JAP — ANONYMITY & PRIVACY:

In the current political climate with the eroding personal privacy rights some of us may want a way to hide our browsing habits from the large entities that like to track those kind of things. It may be due to political oppression, opposition to big media, avoiding giving Google any more data on you in their vast databases or simply to keep the boss from finding out you spend 90% of your day browsing for pr0n. Well there are a variety of tools available to you to achieve this.

The tool I’m going to introduce you to today is a piece of software called JAP (It’s not specified on the site that I can find but I assume it’s short for Java Anonymous Proxy)
JAP is a program written in Java that you can point your web browser to and surf the Internet relatively anonymously.

Hello Everybody

As you’ve most likely noticed. I’ve done a mild redesign on liamm.com. I read about an online WordPress theme generator and thought I’d give it a try. The site as you see it now is the result.

Check it out it’s fairly interesting even if you don’t have a WordPress site to update

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

My G3 iPod has seen it’s battery life degrade like a corpse in summer over the past little while.

So I decided I’d try my hand at replacing the battery. Now I’m an impatient sort so being that there was a local retailer who had batteries in stock (Energizer) I decided to go and pick one up instead of ordering a kit online. Now the drawback I found with this was the lack of supplied tools to pry the iPod open with. Most kit’s purchased online will provide some sort of plastic pry tool that is designed to not damage your iPod when prying it open. Well I had to make do with a Jewelers screwdriver (Just a very small flathead screwdriver).

Now this is what you’ll need

1. Pry tool (in my case a screwdriver)
2. Battery (Energizer G3 iPod battery for my install)
3. Flat clean work surface