Major web sites like Yahoo.com and Boston.com are infecting thousands, if not hundred thousands of computers with trojans, back doors, and other viruses, through some of their ad service providers. When will the people in charge of these web sites wake up and start screening the ads that they are serving?   For the 2nd [...]

Due to a sudden spike in traffic on my blog, I spent more time than usual with Web Analytics tools lately. There is quite  a discrepancy between the numbers that Awstats reports and what Google Analytics and Woopra think. Awstats is a tool that most low-cost hosting providers include in their service offering. This post is meant [...]

I host this blog and a few other personal sites at WebHostingBuzz (WHB), all on Linux. I host the site for the Austrian-American club at Godaddy.com (ASP). Unfortunately, I host the mailing list for the Austrian-American club at WHB as well, requiring frequent emails sent from one domain to the other. We are paying Godaddy for [...]

I am pretty sure I caught the Mebroot root kit last night, or some variant, and potentially some other things, too. I was working when all of a sudden the machine rebooted, without a blue screen. It did an orderly shut-down and reboot (XP Pro SP III). I did not allow XP to boot back [...]

Are you looking for new information about Lisa Lanett and JFK’s love child, Tony Bohler? In following up on the Lisa Lanett story about her alleged love child with John F. Kennedy, I researched the history of the Monterey Lodge Motel in Phoenix and found several interesting documents. The documents prove that Lisa’s mother, Charlotte von [...]

Cdonner.com is giving away free fortune cookies! In order to include a fortune cookie in your blog, paste the following script into your page content as HTML source: <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript” src=”http://cdonner.kicks-ass.net:8080/FortuneCookie/CookieJS.aspx”></script> You can customize the look by adding and editing these two styles to your template’s CSS stylesheet: div.fortunecookie { font-family:Trebuchet MS; font-size:large; } div.acknowledgement [...]

Those looking for ways to render application data and content into Microsoft Office documents used to have a limited number of options. There once was something called Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft ended support in 2007) or, more recently, Visual Studio Tools for Applications (see Wikipedia). OLE Automation has been around since the early days of [...]

On March 20, the Austrian newspaper Kurier reported a story that is rather amazing. I actually double-checked the calendar – just to make sure that it was not April 1st yet (it turned out it was not). The story recounts a series of interviews with Austrian-born Lisa Lanett, who claims that John F. “Jack” Kennedy is [...]

I learned about SilverStripe through an article in the German C’t magazine. The way it can be extended seems to be cleaner and better servicable than it’s competitors. The website of the 2008 Demcocratic Convention was built with SilverStripe, which should address concerns about scalability. I decided to try it out, since our clients at [...]

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