zoso.ro certificate expired

We have recently learned that the self-appointed “father” of Romanian blogosphere or blogo.ro-oaie had allowed the HTTPS (security) certificate for his main website, the zoso.ro blog, to expire. Visitors to his blog were greeted with the certificate error below.

Combining Two Blogger Blogspot Blogs

I have long ago started several blogs as I have quite a few areas of interest and points of view, some apparently contradictory. I wanted to explore different sides of my personality but as it often happens, I never had enough time to fully develop some of these blogs. Since I hardly have enough time to update them any more, it makes sense to combine some under one single address.

Blocking an IP address from accessing your blog

I have recently noticed in one of my blogs typical spider activity. A certain IP would visit, then proceed to access only the updated articles or the articles with new comments, within seconds. For a while, I considered blocking this IP, then I decided on a better solution.

Encryption on Blogger III – Vincent Cheung

Vincent has updated his code to a newer, better version, and we're trying to keep up with the times.

Encyrption on Blogger II - veenix

The best and most complete real encryption function for Blogger (and probably other platforms as well) was done by Vinnie, a student at the same U of T Engineering department where I studied as well.

Encryption on Blogger I - obfuscation

I often find myself publishing articles on Blogger / Blogspot that I do not want to be read in their entirety by everybody. I want to hide parts of them and make them available only to a select group of people, or nobody at all. If you ever feel this way, this article's for you.

Welcome! Have a read and FAQ yourself

What is the point of this website? What are we trying to accomplish? Do we plan to rule the world and if so, will we be good, googly, or evil? The answer to these and other questions, below.