Video
Video: Ring of Fire – 10 year trip through the Indonesian Island Chain
Wikipedia: Ring of Fire Documentary Video Film 202: The Ring of Fire, Part 5 Documentary Video Film 201: The Ring of Fire, Part 4 Documentary Video Film 200: The Ring of Fire, Part 3 Documentary Read more…
Open-Source
WordPress hacked
Interesting that WordPress can be hacked. Observations Blog infected with malware base64 decode in index.php FAQ identified as redirector.ji Identified as Trojan:JS/BlacoleRef.W Research Google: base64 decode wordpress hacked site:dreamhost.com Case study of website malware removal WordPress Directory and File Permissions Read more…
Virus-SpyWare-Security
SMART HDD Malware removal
Yikes when will these guys quit and get a real job? This one hides your files and makes it hard to recover. Ran TDSSKiller – nothing detected Ran MalwareBytes – detected a list of things – deleted > Indirect Link Read more…
Virus-SpyWare-Security
Removing rootkit.0access.h Rootkit Google Redirector
More stuff showed up on my personal machine. Yuk. rootkit.0access.h Additionally when using the method I used it breaks the net connection. I fixed all. Sequence follows. TDSSKiller – I had to run and reboot several times. I also Read more…
Video
Video: The Trail of Genghis Khan – Tim Copes Journey by horse back across Mongolia
Trail of Genghis Khan 1 Trail of Genghis Khan 2 Trail of Genghis Khan 3 Trail of Genghis Khan 4 Trail of Genghis Khan 5 Trail of Genghis Khan 6 From the former Mongol capital Karakorum to the Danube, young Read more…
Video
Video: Off the Rails – A bicycle trip across Russia Mongolia China
See the video here: Off the Rails These sort of trips are what I call "a cultural experience". You think it is about the bicycle but a strange thing happens when you bicycle. Your endorphins rise and people open Read more…
Economics
Keith Weiners paper on Gold Backwardation – The dynamics and how it leads to shortages
Crack up boom – click for larger version Very interesting paper on how gold backwardation presages a crackup boom of fiat based currencies and the dynamics of how that leads to shortages. Gold Backwardation