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The stealthy operations of an Indianapolis based political web design firm ran by a few IU students, and their D.C. connections.

Internet genius. Content warning.

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We’ve added links to 32 Tea Party web sites. They can be found on the right sidebar, about half way down under “Indiana Tea Party Web Sites,” and also at the top of the our site.

If we missed you, let us know and we will add your site.

We’d suggest visiting them we you have time.

Some people will get this, others won’t. If you have to ask any questions, just pretend you didn’t watch it.

We’ve installed Intense Debate. A large number of blogs are moving to this system and it allows several login options. Over time, it will also eliminate the need for constant moderation. It also has some nice features for those that comment.

We’d suggest getting an account, although it’s not a requirement. You can do so by going to their web site: http://intensedebate.com/.

I had a setting wrong. You can now post topics. Sorry for the trouble.

http://www.angrywhiteboy.org/forums/

As I talk to clients or visit them in their home or office it most often requires that I have access to passwords. One such person has a list neatly printed out sitting next to his keyboard. Now that my friends, is security.

Late this year both my Twitter and Facebook accounts had the passwords hacked. Other than a hundred or so SPAM messages sent on Twitter the damage was minimal. Imagine if it had been a bank account?

After that happened I decided to increase the security level of my passwords.

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Google’s Gmail system has been returning 502 server errors for quite a while, (about 30 minutes). In internet terms, quite a while is more than a few minutes. What’s a 502 error? It could mean one of the following:

“502: Bad Gateway”
“502 – Service Temporarily Overloaded”
“HTTP Error 502 – Bad Gateway”

My guess is a denial of service attack, but who knows. It’s been an issue on and off for several days. I had issues with YouTube earlier today, which is owned by Google. It seems to be working fine now, as is the Google search engine. Gmail is still not responding.

Stay tuned.

This is all over the blogs the last couple of days, we just found out about it this morning.

If you’re going to go the federal government’s Cars.Gov web site for the “Cash for Clunkers” program, it seems they have a privacy clause that states:

“This application provides access to the DoT System. When logged on to the CARS System, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U. S. Government.

Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system maybe intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as other authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign.”

Don’t be frightened.

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Today’s the day.