Can't say I'm shocked to get the news of Citibank's Vikram Pandit quitting (Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit resigns | Reuters.) Evidently Citibank's online banking has been an absolute disaster recently. There have been numerous outages, slow response, and unscheduled downtimes. Telephone customer service and tech support have also been horrendous during these outages. Customers are told — Continue reading »
101.9 FM, WRXP - Alternative Rock to Sports Talk. Why?
📆 October 10, 2012
I was so happy when 101.9 in New York finally switched from the news format to alternative rock a few months. I only listen to that station and NPR in my car. Now CBS has bought the station and will be simulcasting vapid sports talk with their AM station. Is there really a need for more boring — Continue reading »
Too Small to Succeed
📆 October 8, 2012
I used to think that the Internet was the great equalizer in the business world. A small guy with programming skills and a big drive sets up a new site and offers a novel service. The service goes viral and the small guy becomes a small company and builds and expands his way to success. — Continue reading »
GoDaddy is Sorry
📆 September 15, 2012
Got an email of apology from GoDaddy for the outage they had earlier this week. It sure was a real pain for many and no doubt many lost business over it. The hosting customers have received a one-month credit for their trouble. The rest, who have a domain or two with GoDaddy, only got the — Continue reading »
Wordpress Base64 Hack or PHP-CGI Hack? part III
📆 August 13, 2012
After being hit by the Wordpress base64 hack twice within a couple of weeks, it finally dawned me that the PHP CGI flaw was the culprit. The attack robots (a la Metasploit) use the knowledge of PGP CGI flaw together with the well-known scripts of popular products (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.) to penetrate sites and — Continue reading »
Apple Discrimination
📆 July 16, 2012
A few weeks ago my children dragged me into the local mall's Apple store, kicking and screaming where I bought them each a Macbook, a cheap Linux knock-off in a shiny skin. I am a devout Apple-hater and have been so since 1988 when I had to write a LISP program on a Macintosh desktop. — Continue reading »
Wordpress Base64 Hack or PHP-CGI Hack? part II
📆 July 5, 2012
To be factual about it, my site was hacked twice in exactly the same way over a period of couple of weeks. The first time around I noticed it when the feeds coming via Feedburner kept crashing the RSS readers because of a javascript malware block inserted right at the top of the feed. Turns out — Continue reading »
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