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The 2008 to 2012 Tesla Roadster was one of the first “mainstream” electric cars sold. The car itself was based on a Toyota-powered Lotus Elise sports car. The cars were built by Lotus in Britain without the engine and transmission and then shipped to California, where they were mated with an electric motor, a control unit, and thousands of little batteries. They were not cheap, as they started at $109,000. And even with a gasoline engine, the tiny car was not practical.
These are my impressions of driving my friend’s 35,000-mile Tesla Roadster for a week: Continue reading
What’s your area code? Does it have a 1 or a 0 in the middle? That’s a proper area code. Due to a quirk in the brilliantly elegant Bell System switching design, all area codes had 1s or 0s in the center. That way, the system knew whether you were dialing an area code or a local exchange, which used to have beautiful names like WAverly-6 or LIncoln-2, back before you had to dial a bajillion digits to call your neighbor down the street.
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I was an Adblock Plus user for as long as I can remember. But Adblock comes at a price, the sites that provide content can’t do it for free.
It’s true that Adblock made the web a much simpler place with far less clutter, no shouting flashing banners and annoying giant yellow bouncing things. For a long time I thought I was an ethical ad blocker because I disabled on sites that I frequented and liked, but otherwise I kept the default setting as block all ads for all other sites. But I was still visiting those other sites when I would Google something and land somewhere. Some of those sites provided me with valuable information, but I wasn’t doing my part to help them stay in existence. Continue reading
The RealDoll is a popular inanimate life companion that has proven to be wildly successful but also quite expensive. But can you buy them used? Here I’ll help you understand everything you need to know about aftermarket Real Dolls. Continue reading
For those of you living under a rock for the last 72 hours or so, you may be unaware that the Food Network has fired Paula Deen for admitting during a deposition to making racist and anti-Semetic jokes, using the N-word, and planning an Antebellum Southern Plantation-style wedding.
Paula Deen has many fans, and they have taken to Food Network’s Facebook page to protest Paula’s firing. Their comments are hilariously awful. These are their stories. Continue reading
For those of you that follow MMORPGs, you’ve probably noticed that the big trend among new games is the free-to-play model. For those of you that have actually played some of these games, you’ve probably noticed that free-to-play either becomes pay-to-play or pay-to-win pretty quickly. Although many developers are gamers themselves, they are also attempting to create a profitable product, and when those two instincts collide the business side inevitably wins. This creates friction with their user bases, and if left unresolved inevitably leads to the game failing.
I recently started playing Marvel Heroes, an MMO based in the Marvel universe, which uses a League of Legends-style Heroes system. The launch has not exactly been smooth, to say the least. So, speaking as a both a gamer, with insider knowledge of gamer psychology, as well as someone with a business background, I’m hoping to bridge the gap and explain how it’s possible to create a Free-To-Play game that convinces the gamer to spend money and make the game profitable. Continue reading
Recently we had an odd thing happen, all inbound WordPress logins appeared to be coming from the same IP address. Because a large percentage of our WordPress login attempts are from botnet zombies this caused the site security system to mark legitimate login attempts as bad.
Having installed the CloudFlare WordPress plugin was supposed to feed in the true IP address of each visitor but that seems to only work for comments and not for everything else. Here is one line of code that will get the original IP address of visitors coming through CloudFlare. Continue reading
The Apache httpd.conf file can be overwhelming and complex, but if you make one simple change it can have a big impact. By default the “keepalive” feature is turned off. Turning that on will help people loading your web pages get them faster and cause less burden on your server. Here is how to change keepalive. Continue reading
There are lots of reasons why having web pages load faster is something to work toward but how to get the speed and what to focus on can be hard to figure out. Here are some easy tips to increase speed and cut down page load times. Continue reading