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ExpressionEngine Ping Server List

Posted by jriordon on September 30th, 2009

Updated Ping List: October 21st 2009 This is a quick hack and a ping server list. The hack is to allow ping servers that require a port number that has more than 4 digits (i.e. icerocket.com requires port 10800). The list is mostly from this post, and has been edited due to a couple of [...]

Apple Customer service disaster

Posted by jriordon on September 25th, 2009

[Updated: 2009/09/25 1:45pm] Just to clarify before you start reading, I love Apple and their computers, and this is one of the first times I have experienced such poor service. I did call customer support, twice, and they apparently had no other solution for me. The following is what I sent to Apple, based on [...]

Code-breaker Turing should be pardoned

Posted by jriordon on September 5th, 2009

You most likely know who Alan Turing is, but did you know that wartime code-breaker Alan Turing was chemically castrated for admitting to his homosexuality and then mostly written out of history. Now, more than 26,000 people have signed a petition to the prime minister seeking a formal apology and posthumous pardon. Unfortunately the British [...]