WordPress powers 41.5% of all websites, and it represents nearly 60% of all content management systems. This is absolutely massive capitalization at the scale of the global Internet. The momentum of a multi-decades old ecosystem alone is incredible: the plugins, themes, experienced administrators, shared hosts, Internet guides, talks, and generally the incredible social economics of…
Today was brutally hot—nearly 100% relative humidity at over 96° F with local heat island effect. We spent much of the day in stop-and-go driving, the AC failing to keep up even on its highest settings, visiting bargain shopping centers in a marginally-suburban, high density, planned community not far from home. My wife was very…
Google TV is exactly the kind of myopically-designed device you want to use if you just love the idea of digital voyeurism. I’m not just talking about Google’s infamously horrific privacy practices such as famously sharing user location data even when disabled, geofence-based warrants allowing dragnet approaches to law enforcement, and its claims that you…
I’ve run WordPress sites before at small scales, but usually this was through a hosting provider or a small experimental setup. This particular server runs on a budget VPS. After taking time to carefully craft a functional Privacy Policy and Terms of Service (which you should totally read carefully by the way!), I began to…