Today I discovered #3, Pandora Edition

Apparently, pandora doesn't do too well at album covers. I wasn't aware that kedollarsign-HA was an actress on the icarly tv show, so cool!

Academia further mystified #4

My class where I had an insane amount of homework, and a near impossible takehome exam, which I know for a fact I did less than 50% of the homework and had under 80% on the exam, both got perfect scores, just like everyone else in the class. Its 1/3rd my grade.

Anti botnet wordpress security practices

So, you got hit by the wordpress attack yesterday. I did, you did. We all did.

Freaked out yet? It was a huge botnet trying to crack your password

Anyone who doesn't know, a botnet is a large number (usually over 100,000) of computers all infected by some form of an attack, that can be remote controlled. The botnet yesterday was around 100,000.

Things you can do to protect yourself against it.

Academia Further Mystified #3

You may have noticed I haven't blogged as much as my usual OMG SO MANY POSTS amount this week.

I've been overwhelmed with school, along with my job. It's not that school is hard (well it is, but that's not the issue). It's that my teachers really are bad with scheduling.

New shop!

So, you may have been wondering why there is a shop button on my site now. It links to http://shop.techderp.net

Why Twitter et al. will continue to fall to Google+

I know this post is not being posted to Twitter, but I couldn't fit it in Twitter's character limits.
STRIIIIKE ONE!

Now that thats out of the way, here is my official reasoning on why Google+  is the master race of all social networks and all that related blasphemy.

Warning labels on a humidifier

Sometimes the warning labels on things necessary horrify me. Do not pour any water into outlet. Lol what? Do we live in a society where someone thinks this is a good idea? This concept flat out terrifies me. Please make it stop waaaah. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Incase you're wondering, I got a new vicks 1 gallon pretty snazzy germ killing humidifier

It makes an interesting whirling noise.

Css Errors

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="480"] From Family Guy[/caption]

These are my thoughts on CSS.
For those who don't know, CSS on Wikipedia, or W3 Schools

Gun deaths caused by tangerines

I often argue with people on the internet (*gasp*, who would have guessed)

For example, lets look at the gun death statistical evidence, in many states, gun violence increases with gun ownership, while in other states, gun violence decreases with gun ownership.

Gender Dyscodia: Interactions of gender in the tech field

It's interesting to document the differences of how women and men are treated in the programming society. Guys are "just another programmer", while women are "bleeding edge" (bad pun, I know).

A guy asks for help, and it's like "uhh, you did something wrong with (blarg), should should fix it"

A person who lacks a y chromosome asks for help. "Oh, let me help you! Uh, hi, uhm, you're cute (atleast your screen name is cute), uhm, your code needs a new tri flux capacitor, let me code you a library for one, and change the compiler to accept time travel."

Ocarinas

Songbird Ocarina is a fantastic ocarina company

So, you've played Zelda Ocarina Of Time. You've memorized every note on every song by heart.

Heck, you've played every Zelda game ever made, and were annoyed when the instrument used to be called "Flute"

Did you know, it's a real instrument? And not just one for children!

Disney Princess Derps

This falls completely under the derp category. Seriously, hardcore.

I'm really sick of disney princessification btw. You know mulan? TOTALLY NOT A PRINCESS

Things out of your control #1

I once had a customer tell me "fuck off" because I couldn't fix the app on his ipad.

Server from a third party service had a mobile only outage, and who gets the blame? Of course, some random IT person who has nothing to do with it.

When things are out of your control, sometimes you still feel at blame, even though you didn't do anything wrong at all.

Want to know what I think about that? Hi! I'm a server! Who are you?