City of Morons

One of my favorite games is City of Heroes / Villains.

Sadly I haven't been playing it that much. But I visit the forums every day. Today I came across a post titled "City of Morons". Curios as to what it was about, I clicked it.

Block Adds With HostsMan

(Since this post is kinda long I'll make the important parts bold.)

A wile ago I found out about this really cool thing called a HOSTS file. Basically what they can do is redirect certain urls / IP address from coming in and out your computer. This file can be used to block ads, URLs, and other malicious stuff found on teh Interwebz. (a virus or hacker can use this to redirect you to bad websites too)

One of the problems I found with it though is that if you want to watch a TV show, like from NBC or hulu or something, it wouldn't show! I was wondering why. Then it hit me. Its because places like NBC and hulu use outside advertising in the little 30 sec. commercials that are shown. And the shows won't show on NBC until the ads are.. well.. shown =\. Hulu will show them though. So, how can you watch something if it's being blocked?

Windows Live Writer Test

This is a test to see how Windows Live Writer works.

What is Windows Live Writer? Its software for writing blogs! Now, all blogging systems allow you to write within the blog itself. But sometimes it's nice to use a standalone software for it.

First!

I guess this is my first post here on blogger. I maintained a previous blog but it was nothing serious and I don't think any one actually read it :p. That one was using wordpress on a free web hosting service (that didn't have advertisements ^_^).