Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

Your browser knows more about you than you think. Go, right now, and find the “favorites.html” file generated by Internet Explorer or Netscape. Open the file in your browser. Neat, huh? All of you favorites are arranged in your own meticulous hierarchy, or one giant random list depending on your organizational karma. Now, view the source code for the page. See all those odd things like “ADD_DATE=1234567890″? Those long strings of didgits tell how many seconds since 1970 (a standardized time reference a la UNIX) an event occured. Notice also the “Number of visits” and “Last visited” data. Sneaky, huh? All this data serves a useful purpose for subscribing to various sites; they can also incriminate. . . You’ve been warned!

Another reason not to buy a new car.

Sci-fi writers of the planet, take note! Here is a cool background for a plot: Increasing cases of schizophrenia are a result of time-travelers returning to our timeline to make adjustments to “improve” their own timeline (insert reasons why they need to do this here). However, these modifications do more than just change the course of major historical events; they create splices in the Space-Time Continuum