments working on news stories for v2. What we are doing is keeping our old news but modifying the urls. So http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/02232005a.php becomes http://dev01.zeropaid.com/news/5137/Wayne+Rosso+vs.+P2P+Community/. It’s a little more search engine friendly. We also wanted to utilize vBulletin, our bbs / membership engine, to handle news comments. So now when we publish a news [...]

blog censorship

In a great example of how studies and numbers can be manipulated to sell you any side of a story, 80% of Americans believe in blog censorship. When, in all actuality,
More than one-third of respondents had never heard of blogs before participating in the survey, and only around 30 percent of participants had actually visited [...]

another t-mobile hacking

I guess Vida Guerra’s sidekick was hacked in another display of t-mobile’s incompetence. I mean, who says “you know what would be a great idea? you know all that info ppl store on their phones usually? like pictures and contacts and appointments and such? let’s put all that on a central server so its all [...]

stupid ^%#$%!@ sendmail

So I just discovered (via several abuse complaints to my isp) that someone is using one of my web servers for Zeropaid as a spam relay. Sendmail is only relaying via localhost, but when i tail /var/log/maillog it is sending mail off the hook, which is not something we do. Only mail for subscribed threads, [...]

auto verizon message in my posts

dammit whenever i try to post to my blog thru flickr verizon adds this dumb message to my posts:

This message was sent using PIX-FLIX Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
To learn how you can snap pictures with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/getitnow/getpix.
To learn how you can record videos with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/getitnow/getflix.
To play video [...]