Chucks Blog

Lately I have been brainstorming some interesting projects that I could blog about. Mostly these have to do with using a computer to control, automate, or just record of some sort of task. Pretty near all of them have some practical application to me, so I’ve decided to start listing them on this blog. I [...]

This month marks a major success for this blog. Previously it didn’t receive a significant number of referred hits per month. The only real hits it received were from Google and Yahoo, but this month that has completely changed.
The number of direct links to this blog has increased around five times more than the previous [...]

According to this analysis, Bing users are 50% more likely to click on advertisements. That’s cool and all, but how significant are these numbers?
Currently my search engine traffic is split as follows this month (note: numbers are rounded to the nearest multiple of five)

Google – 80%
Yahoo – 5%
Bing – 5%
AOL <5%
Ask Jeeves <5%
All others use [...]

After just posting about a command line solution to using Tor I thought it’d be a good idea to quickly mention a few security concerns about the network.
Tor is designed to make your traffic somewhat anonymous, and does not make you more secure by using it. If you use tor with encrypted protocols and avoid [...]