Jul - 3rd
Best.Nigerian.Scam.EVER! (We gonna send you to jail if you don’t read this email, do you get me?)
Posted at 1:22 pm | Filed Under lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams, WTF
I have seen some pretty off the wall Nigerian Scam letters in the past, but this one has to be one of the most amazing I have ever received. Reading through this is an anthropological goldmine of insight into just how disconnected the scammers in that country are from how life really works here in [...]
Apr - 26th
Florida Just Outlawed Chocolate, Y’all
Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, WTF
Florida has definitely had it’s “doh!” moments, but this one is a doozy. It seems as if last month, March 23rd 2012, Florida HB 1175 went into effect, with the following intent: Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Jun - 1st
WordPress Hacking, Matt Mullenweg, And Some Screwed Up Priorities
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under bad research, blogthropology, lackofmeds, priorities, scams, Wordpress, WTF
I clean WordPress installations for people who have been hacked. I can help fix non-Wordpress sites as well, but since often times the way people find me is through the guide I wrote on how to fix WordPress after you’ve been hacked it turns out that’s what they need me to do for them a [...]
May - 14th
GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?
Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, Social Media, web design, Wordpress, WTF
Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]
May - 13th
Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision.
Posted at 10:04 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, Wordpress, WTF
One of the services I offer people is cleaning their WordPress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked WordPress cleaning guide. Therefore when something happens that increases the number of people getting hacked, such as when a new exploit is discovered, [...]
Mar - 5th
How NOT To Test If You Are Neo From The Matrix
Posted at 2:21 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, WTF
Yesterday there was a tragic incident involving a lone gunman attacking the U.S. Pentagon. According to reports, the man intended to carry out this attack with 2 handguns and “many magazines” of ammunition. It probably would have worked, too, except Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Jan - 22nd
Why The Renewed Interest In The Linkscape Scams And Deception..?
Posted at 5:15 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, WTF
Yesterday a friend of mine, Sebastian, wrote a post titled, “How do Majestic and LinkScape get their raw data?“. Basically it is a renewed rant about SEOmoz and their deceptions surrounding the Linkscape product that they launched back in October 2008, a little over 15 months ago. The controversy is based around the fact that [...]
Jun - 5th
Poopfree what? WTF?
Posted at 12:47 pm | Filed Under WTF
Yesterday, I wrote an email which included words like “cluck” and “chicken” in it. I then sent it off to some friends. When I got a reply back, and I opened it up in Gmail, I noticed the ad that Google served based on the content of my email. Here’s a screenshot of it. Really, [...]
