Most of my ramblings — including topics found on NearlyANerd.com — will now be over at http://wordead.tumblr.com.

– Josh Dippold

Jon Rafman is behind the 9 Eyes Tumblr, blogging strange, often exquisite images captured from Google Street View.

Do not check out my new Tumblr ERRORsEverywhere where I hope to eventually transfer all the error posts from Nearly A Nerd — and add current and continuing head-scratchers – chronicling the massive amounts of smartphone, computing and Internet errors I encounter on a daily basis.

Or if you make the jump (or are viewing this post in full already) it’s blog posts from the ERRORsEverywhere Tumblr.

PoliticalReps.com — Born: August 2006 – Died: June 28, 2010.

PoliticalReps.com now redirects to AllMilitary.com

[ The original PoliticalReps.com site is archived at http://politicalreps.blogspot.com ]

It was a decent run.

PoliticalReps.com was established with Blogger and FTP hosting. One day Blogger just up and refused to publish anymore. Not long after Blogger decided to scrap FTP hosting. Attempts to migrate to WordPress with a pathetic, cut-rate host proved aggravating beyond all toleration.

Political Reps.com now welcome AllMilitary.com as its redirect. Political Reps.com shifted its focus to the U.S. Military in April 2008 so a transition to AllMilitary.com is only natural.

All that is really lost are any new site updates; several good links to the site — including a coveted link from Wikipedia — and media once hosted on the site, like pictures, images, the occasional video and MP3, etc.  Most of what remains of the original site still resides at http://politicalreps.blogspot.com . . . for now.

So long.

Not a good day for me on the Netertubes yesterday.

My twitter account was compromised.  I got in long enough to delete the spam post, tweet an explanation and change my password, but made the mistake of logging out.

I tried to log back in last night and got the screen shot below.  This morning I got the same thing.  I’m trying to think where I may have a 3rd party twitter app open.  Or what the hell may be happening.  Blanking.  I’m still locked out.

Then I discovered a somewhat neglected website of mine also compromised. My site came up and loaded perfectly, but after about a minute, visitors to my site were automatically redirected to a different, unattended website.  Thanks M. Bernier for finding and eradicating the culprit code.  Make the jump if you’d like to lay eyes on the malicious code responsible.

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I believe people will use this information to help stop worthless bastards like those behind this grief.

Learn Something Every Day is dedicated to just that, learning a fact everyday.  There’s no write up on the site about the site, but I reckon those running the place get facts submitted and then do a drawing to go along with the fact and present one each day.

Google recently asked several online luminaries what they subscribe to, or read, in Google Reader.  There are people from four different areas:

* News
* Tech and web
* Food and health
* Trends and fashion

Find someone on the list you know or like, you can subscribe to what they read.  My only gripe is not linking to each site outright.  It would be nice to check out the main site before you commit to their whole RSS feed.

Let the error blogging continue. Wikipedia currently comes up blank and gives this error when going to an article.

A while back I was chatting with some folks about how somebody needs to come up with a program that easily allows you to churn out WordPress templates with little to no programing skills. It seems Artisteer now does just this.

Only I can’t use it now because it is Windows only.  So feel free to relate your experiences with it in the comments.  Is Artisteer a beginners only product or is it robust enough for professionals?  Does it integrate well with WordPress?  What do some of the final results look like?

You can also design Joomla and Drupal templates with Artisteer.

Below, a program screen shot:

So Google finally decides to do something with their blogging service Blogger and I first learn of it by logging into Blogger itself and not the tech media.  I’m surprised.  Looks like it may change for the worse.   A screen shot and some commentary after the jump:

I haven’t given it a go yet, but from the look of the image above, a multitude of changes are not in the works.  Blogger added a “Monetize” tab while removing the video upload button, at least for free hosted Blogger blogs.  Just what the Internet needs: an easier way for spammers to make money instead of facilitating better content creation.

The only other change I see on this create a post page is the option to “add location”.  (Maybe that prints out your coordinates or city.  I should have tried it.)  Also there is a slightly redesigned header; the useless “status” option is gone; and it looks like you can finally resize the entire WYSIWYG editor where you compose your post.

I’ll have to dig deeper into the changes, but I must ask myself: why am I still using Blogger?