Gordaen's Blog

I’m not sure if anyone of any significant influence reads my blog regularly (God, are you there?), but that doesn’t prevent me from rambling about something everyone hates: being talked down to. No matter how stupid you are, you want to be considered intelligent and you appreciate someone who values your level of knowledge. Of [...]

Do you think you’re immune to phishing scams? Put your knowledge to the test with McAfee SiteAdvisor – Phishing Quiz. I managed to score 10 out of 10, but a couple of them made me hesitate to go with my gut instincts, so the average user is probably more susceptible to phishing scams than I [...]

Don’t you hate when you are reading a book and you come across a name that could have multiple pronunciations? You don’t want to settle on a particular way of saying the name because someone will come along and say, “No, I talked to the author and Kaan D’Kahn is pronounced KAHN Doo KOHN.” All [...]

I’ve been working on a new not found page (404) for the site I develop for. When I enabled logging of 404′s on our old page, we were flooded with reports of broken links. I decided that it would be easier to create an entirely new page than to salvage the old one. This new [...]

11: No fake, daily porn profiles (“I’m really shy but click on this link to see 500 naked pictures of me, because that’s totally believable!”) 10: Ability to actually be honest and add someone as “I don’t even know this person.”