X-Cop Fly Company

TUTORIAL: Recent YouTube Site Changes – Where Did The RSS Feeds Go?

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

A recent redesign to YouTube has hidden the ability to subscribe to channel RSS feeds. While the Web runs on RSS and there is nothing Google can do about it, many companies are trying to get you to sign up for an account by finding clever ways to hide their feed links. And as a [...]

Why I Did Not Discuss My Participation in the SOPA/PIPA Blackout

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Many of you who came to the X-Cop Fly Company blog (or to Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org) yesterday were redirected to the SOPA Strike page. (The blackout on the X-Cop Fly Company blog started a few hours late for EST people such as myself, since the plugin I used here had a bug, and I [...]

Funny dream the other night

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

I decided to auction a Taco Bell meal on eBay. People were bidding for this Taco Bell meal, and when they won, I shipped them just that – an actual taco. Soon the FDA came in, seized my stuff and fined me heavily. Then the talking heads got involved and turned it into a debate [...]

“Virtual Goods” a $1.6 billion/year industry

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]

Funny Wi-Fi SSID

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

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Lack of updates

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Sorry for the lack of updates. A few weeks ago, I won a lot of 20 tapes off eBay, and I’m about halfway done backing them up to my computer, holding the seller off on a rating. So far all work and great music. The tapes are various obscure and popular 80s pop-metal and pop-rock [...]

WikiLeaks a puppet for future massive Internet regulation?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that a case involving WikiLeaks would likely come before the court. She said that the WikiLeaks “incident,” in which the group posted thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents online, “and others are going to provoke legislation that’s already being discussed in Congress, and so some [...]

Haven’t done a blogthings in a while.

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

You Are Strawberry Pudding You are young at heart and very open minded. You love to be up on the latest trends. Trying new things excites you, and it’s likely that you have a creative streak. You like to push the envelope a little. Your friends know to expect the unexpected with you. You are [...]

I think I’m going to start…

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

…concentrating more on current events now. I’ll try not to whine as much as I did years ago on other blogs.

It’s been a long week…

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Haven’t had any new posts in almost a week. Here is what’s going on in my life: 1. Started going to Bingo at my local church two weeks ago. Last week I won 3 games. 2. Went to a Tea Party march yesterday. I was surprised how many people honked and cheered for us on [...]