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Vitalpixel

November 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Web News

I had pr 4 for like 10 days and then I lost it.  Not sure exactly what happened, I think that using vitalpixel as a redirect domain to blogpantsu was increasing the pr of both of the sites.  Since soon after I stopped redirecting vitalpixel to blogpantsu they both lost to notches of pr.  Anyways, I’m going to try using the redirect once again but with another site or two of mine.

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North Korea and Net Neutrality

June 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Web News, World, rants

Im sure that many people would consider the new freedom of ‘internet’ issue at hand, to be very similar to North Korea, and the Berlin Wall.  North Korea is a place where people are trapped inside, and are to be shot if they are caught trying to leave.  Which I would correlate with *going to the site you really want to be at*.  Where as, people on the outside are able to freely come into North Korea.  This is what I would consider, the internet providers way of getting people to go where they want.

North KoreaCheck out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea for more information on North Korea.  I watched a video on it a couple of months ago and it’s really quite interesting what goes on there.  The problem is, it’s not the kind of interesting that I’d like to see in my country.  But, this sort of thing could start to affect the way we browse the internet.

Net neutrality is important for anyone who enjoys browsing the internet, watching videos, and playing online games.  The fact that internet providers are now trying to start charging people based on how much files they transfer, is ridiculous.  Eventually it is believed that internet providers will start to charge money for the ability to go on specific websites.

This would mean, if the internet provider cut a deal with Yahoo, that they wouldn’t allow you to access google.  Or if they did allow you to access google, it would take an extremely long load.  The only reason for the internet providers to do this is because they want more money.  It seems to me like they’re making plenty of money the way it is.

I would consider this situation to be just like that of the Berlin Wall.  When there are things inside of the walls that the people outside the walls can’t get.  The inside being democratic/capitalist, and the outside of the walls being a communist environment.  Where people or ‘forced’ to share and use things they don’t particularly want to.  In other words, freedom lies inside of the walls, and the walls are heavily guarded with gunman ordered to shoot you on site.

Internet providers seem to be planning somewhat of the same thing.  Installing huge firewalls, and blocks so that you can’t access the sites you really want to.  While in doing this, getting you to go to other sites that ‘they’ want you to go to.  Of course you’re not going to get shot if you ‘try’ to get into the sites you don’t have access to any more, but they’ll make it pretty damn inconvenient.

I’m hoping, that if the internet providers ever grouped together and decided to do something like this.  Someone would come out and make a new internet provider that supported internet neutrality.  I know, that if no other internet providers formed, than I would try to start one.  I’m absolutely desparate for freedom on the internet.

With all of the new rules and internet laws being put into place though, this doesn’t seem like to far fetched of an idea.  I read that providers like Verizon, and Time Warner Cable are leaning towards making the switch by 2012.  I’m not sure what kind of boycotts and protests are already being planned for this, but I’d probably only be able to hold out a little while without my precious internet.

If you want to help do something to stop internet providers from breaking the rules of net neutrality, then you can google ’save the internet’, and/or ‘net neutrality’.  Good look saving the internet, and enjoy it while you still have it…

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The Kennedy’s Wait, what?

May 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Web News, Worthless, comic tips

A day or two ago, digg was swarmed by articles about Hillary making a reference to the Kennedy assasination.  Many people read into her statements a bit to much, and thought that she was suggesting, Obama could be assasinated.  Of course the idea isn’t too far fetched, and yes it is because he’s black.  Some people just aren’t ready to accept this, but Hillary probably doesn’t mind having that slight advantage.

Personally, I don’t see Hillary’s comment as a big deal at all.  So she made a reference to the Kennedy election?  Who gives a dump, not me… but since everyone else does, it matter quite a bit.  For future presidential candidate reference, don’t mention the name of a president who was assassinated during the elections.

Anyways, as most of you know, Obama is winning on the democratic side at the moment.

And, here’s my little comic strip on the event, Digg up! :D

what the hell is that all about

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Hiding the goods. In a happy meal?

May 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Web News

Despite this being a webmaster blog, I found this too funny to pass up, and just not post about… so read up folks :)
(haha, I’m not even sure if it’s true, but I read it somewhere…)

“Daddy, I got two toys in my happy meal!”

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An Illinois Macdonald’s employee hid his pot stash in a happy meal and then accidentally gave the happy meal out to a little kid. So, he was trying to hide his stash at work, and failed miserably… of course being charged with having marijuana, but I don’t think he got in trouble for giving it out to the kid.

“Police admit that many in the town find the incident… funny.”
Police Chief: “I’d be rather surprised if at any time in the rest of my career I see something like this happen again.”

Haha, this kid is a complete idiot! :) agreed?

Yahoo Has Reached Pr10

May 15th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Web News

Not that it really matters to any of us little guys, but Yahoo.com has finally reached that pr10 status all the pr crazy webmasters strive for. Of course yahoo doesn’t care at all that they’ve reached pr10 on google’s little pagerank system, they could easily make their own pagerank system and rank themselves 10 from the start. Yahoo has already always been number one in the alexa ranks, and that’s what some people think really matters. Seriously though, I think it’s a great achievement for any website to make. Be the website Microsoft, yahoo, or mine achieving page rank 10 is “Great Success” (Borat). I mean, how many websites have pr 10, three?

On that note, here is a list of all the pr 10 webpages I could find;

  1. Yahoo (”oh yea!” If you’d forgotten)
  2. Google Search (who’d a’ guessed?
  3. World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org)
  4. Adobe (Macromedia)
  5. Energy.gov
  6. Keio University
  7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa)
  8. w3 css validator (wow, one of the only sites with a subpage ranked pr10 is w3.org)
  9. The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (Ercim)
  10. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  11. National Science Foundation
  12. Microsoft
  13. whitehouse.gov
  14. real.com

Oh, it’s just to bad… Here’s some of the site’s that almost made it in, and actually were in for a while;

  • IBM
  • Cisco
  • Statcounter (2nd largest amount of backlinks next to google)
  • Apple

Oh, sorry guys… I guess that’s just the way google works it.
I don’t know how this could help you guys, but if it quenches your curiosity buds, then I’m glad I posted it. Good luck with your webmaster’ing.

by,

the webjedis