Solving the complex in 140 characters or less…
What happened to the Dallas Stars Twitter? They removed me from their friend list, and changed everything!
If you’re asking yourself that question…it’s not what you think. Here’s what happened – it was all a mistake…
Back in the Fall of 2007, @winkydo had an idea to start broadcasting the scores during the Dallas Stars NHL hockey games. Read the rest of this entry »
Apparently they switched it back to the spyware method. I thought they learned their lesson. I guess not.
It looked like they replaced the download link that went to coupons.com with a pdf file. However, I think someone defaced the site and put that link on there because they were sending people to coupons.com.
Each coupon has a unique identifier though, and it’s the number under the Expiration Date and the Black/White squared barcode. You can’t pass around the same coupon to all your friends because those numbers are unique. That was my concern with the earlier update that they just linked to one PDF – it had the same barcode.
You no longer have to download the software with spyware in it. KFC apparently realized the backlash, and made it so you can simply download the coupon: http://www.unthinkfc.com/.
If you happened to download the software, please keep reading to find out how to remove it properly.
Yesterday, Oprah announced on her show that she was going to give everyone in America a Coupon for Free KFC Grilled Chicken. And all became well in the world…
Until a friend told me how his spyware detection program found some issues with the software they had you install.
See, to get the coupon, you have to install a program from Coupons.com that generates a hash based on your system configuration, and sends the coupon directly to your default printer, without any user intervention.
I read through the privacy policy, and it mentioned nothing about installing other programs, so I figured it would be safe. However, it doesn’t need to install other programs to do its thing.
Here’s what Spybot Search & Destroy says about it: Read the rest of this entry »
Well, I sent off my plugin code to Dan Zarrella, and got the Ping.fm developers API Key approved, and got Wordpress.org to approve the plugin, and have been running it on my blog since its original announcement – but have run into a possible issue…
My webhost says it is creating a lot of “sleeper” processes on the database server, and using up a lot of the processor resources. My account was even suspended until I fixed it.
SO – I am going to be rewriting the whole thing, pretty much from scratch now, and it will only be loosely based on Dan’s version… Read the rest of this entry »
I’m sure you’ve been at work, thinking “Crap, I don’t want to go home and do this, because I don’t have the software there.” Or maybe you do have the software, but you don’t have some certain set of plugins (i.e. Photoshop Brushes for a graphic designer), and you need a way to get those things synchronized in both places at once. ***As such, this experiment implies that I will NOT be using this program in two locations simultaneously.*** (That’s not to say that it can’t be done – but it is to say that it will require more human intervention to resolve the file version conflicts than I wish to do.)
Well, I have an answer – and this example will use the Digsby Instant Messenger client. (I’ll get technical after the story below.) Here’s a little background… Read the rest of this entry »
