ZuNOB

I have been playing with Django lately. I came accross it as I was investigating and doing some development for the "Cloud" using GoogleApps.

This site was developed using Drupal and that was a reasonable choice in terms of speed of web site development and setup, at that time.

I like Google. I use many of Google services often and have been very satisfied with them.

ZuNOB has, till now, been using the AdSense service provided by Google. I think that, with this service, as from the 8th of April, 2009, Google is overstepping the boundaries characterised by their usual good, or even excellent, business and Internet behaviour.

Google bought DoubleClick and is now going to be using the facilities afforded by this acquisition. The net result of this is that users or visitors to a site displaying adverts by Google will be subject to some tracking by Google. This is a real threat to a user's right to his or her privacy.

Here is a Google e-mail addressed to this webmaster as AdSense space provider:

As of today, you can use OpenId to register and to login. This is not an anti-spam measure but an attempt at simply making it easier to login to this site by providing the ability to use a readily available single login for multiple unrelated sites. If you already have an OpenId simply use it to register and after that to login. If you don't, simply get one at a number of providers and register with it. Note that those who have some sort of accounts with some large companies, like Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc. already have or are capable of getting an OpenId through those companies.

I have been working on a new post for two days now. I am not happy with it as it appears, and really is too much of a rant. Consequently I have not published for 48 hours either. And although my erstwhile intention was, and still is, to make at least five posts a week on this site, this seems to be already in jeopardy.

I have been very busy, the last three months, researching available software to set up a web site. I spent a lot of time on that investigation and, subsequently, playing with, learning the finer aspects of the selected software and setting up this site with it. In this case the software selected is Drupal, for the usage of which this site is an example. Now, I am going to address and develop the content and direction of ZuNOB.