I am publishing this post on the anniversary of my business being summarily dispatched.This is an ugly story about the WORST credit card processor in the universe and what they did to me. I waited to publish this until I got my seized assets back and then even longer just in case I wanted to . . . → Read More: Card Services International: SUCKFEST extraordinaire
 11 comments - (Comments are closed)  Geek Stuff  abandonment, adversity, B2B, BCP, bitch, blows dog, burn in hell, Business Continuity plan, Card Services International, chargebacks, client relations, clients, clusterfuck, contingencies, crash and burn, credit card, CSI, debacle, depression, destroy a business, devastating, emotional health, ex-clients, fester, fiasco, FirstData, frozen account, hacked, hell, horror story, isolation, Linkpoint, loan, online business, partner, Paypal, piss-ant, piss-rat, pull the plug, risk, seized assets, shared risk, single point of failure, skin in the game, suckfest, thrashing, WOMD THIS ARTICLE IS NOT SERIOUS DORKAGE. ANYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT. You’re probably here because you suspect someone (parent, spouse, sibling, roomate, etc.) is reading your email. That’s the problem. Before I describe the booby-trap I will insert this caveat: Problems like this are best avoided from the get-go. Did you ever . . . → Read More: Booby Trap your Email: catch common snoops 28 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security bait, booby trap, can't resist, catch a spy, easy, email attachment, email snoop, hack, juicy, juicy pictures, juicy subject line, lightweight geekery, onestat.com, open attachment, quick, roommate, sex kitten, sexy, sexy hotmail address, significant other, slutty, snoop, spy, tempting, tracking code, trap, trap a snoop, tripwire, wise living, XXX Who is least likely to recognize a phish when he sees one? A noob or a luddite right? As more and more people get online, more and more people are getting savvy about phish scams. The only people still likely to be highly vulnerable are those people who still don’t have internet woven into their . . . → Read More: New offline phish technique targets noobs & luddites 15 comments - (Comments are closed) Hacking and Security Buick, Cadillac, cars, compel, fake parking ticket, infraction, luddite, malware, noobs, offline, Oldsmobile, parking ticket phish, phish, scam, victims, vulnerable, word of mouth Beaver Bar Camp 2009 was held at Kelley Engineering Center on Saturday April 4. Didn’t get quite the sponsorship of last year’s event, which I attributed to the economic meltdown. Still, there was food and T-shirts and excellent space to host the ad-hoc presentations that happen at Bar Camps. . . . → Read More: Bar Camp 2009 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff barcamp, Calagator, Corvallis, crack wireless, Eugene, geek girls, IT-Pros Group, Verso, wazzuplocal.com, WEP, WPA When Google talks, I at least pay attention. Whether you like them or not, no one can deny that Google has a great deal of KLOUT on the interwebz. This Google Friend Connect thing is the latest scuttlebutt. Of course I have to try it, even though I’m not insanely hopeful that it’s going to . . . → Read More: Testing Google Friend Connect 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff compatibility, Google Friend Connect, Google stuff, home-rolled, identity, interconnect, javascript, member, social, tinker, widget, Wordpress, Wordpress MU In case you hadn’t heard, our local newspaper publishers (Gazette-Times/Democrat Herald owned by Lee Enterprises) have taken a giant step future-ward with the launch of the new mid-valley voice social network. If you are not local, I would hazard a guess that other historically print based publishers are doing a similar thing to try to . . . → Read More: No worries: this post will NOT suck you into a vortex 13 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff auto-blog, blog sourcing, community, community social network, Democrat Herald, driving traffic, feed, funnel, Gazette Times, go to hell, Lee Enterprises, local, meta, Mid-Valley Voice, no maintenance, recursive, self-referential, source, suck, traffic funnel, vortex, widget, yourminis For the next 8 days this dork will be taking a hiatus from blogging. I will answer your comments when the hiatus is over. Your faithful dork recently had to be hospitalized for surgery. Everything went well and full recovery is expected, but I did get a midline incision that incapacitated my core until it heals. You use your core for EVERYTHING, so that nasty little side effect could not clear up too soon! While convalescing I . . . → Read More: Open Source Tux Geek Penguin Mittens 27 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Multimedia adapt, flibbertigibbetbunny, geek, geek crafts, geek gift, geek mittens, geeky mittens, handknit, handmade, handwear, knit, knitting, knitting pattern, linux, mittens, opensource, penguin, penguin mittens, three colors, Tux, tux mittens, tux the penguin Warning: HARD CORE DORKAGE!!!! I hope beyond all the hope that I have obtained the book that will drag me over the learning curve for Zend Framework for real. The book I am referring to, Zend Framework In Action by Allen, Lo & Brown, was meant to come out in September, but it finally . . . → Read More: Back at the Zend Framework… finally! 21 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security Cal Evans, forum, Framework, guru, i18n, legacy code, Manning, O'Reilly books, PDF, PHP Architect, phpunit, Rob Allen, RTFM, tribal knowledge, web application, Zend Framework |