23Apr 2025 by R&O No Comments
Top Tens that never took off

Top Tens that never took off

Entertainment, Internet, Of Interest, Silly Stuff
Way back in 2011 TopTenInPictures original called 'TopTenInPictures.com' that would display image slides I created for a variety of top ten lists. Each list was created in PhotoShop and would take some time to research and create. I created hundreds of lists covering a wide variety of topics and hoped to monetize the site with Google Ads. That was not to be. Within a relatively short period of time Google Ads stopped serving ads to the site due to copyright infringement claims for some of the images I used. After struggling along for a few months I finally gave up and closed the site. I came across the slide images on a backup drive a few weeks ago and decided to post some of the lists here on Aprilroad.com. I'll…
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13Jul 2019 by R&O No Comments
My Bitcoin Rollercoaster Ride

My Bitcoin Rollercoaster Ride

Bitcoin, Economy, Finance, Internet, Life, Technology
It's been 9 years since my first tentative experiments with Bitcoin and the ride is just as exhilarating as ever, even more so as the price has begun skyrocketing once again. After reading about the technology way back in 2013 and setting up my old windows computer with software to mine coins, realizing my hard drive was too small to store the blockchain ledger and my computer too slow and clunky to process transactions, I gave up before receiving any coins. But I realized that it was something important and I needed to learn everything I could about it and understand how it worked and more importantly, how to participate. Cut to mid 2019, almost 2 years after the crazy December 17, 2017 peak of USD $19,783.21 per coin and…
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13Sep 2014 by R&O No Comments
U2 Toilet Virus

U2 Toilet Virus

Entertainment, Internet, Music, Rants, Technology
I was cleaning my house yesterday and finally got around to scrubbing out the toilet, my least favourite job and the most emotionally traumatizing part of the home sanitation process. Lifting the toilet seat I was quite shocked to discover U2's new release 'Songs of Innocence' floating around in the bowl. I don't listen to U2, don't like their music and really dislike the uber-douche Bono along with his disingenuous, hand-wringing, self-aggrandizing, political whinging. He's a wanker with silly sunglasses. After some investigation I discovered that U2 has reached agreements with every municipal government to have the their shit album pumped into every home on the planet. Shiny new copies of their lame aural effort will be pushed through water systems and into the poop-pots of every household on the…
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05Aug 2014 by R&O No Comments
Internet Losers

Internet Losers

Assholes, Internet, Observations, Rants
When I first logged on to the Internet back in 1993 there was a wonderful lack of spammers, scammers, cheats and scumbags. It was a happy community of fellow nerds, reveling in the technical wonderment of it all and doing what we could to improve the technology. Not any more. The Internet has been invaded by every lowlife piece of shit, from eastern European malware dickheads, Nigerian scammers, pedophiles, juvenile delinquents, bullies, terrorists and every other piece of human excrement that roam this planet. They have all found a home here on our wonderful Internet and continue to add a touch of misery to the magic that is computer networking technology. Just like everyone with an email address, I get my fair share of spam, especially through this website and…
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