How to stop websites hijacking your copy / paste.

Copy / Paste Hijacking

A couple of years ago I noticed an annoying trend: sometimes when I would copy and paste text from a website, in addition to the text I had actively selected I was seeing links back to the original website come up. In most cases these are not even pretty links (e.g. with a shortening service like bit.ly), and quite long, but in any case I was having undesired text injected into my selection.

Destiny Alpha First Impression (PS4)

First impression of Bungie's $500M Destiny

For this weekend only, PS4 owners are able to play Destiny, the massive upcoming MMO from Bungie, due out later this year.

Restoring data from Carbonite and an external drive

I have been a happy user of Carbonite's cloud backup for a couple of years. I'm up to about 220 GB of data backed up. During this time, I've attempted two restores of my data, both successfully.