I must have pissed of the Canadian, Chinese and US governments really badly

I must have pissed of the Canadian, Chinese and US governments really badly. I have been fairly active on Twitter, Facebook and, to a lesser degree, G+ pushing for a stop to Keystone XL pipeline, genetically modified foods and Monsanto's control of the US Food and Drug Administration. I have also been active in discussions regarding the Affordable Care Act (also known as ACA or ObamaCare) on G+.

Paper-li and I

In my article Philip Ramsey: Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way on Monday October 17, 2011 I talked about the merits of Paper.li and how it helped me increase my Twitter following.

Why is Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) promoting unencrypted web sites for netfiling?

Last year I started using FutureTax for preparing personal income tax for people. In previous years I used CanTax but got tired of their crappy applications that are proned to crashes.

Warning to spammers on Twitter - I take computer security seriously

Lately, I have been receiving text messages on my cell phone from Twitter accounts that are trying to lure me to malicious websites. I use two really great plugins, WIPMania for knowing where a website's geographic location and Web_Of_Trust (or WOT) for knowing the reputation of the website I am visiting, for Firefox. I also use Linux exclusively. Your malware will never affect me for more that a few minutes

Philip Ramsey: Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way

Philip Ramsey: Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way

NetFirms login page is broken

NetFirms is a web hosting service that operates in both Canada (www.netforms.ca) and United States (www.netfirms.com). Last year NetFirms were bought out by The Endurance International Group, Inc. Once the transition from the Netfirms old OpenBSD servers to The Endurance International Group Debian Linux servers I have noticed the Login page for their Control Panel has broken encryption.

BecomeTheBoss.net update/improvements

philip ramsey - Google+

For the past few weeks I have been on updating, or more accurately, improving www.becometheboss.net. The idea for the improvements started back in August when I bought my ASUS Eee Pad aka ANDROID TRANSFORMER tablet. It has two cameras - a back facing high definition camera and a lower resolution front facing camera. I think you know where I am going with this.

Wordpress - the new platform for spreading malware

Index of /wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options

Lately, I've been receiving spam mail from a compromised Hotmail account that sends out links to compromised Wordpress blogs. Or maybe the Wordpress blogs were setup specifically to redirect visitors to phishing sites that are part of a bot.net network.

Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way

A few months ago I discovered Paper.li. It is a great web api for curating content from Twitter and Facebook. My first paper was The world according to Spyc1 follow by Toronto Business according to Spyc1 a few weeks later.

Free eBook: How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence .... is the book worth the risk?

I came across this Free eBook: How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence in 10 Minutes a Day and thought it would be great to get. When I clicked on the link, I was presented with a form requesting that all fields be completed including my phone number business information. Because of the recent spate of successful cyber attacks against businesses and governments lately, I immediately checked if the page was encrypted or not.