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I Dislike Like Gates So Much…

October 6th, 2011 No Comments

I dislike a “like gate” so much, I’ve conditioned myself to do battle against them. Here’s what I do: Like the page. Go to my profile, remove the announcement that “Darryl Likes [insert like-gate here]“ Do what I need to on the page. Unlike the page. What is a “Like-Gate”? A like-gate is effectively a [...]

Posted in random poop, socially inept | Tags: facebook, like-gate, likegate, metrics, rant, social

Facebook Timeline isn’t “New” #f8

September 22nd, 2011 No Comments

This timeline feature isn’t the first timeline that Facebook will have attempted to use. Once upon a time, at least 4 years ago, when you joined Facebook and added friends it always asked “How do you know this person?” and “When did you meet?” Those questions as well as many other little things within Facebook [...]

Posted in random poop, socially inept | Tags: backtrack, dev, f8, facebook, fb, history, rant, timeline

You Want Us To Be Secure…

August 4th, 2011 No Comments

But you make it so complicated. From a technical standpoint, I understand how simple it is to create certificates for SSL/TLS and put them into configs and use ‘em. From a user standpoint, I can not understand the who/what/when/where/why as to the whole security industry and being so damn complicated. So many SSL providers out [...]

Posted in linux, random poop, security | Tags: annoying, blog, rant, security, ssl, whatever

Social Plugins and the 80/20.

May 23rd, 2010 2 Comments

I apologize for this off-topic rant, but it’s been sitting on my mind for a little while… The best part of using all these social plugins on a site as small as mine is how pathetic it makes the site look. I try not to pollute everything with ‘like this’, ‘share that’, ‘spam your friends!’ [...]

Posted in socially inept | Tags: apps, dirty, facebook, opengraph, pointless, rant, social, spam

Facebook Changed – Now I Look Bad

April 14th, 2010 No Comments

This morning I was checking the status of a couple of my Facebook apps when I noticed something strange. My beloved Hangman! is asking me for my email address. But.. but.. I never told it to. Why is it asking me? I didn’t set the flags that I’m supposed to set. I double checked – [...]

Posted in random poop | Tags: bugs, facebook, privacy, rant