Since I haven’t had much to post about as of late, I’ll provide you with an update of what I’ve been doing lately:

UPE Programming Competition

From 2-5:30 PM today I participated in the UPE Programming Competition sponsored by Morgan Stanley and hosted by the Rensselaer Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. The competition [...]

I noticed that on some visits, Digg includes a JavaScript file hosted by Quantcast, which describes itself itself as “a new media measurement service that enables advertisers to view audience reports for millions of sites and services to build their brands with confidence.”

In other words, they track your usage of a site and try to [...]

Doug Mehus: You’re always pointing out security holes for various other companies and their websites - and quite rightly so. Nonetheless, in a completely humourous fashion with tongue firmly in cheek, I was able to register the Gmail account “rgovostesDELETE@gmail.com”. See any problem with this?  :-P

It took me about a tenth of a [...]

Akismet caught a trackback from a spam blog hosted at kouragethekowardlydog.adoption23.info. The trackback was an excerpt of one of my previous posts, prefaced with “Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today. Here’s a quick excerpt:”

An Unexpected Party

The Lyceum blog that existed there (and at dozens of other [...]