Gordaen’s Blog

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. [...]

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.”

Like anyone who uses computers, I have to deal with a ridiculous amount of spam. My email is double-filtered with Spam Assassin and Gmail, so very little email spam actually makes it to my inbox anymore. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with comment spam on my blog and websites. I decided [...]

Everyone knows that weather predictions are frequently inaccurate, so I decided to do a little investigating last month. I tried to guess what the weather would be like over the next 8 days, then I took screenshots of the webpages from five major weather sites (AccuWeather, NOAA, Weather.com, Weather Bug, and Weather Underground) and [...]

The Internet has changed quite a bit in the last 10-15 years. Nowadays, a computer without Internet access is practically useless. My cellphone has more RAM and a faster Internet connection than the computer I used 13 years ago, but I use my cellphone less than that computer. Computers themselves have gone [...]