Almost Exciting!

GoDaddy will apparently give your domain name away if your WhoIS info is not up-to-date. They only try to contact you by your email address and then if you do not respond after so many days, they make it available.

“Security Watch: Check Your E-Mail and Save Your Domain“

… according to a PC World article. I’m excited to see “Photo Matt” (Developer, WordPress) on the list. Check it out.

Just in case anyone with a WordPress blog stops by, you need to know that version 2.1.1 was officially declared Dangerous by WordPress developers. Head over to the official WordPress site for details, and a clean download to upgrade to a safe version.

You should do this right away if you’re running on version 2.1.1.

Just doing my part to help.

In case you haven’t heard: This Saturday, March 3rd, we’ll be able to see our first total lunar eclipse in three years. Wikipedia has some interesting information, as usual.

Was this a waste of space? Where’s my usual weird-factor?

SearchMash.com is Google. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

Apparently this is old news - but I knew nothing about it, so I thought I would share. In fact, I’ve never heard of “searchmash”. If you read what I read, you would have seen the following quotes:

“SearchMash is an experimental search site operated by Google. The goal of SearchMash is to test innovative user interfaces in order to continually improve the overall search experience for our users.”

“The site does not include Google branding to help us gather more objective data about user response to new interfaces.”

I’m sure a quick query on Google (imagine that) would reveal several conversations of what other experiments Google is doing without us knowing… but really: I wonder what else they have out there in the wild, somewhere on the internet, posing as cool little “mashups”, web applications, and the like.

PS:
SearchMash.com is actually kinda cool. I definitely like the “infinite scroll” that you get when clicking for “more results”. I like it a lot.

Saw this on Engadget. Some commenters on Digg thought that the movie corp’s would just change the key now that it’s in the open. They won’t. I have to give them credit to be smarter than that - because now that someone knows where the key is, even if it changes, it would only take the smallest of programs to scan a disc and discover it.

No, they’ll definitely move it. And change it. And change the way it works.

But then… the cycle will begin again.

* NOTE: I can honestly say I’ve never copied (even legitimately) an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc, or even a regular ol’ DVD [yet]. I do not support Piracy, however I also do not support DRM - I do not believe a person should have to pay $29 for a movie that they have already purchased for $19, simply for the ability to watch it in a much smaller, lower quality format (and other examples along those lines).

aamof it was just a matter of time b4 it would become a problem. aisi , it is amazing that it was not a bigger problem until now. wdyt that kids are not going to find the easy way out. Then again, I guess inmp.  

Check out the article.

 *I am not an IM genius.  

Since it is so hard to provide coverage all over India and electricity is even hard to get, Mobile Network companies are looking at powering cell towers with biodiesel made primarily from Jatropha trees.

“While still in the testing stages, GSMA partners Idea Cellular and Ericsson hope to have functioning bio-powered stations by mid-2007. “

I think Adam says it quite well in his note about Google “Warning” ISPs About Online Video, when he says:

“Aw, shucks, how sweet of you to try to weasel your way into the service provider industry under the guise of a warning.”

However, I just (highly) doubt that Google is only trying to get “into the… industry”. I use Google a lot, but when one sits and thinks about the possibilities it can get a little creepy some times.

Someone found a finger in his chocolate “bar”. Mmm!