Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

I’ve been silent because I have no network access on campus yet. For some reason my dorm, and the one across the hall aren’t hooked up to the switch in the basement. Hopefully that will be resolved quickly, but I’m not holding my breath. I’ve been told 5-10 business days. Meaning [...]

Anyone still not reading David Hyatt’s Blog should start doing so ASAP. If you read this blog, and find anything relevant, you will most definitely find his relevant. He’s a browser guru with his hand in many things. A definite site to bookmark. A few comments on this whole Safari/Dashboard thing…
Personally, [...]

Doesn’t this creep you out? Akamai, an extremely robust network, designed for those who need intensive server-side power, taken out by a bot network.
14,000 servers in 1,100 networks in 65+ countries.
Just makes you wonder how vulnerable the internet really is. Yea, it’s a web, and not based on a central [...]

Domain-name registration surges according to a CNET news article.
How much is legitimate, and how many are just blog/email spammers treating domains as disposable?

It’s becoming more and more common these days…
ISO Codes
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a nice little letter regarding a proposal for Licensing the use of ISO codes. I have to personally agree with Berners-Lee on this one. It’s getting a little rediculus what people claim ownership of.
Can It trademark the word “internet”? Please?
Verisign
According to [...]

There’s a petition now available for the VeriSign Scam:
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Already got some hits. Sign and pass it on. NOW!

I’m a bit angry.
From now on any bad URL will resolve to VeriSign. That’s sick. They make money on every typo on the Internet.
My real beef is that they could be selling ads for competition. For example, type appke.com instead of Apple.com, and you could be seeing ads for MS [...]