Dreamhost Private Server Rocks!

May 16, 2008 at 2:06 pm | blabbing, web.

I have kick butt hosting through Dreamhost, but I was having some slowness issues around all my WordPress sites that run content from a database. I decided to try out a virtual private server and wow… what a difference. You can only get it if you are already a Dreamhost customer. You use a simple… Read more »

Link Farming / Scraping and You

May 15, 2008 at 2:57 pm | blabbing, web.

I ran across a strange thing today. I was looking through my site stats and I starting noticing strange site referrers. Upon further investigation I found a link farm site that was taking a post I made harping about customer service at musicians Friend and using it as part of a link farm site that… Read more »

Great presentation about online businesses

at 10:11 am | business, web.

Todd showed me this great presentation by David Heinenmeier Hansson from 37signals.com So many people are so focused on making the next Facebook that they don’t realize that most businesses start on a small scale with good ideas and grow over time.

Microsoft abandons bid for Yahoo!

May 3, 2008 at 5:12 pm | business, web.

We’re taking our toys and going home I think everyone in the Sili valley has been holding their breath of late as the big bad MS wolf has been sniffing around Yahoo!s door. But I guess after a little executive foot dragging and some shareholder cold shoulders to their plan Microsoft has given up its… Read more »

College Essay and internet legend

May 1, 2008 at 2:42 pm | web.

Alanna is writing a small paragraph to publishers to go with her book and it reminded me of this college essay by Hugh Gallagher that has become internet legend. Years and years ago people sent this to each other in email. It’s still funny.

The difference in search engines

April 15, 2008 at 9:02 am | web.

I had to make a small Flash demo the other day and part of it was showing a bunch of search engine logos, so just for fun I decided to use each search engine to find the logo of the respective engine. It was just another way to illustrate why Google is the king of… Read more »

Microsoft FireFox

March 20, 2008 at 9:26 am | web.

This Microsoft FireFox spoof is so well done that I almost believe that its serious. It even has videos. I mean well done videos. Most people who have actual products would be lucky to have a site that is done this well. Look at the time they took to do the box shot. Sweet. Ok,… Read more »

Great Management glossary

March 13, 2008 at 10:32 am | business, web.

http://www.randsinrepose.com/glossary_alpha.html He also has some great other content. If you are a geek or know someone who is. His book also looks pretty interesting. It has a great microsite.

WordPress built with Dreamweaver?

February 20, 2008 at 3:23 pm | business, web.

Matt over at WordPress posted that he uses Adobe Dreamweaver and he has had problems with the newer release. Somehow I was kinda surprised at this. I have heard so many coders (maybe this is just the Linux and Unix guys) ripping Dreamweaver since it came out that I thought it was sort of the… Read more »