Bitcoin history: US dollar parity on 9 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011 by Mike Gogulskieconomics, technology | 2 Comments »
Today is a day of awesome. Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer, pseudonymous cryptocurrency, has reached market parity with the US dollar for the first time. Exchange rate graph from the largest Bitcoin exchanger, Mt Gox (click to enlarge): [caption id="attachment_4045" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Parity party! ...
Technological civilization is awesome
Thursday, 13 January 2011 by Mike Gogulskitechnology | 3 Comments »
From TED: It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as ...
Safe Skies
Sunday, 14 November 2010 by Mike Gogulskiart, mind control, technology | 10 Comments »
“Mommy, how high does the airplane go?” “Oh, on a flight like this maybe up to thirty-three thousand feet,” I tell Casey. Casey rolls her My Little Pony suitcase along behind her. “How high is that?” “Well, that’s about six miles.” “How much is ...
Dear Operation Payback: Quit DDOSing websites
Wednesday, 3 November 2010 by Mike Gogulskiactivism, heroism, technology, war | No Comments »
Dear Operation Payback, Anonymous and righteous 4chan /b/tards: [caption id="attachment_3916" align="alignright" width="263" caption="Operation: Payb"][/caption] You have attracted plenty of attention with your DDOS attacks against the MPAA, IFPI, ACS:Law, Davenport Lyons, the US Copyright Office, and so on. Downing those sites is ...
Disable Registration Email WordPress plugin
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 by Mike Gogulskitechnology | 9 Comments »
The Disable Registration Email WordPress plugin turns off the automatic "New user registration on your blog" email messages to the admin email address. Useful for large sites. Download from WordPress.org Usage Nothing to configure. Simply activate and the emails stop coming! Changelog 0.9.0 Initial release Installation Download ...
Citation Manager for WordPress plugin
Sunday, 11 July 2010 by Mike Gogulskitechnology | 7 Comments »
Citation Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to track and display external citations to WordPress content. While trackbacks and pingbacks are fine for displaying references from other websites which support them, what do you do when, say, a print ...
Freedom Blogs will mirror censored websites
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 by Mike Gogulskiactivism, technology | 1 Comment »
I am pleased to announce, after reading Global Voices Advocacy's Guide: Mirroring a Censored WordPress Blog, that I am willing to mirror blogs or other websites at Freedom Blogs which: are worthy, in my view, of being defended against censorship; don't cause ...
Server farm daydreams via Amazon.com
Sunday, 23 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskidiary, technology | 8 Comments »
As my regular readers know, my translation business has really been on the rocks lately. This isn't all bad. Being dead broke serves as a lot of motivation to look around for other things to do. Way back in 1994 ...
