It’s been over a month since I’ve done a Trail Log and I got some time for blog updates this weekend so I might aw well do one. The day job has kept me busy and pretty well burnt out by the time I get home so I haven’t dived in depth into anything for awhile. But recently I’ve started to take a look at things that have piqued my interest. Optimization I’ve been on a Google kick lately, first looking at Picasa Web (because of the Google Eye-Fi offer) [...] Read the rest »
Google DNS – Close But No Cigar
Among Google’s recent announcements was their introduction of Google Public DNS. I’ve been using OpenDNS and have no complaints. Well, actually I recently found I had defaulted back to using my ISP’s DNS (Comcast), probably during a router firmware upgrade. When I switched to back OpenDNS I also didn’t notice a different over Comcast. I wouldn’t have noticed unless I was in the router config for another reason and happened to see it. Comcast and OpenDNS both do typo hijacking and display a search page with ads rather than an [...] Read the rest »
