I had some issues with Firefox extensions before, but today I saw the finalists of the Extend Firefox Contest and was surprised and pleased to see that I am using two out of the three winning extensions – Reveal and WebDeveloper – myself. Still I experience some conflicts and the centralized bookmark handling doesn’t work … [Read more…]
What a strange coincidence. Matt Cutts gives a quick overview of the features of the new Google toolbar and I had some concerns about the privacy issues of the server side bookmarks. As I reported before, I use a Firefox extension to synchronize bookmarks among different PC’s, but I have some troubles with it. To … [Read more…]
A few days ago ther ewas a great buzz that GMail finally(!) has a “delete button”. I too was among those who missed it from the beginning on, but I got used to select the delete-function from the menu. Still, a button would have been nice. OK, now there is one – but, wait a … [Read more…]
Being an AdWords advertiser for my company, I received a Seasons Greetings card from Google. Given the amount we spend each month (which I am not going to disclose in case someone from our competition stumbles accross this blog), it seems a little bit odd, especially since other people on webmaster and PPC forums report … [Read more…]
All around watercoolers there’s one topic today: the Google PC! Already two days ago the LAtimes broke the story, which the Inquirer picked up today, as well as numerous sites worldwide. Obviously the idea itself does not seem to be surprising – a lot of readers overlooked the small line in the LAtimes article: Here … [Read more…]
I like Firefox. I really do. One of its main advantages is the extensibility via plugins. For almost any task I ever wanted, there is an extension for Firefox. OK sometimes it’s a bit over the top to have 4 or more toolbars, but – hey – you can even tweak them and add or … [Read more…]
Mambo worm via Outpost24.com Linux/Elxbot is a backdoor for the Mambo vulnerability. It will search on Google for vulnerable targets. Once it infects a computer it will connect to a predetermined IRC server where the attackers will wait and have the possibility to gain access to the infected computer. I know why I am sticking … [Read more…]
So I got an Orkut invite. Thanks Mark! Hope you do not get spammed with requests for them. Well, hope I do not get spammed with requests 🙂 However the system has a bad hair day today – but they get 100 points for originality in their error messages. Give me a couple of days, … [Read more…]
So, this guy samy hacked MySpace.com with a rather simple Ajax script, wasn’t aware of the exponential rate at which his worm grew, and pulled the plug. It’s a rather funny story to read, and the interview he gave to Google Blogoscoped is pretty funny too. What no-one pointed out so far is how crappy … [Read more…]
16 years ago today, I left my first trace on the face of the internet. I was a posting to the Usenet newsgroup sci.crypt, and I was posting in German. Translated, the post reads: I coded a simple encryption algorithm in Turbo-Pascal, whose sole purpose is to secure a few lines of text against the … [Read more…]