Pirated-Sites.com showcases side-by-side comparisons of web sites that are suspected of borrowing, copying or stealing copyright-protected content, design or code without permission.
Thank god there is a site for exposing this problem. If you look over their archives, the stuff is incredible. People pass off other’s work as their own… over and over and [...]

Having tired of the problems users face with Torrent search sites, a former Torrentz.com developer has created a website he promises will provide a better customer experience, Defiant.
Finally a place to download torrents that is open about the crunch from the MPAA.
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Here’s a great article at Tom’s Hardware about the process Data Recovery Services go through in order to get data back off of hard drive even if it won’t power on. Very interesting.
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To address Gregd’s recent post “I love Digg but it’s slow!”, we have just purchased 3 Sun Fire V20z Dual Opteron servers. We hope to have these installed and live within the next 2-3 weeks. Also get ready for Digg v2.0, packed with tons of new user requested features we know you’re going to [...]

Here are a few calculations on what GMail’s current and forecasted user storage limits will be:
(from www.wesbran.com)
Gmail storage is currently rising at 1/1000 MB every 25 seconds. This means that:

It takes a little over 6 hours 56 minutes to increase one MB
Every day storage increases by 3.456 MB
By next April 1st, Gmail users will have [...]

I’ve added to a few of the sections on the site. The Design section of the site has taken the most abuse. I decided to put up a history of my web development career, which is a first. There is one site I created before anything that is listed there, it was [...]

From www.washingtonpost.com
www.elitetorrents.org was shutdown on Wednesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security. Visitors to the site are welcomed by a bright red screen declaring the site permanently shutdown as well as warning of prosecution and punishment for online illegal activities.
The site also warns that organizers and users of the [...]

Well, I’m currently working on developing my first open-source API. It’s for the www.boxedthoughts.com API. I just finished updating the XML class. It controls the user metadata which anyone could use for their own website.
I plan on using it for my site as soon as it’s implemented. I developed something similar [...]

Anyone else notice that www.kevinrose.com has been down lately?
I’m assuming that it has something to do with the release of Systm. Users probably overloaded kevin’s server looking for information about the release. He says he’s on a new server right now, so hopefully everything will be restored shortly.
P.S. The premier episode of Systm [...]

Well, I’ve been working on debugging this blog for a few days now, and I think I finally got everything resolved. The biggest problem was with trackbacks and pingbacks. For some reason my site wasn’t sending trackbacks or pingbacks but was able to recieve them.
After much deliberation and a clean upgrade of WordPress, [...]