Serial Box Crime

Since Rogers decided to invade their customers computers with unwanted ads I’ve received a lot of traffic resulting from search engine queries such as disable rogers search page, rogers dns hijack, and rogers hijacked my browser.  I did post a solution to this in a previous post that required editing a Windows system core file.  While that method was definitely successful it does have its drawbacks.  It simply redirects all requests for *.rogers.com to your own machine essentially blocking out all of Rogers.  While this is successful it still does …

How would you feel if this was your home business website and a potential customer was just stolen by Rogers, a major ISP in Canada. Im going to go sit in front of your hardware store and for each customer that opens your door I will try to sell them my hardware tools instead before they get inside the door.
Do you own a domain name?  Like most web site owners you’d likely have your website located at www.yourdomain.com .  What usually happens if you accidentally make a mistake while …

A reader of mine, Kobra, has provided the following workaround if you use Windows operating system. Edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad and add 127.0.0.1 www20.search.rogers.com . Thanks!  For a full set of alternate instructions that does not require modifying your core Windows System files visit my tutorial on disabling the Rogers Search Page.
Rogers Has Violated Net Neutrality?  Unbelievable.  This morning I awoke bright and early ready to start surfing and finding new things to write about.  The first thing I did was attempt to load my site in Firefox …

Yay for hypocrisy in the media, what else is new?  NOW Magazine, a free local Toronto newspaper knows all about that.  Flipping through a dirty used copy of this weeks edition while riding the subway home tonight I came across the section for Letters to the Editor and found something very amusing.  This gentleman writes,
On page 35 of your pride issue, you continue your longstanding, accurate warning of Wal-Mart’s deadly effect on every neighbourhood, community, minimum-wage law and cheap-labour country it touches (NOW, June 26-July 2).  But then on page …

Had a nice laugh when I got home from work this evening and figured I’d share.  As you can see from the blue diagonal stripe in the left corner of my blog I support removing rel=’nofollow’ from comments left on my Wordpress site.  My stance on that just as anyone else who does this is that if you take the time to visit my site, interact and leave opinions that you should receive credit for your time in the form of a link back to your site that will be …