David Berube’s Blog

I finally made what I’ve been wanting to make fo, well, a few years now.

I made iPawtucket.com. For those of you who don’t know, Pawtucket is my home city here in little Rhode Island. I’ve been wanting to make a news aggregator for the city for quite some time now. Mostly for my own use, but I can see some people finding this useful.

It’s still a work in progress for when I get some downtime with MoFuse.

No more “malware” on this blog. The intermediate page you got warning you that my blog could be hazardous to your health if you found this blog via Google is now gone. Turned out that my default Wordpress installation came with a vulnerability, yadda yadda yadda, it’s fixed.

I broke my iPhone’s screen this weekend. Had about 5-6 cracks in it. Brought it to the Genius Bar at the Apple store and they gave replaced the entire unit for me on the spot without any hassles. Above and beyond customer service to say the least, good job Apple!

MoFuse is doing great too. We launched a new homepage last week that is much more clear than before. We’re working on two very major projects that I can’t really talk about at this time but I’m excited about them to say the least.

I’ve been very limited past few weeks. It all started with terrible allergies and then I got walking Pneumonia. It’s terrible and I don’t recommend anyone get it (as if you have a choice). Anyways, I’m just starting to feel a little better (as if you care). In the future, if you ever think you might have it, immediately goto the doctor’s office and get antibiotics — they took 5 days to work but they do make a huge difference.

So the other day I did a Google search and a link from my blog came up with a warning after I clicked it.

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

LOL… What? Apparently this installation of Wordpress is a secret front for malicious software. With all seriousness I started to roam around as to why sites can get labeled as such. It appears all it takes is for someone to report it.

That’s a bit ridiculous. So now all searches from Google that head to my blog will not directly link here. Instead visitors will get that big ole’ warning and then they’ll have to manually type the link in to continue.

I’ve filled a grievance with Google and StopBadware.org. We’ll see when they get back to me, it’s been 3 days now.

Just noticed the sublinks under the MoFuse hompage on a Google search. Neat stuff.

While searching Google’s Blog Search they told me I was now being blocked because they think I am a robot. Funny stuff.