Archive for January, 2009
Webspammers getting very insistent
Jan 27th
Okay, this is annoying me enough that I just have to post a quick message about it. Spammers, I am not some newbie looking for easy links to try and grow my site traffic. Your multiple requests for a link exchange, that has been sent to every domain I own that has a link on…
Better to open early, or when complete?
Jan 24th
I find that I get bored of my blog quite a bit. Mostly because many of the designs I have used in the past couple of years have been common designs I’ve downloaded from common design repositories and then modified to fit my own style a little more. Problem is, the fundamental design doesn’t really…
Resurrecting a former website
Jan 18th
A member of my family has a penchant for getting involved in the latest MLM scheme with alarming regularity. He “invests” his money and his time into these schemes and spends plenty of time making the efforts to have it succeed, but for one reason or another, after months of effort he rarely seems to…
Great new Mac vs PC fan-fiction video
Jan 13th
The whole Mac vs PC thing got old a long time ago. I still maintain that Linux beats both, but its subjective for everyone I guess. What is really good is when we see people starting to take the whole concept to a new level. Both brands have their good and bad points, and both…
Windows 7 keys for all
Jan 11th
I got my product key for the Windows 7 beta program!!! Very happy. For those of you that are also interested in trying out the beta, good news. Due to an enormous surge in demand, the download experience was not ideal so we listened and took the necessary steps to ensure a good experience. We…
Still waiting…
Jan 10th
For a company that is claiming to be all about Cloud Computing in the future, and is finally starting to look at web platforms as a viable medium for software development and implementation, Microsoft really knows how to screw up a web launch of a product. Today was supposed to be the day you could…
Please learn the history of the Middle East
Jan 10th
There are massive arguments happening right across the web about the Hamas vs Israel conflict. Well, actually its become more of a “who can shout the loudest” match than anything else really. The ignorance of people in this matter really bothers me though. In less than 100 years people appear to have all but forgotten…
tlex.us is alive
Jan 4th
Services like TinyURL are great. They allow us to shrink long URLs and make them much smaller and simpler to use on services like Twitter or even just in emails. I also find that there are other services I personally use as well as link shrinking. And so I decided that the best way to…
Banned from the English Language
Jan 2nd
Every year, the Lake Superior State University comes out with a list of words that should be banned from the English language due to Over user, mis use, or just plain general Uselessness. They’ve been doing it for a few decades now, but this years list has to be one of the best so far.…