Web Apocalypse: Twitter DDoS, Kill IE6, Paid Online News, and Facebook Issues Oh Noes!
Well today and this week is turning out to be quite the day for web-tech related news. Perhaps calling it the web apocalypse is a bit much, but it certainly seems the past month or two has been filled with crisis, huge news stories, and other signs the web is growing ever more powerful and […]
The Failure of a Freshman Dictator
According to the Least Preferred Coworker [LPC] scale, relationships motivate me [a score of 75]. As I discussed last week, I feel there is variability in these types of assessments and if I re-took the assessment a week, a month [etc.] from now, I would score differently. Nevertheless, at this point in time the results […]
How I Quit Smoking In Less Than One Minute And You Can Too! Part 1
Being relatively smoke-free for more than six months now I’m here to tell you about the immense benefits of not smoking and how to quit smoking in less than one minute. There’s simply too much material to cover in one post so we’ll have a 3-4 part series about cigarettes, their dangers and how to […]
Declaration of Independence 2.0
What happens when you change the wording of the original Declaration of Independence very slightly? In particular, if we change “King of Great Britain” to “King of the United States of America, George W. Bush” does the document still make sense? Let’s see [note, anything you see in brackets is me adding an incident to […]
Six Things You Searched For
So I was just scrolling through the search keyphrases that led to this here blog and found a few odd ones. Here’s six of them: small dog create Huh? Was this person asking Google to make them a small dog? too much fun but not enough education There is a fine balance. One which many […]
An Explanation To You
It’s been a little over a month since I started writing here again and I still feel I owe my readers an explanation for my near three month gap between my last post in 2007 on October 14 and my next post on January 6, 2008. The truth is, I was starting to become burnt […]
Away Message Poetry
My friends’ away messages on AIM (Instant Messenger) seem to flow together tonight; check it out: Dodgeball! unpacking the new house somewhere but not here feeling sick… if all you see is violence food. i love you rachel life’s good 😎 and I wear sunglasses at night. Skiing in VAIL! I left out the default […]
Web Quotes and Counterpoints IV
Let’s go with a twist to this edition of Web Quotes and Counterpoints, it’s organized by good news, bad news, and odd news. You can choose what you want to read first by clicking the links in the prior sentence or just read on (news follows the previous order, so good, bad, and finally odd). […]
Sales and Tech Carnivals
I’m participating in two carnivals this week and wanted to share them with you. Over at Technology Matter, the First Carnival of Tech is happening. In addition to my post from last week about the Redzee search engine, there were several other sites with great content. Check out the carnival when you get a chance. […]
Dear Feed Readers
Today’s post goes out to my RSS feed subscribers. I’ve recently spliced a daily summary of links I’ve posted to my del.icio.us account into the RSS feed. Do you enjoy this new feature or does it interfere with the textual content? I would very much appreciate your take on the matter either way and if […]