Lots of stuff’s been going on since the last time I made a post, but here’s a little tip for anyone else who’s using an ISP who has decided to implement an advertising saturated “URL helper” which redirects you to an annoying “did you mean this?” page.  Apparently it’s all the rage now to generate ad-based revenue for ISPs, but it can break things for geeks and just generally be annoying.

The answer is simple really:  manually set your DNS entries, flush your DNS cache, and clear your browser cache.  I use the DNS servers at 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 and never seem to have a problem with them.  That’ll teach these overbearing ISP bastards for forcing their idiotic improvements on everyone!

BTW if you don’t know how, just Google your OS and “DNS settings” and I’m sure something will pop up.  Good luck!