Work, play, and everything in-between.
MIT Technology Review: 2008 Young Innovators Under 35
Among them were
Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert; Twitter creator, Jack Dorsey; and Wii hacker, Johnny Lee.Interestingly, majority of the innovators are from Microsoft (including Lee). Digg’s Kevin Rose and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg were in last year’s list.
Okay, I know this is old news, but lately I’ve been getting a lot of these sorry pages that prompt me to input CAPTCHA words so I can continue with the search.
This would be understandable *if* only because I go through the Tor networks sometimes when I do searches, but this also happens at work. Weird, though, that I encounter the sorry page mostly when I go through the northern American segment of our network, but rarely when I’m on the Asia Pacific side.
(That is not to say that I search “anomalous queries”. We do have in-house Google searches {using the appliances}, but sometimes I need to go out on the internet to look for hints on some issues we encounter. {Okay, so searching for [Sara Brinsfield] from work — well it was only that one time — is a *bit* anomalous, but still…})
My PLDT DSL connection is having some routing issues lately. First off and most annoying is that I can’t browse this blog. My other domain works perfectly fine, though. Here’s a traceroute:
(I wonder why Window’s tracert shows more hops while my Linux box merely shows end-to-end connectivity. Windows tracert shows that the connection to iandexter.net breaks at 58.71.0.79, a PLDT intermediate router.)
Here’s my IP using the DSL connection:
So I used Tor. The Windows bundle includes Tor, Vidalia and Privoxy. I also used the Torbutton Firefox extension to easily toggle the Tor connection. The Tor connection IP:
Finally, I was able to browse Coredump. As expected, because of the multiple hops and encryption through the Tor relays, connection was slow as honey:
Interestingly, I couldn’t even browse Speedtest.net through the DSL connection so I can’t compare speeds. Sheesh.
I’ve recently decided to get a PLDT WeRoam prepaid account. Unfortunately, when I was about to purchase a wireless card unit in one of their resellers, I found out that they do not carry cards for the ExpressCard slot that my notebook (Dell Inspiron e1505) has.
That left me with the following options to look for:
Hay, the woes of going mobile.
Just because something is not on the Internet does not mean it is untrue.
- Adam Rogers, Wired Science
