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Scared Cookie! The Consequences of Ignoring GDPR: Why American Businesses Need to Pay Attention

I’ve been on the internet for a long time! The US Air Force sent me to HTML school back in 1995 so you could say I’ve been here a while. I find it irritating and almost insulting that every website I visit requires me to accept some kind of cookie policy. Of course, I accept YOUR cookie policy, because I allow my browser to accept cookies! FOR EVERYONE! I’m tempted to click “no” I don’t…

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Blog, Computing, Web

Getting to know ChatGPT

I’ve spent the last few weeks getting to know this phenomenon known as ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence as it were. (https://chat.openai.com/) So what exactly IS ChatGPT? Well, let’s ask it. Q? What does ChatGPT stand for? Oh-kay… that doesn’t sound interesting at all… but it is! Lately, instead of Google, I’ve been logging onto my “openai.com” account to search for simple answers. For example, if I ask Google, Q? What is the difference between the…

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Blog, Computing, Web

My Computer Journey

I’ve been working on a computer since I got out of the Air Force in 1987. It was an IBM PS 2 connected to a spectrometer in a metallurgical laboratory in Birmingham Al. I’ve owned a personal computer since 1991. It was handmade by some guy in California and came with a 10mb hard drive. It was state of the art to be sure. I learned about the internet on that computer, which was not…

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Computing, Web

WordPress Archive Page NoIndex warning from Google

I turned on my phone this morning and was greeted by an ominous email from The “Google Search Console Team,” with the seeming dire warning… They provided me with a link to the console where I was told that the page davidfrancis.org/2023/02/ would not be indexed by Google because it contained the meta tag “noindex.” I brought up the page, looked at the source, and sure enough, it was there. While few people know what…

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Blog, Web

Google AdSense said, NO!

I received an email with the subject: You need to fix some issues before your site is ready for AdSense The email goes on to say, “The team has reviewed it but unfortunately your site isn’t ready to show ads at this time. There are some issues which need fixing before your site is ready to show ads.“ So I clicked on the Go To Sites link and lo and behold I was rejected because…

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Web

Simple Favicon.ico with PhotoShop

So I just set up a new website this morning (oh, this website), and I wanted a custom favicon. It took 30 seconds to make and I thought I would share. What is a favicon? Wikipedia will be happy to explain. Thirty seconds? Yep.1) Find the image (I took a screen capture of my Google Profile Picture) 2) Open it in photoshop3) Trim it to square4) resize it to 64×64 pixels 5) export/save for web6)…

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Web

Forcing SSL on a Domain IIS

I’ve been faced with this issue a few times. I simply want to force all traffic to the secure socket layer of my domain instead of the unencrypted side of things. Keep in mind that I’m a ASP classic kind of guy so I tend to think things the Microsoft way. I want all requests to the server to be directed to https – and this is how I did it. I created a text…

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