TechnoTrash
Me Fit? Maybe Not. How About Wii Fit?
So the other night I was watching Chelsea Handler and she had Tina Yothers on. You know, the girl from Family Ties who wasn’t Mallory? Anyway, she was pretty hard core about being on Celebrity Fit Club, and seemed like a pretty cool woman, so the next time I saw Celebrity Fit Club was on [...]
Test Driving Flock
Is anyone else using Flock exclusively yet? I downloaded it after I saw an ad for it (I can’t remember where) and checked it out. It looks a little smoother and full-featured than Firefox, but I haven’t really hooked in all of my social networking accounts and really tested it out yet. There’s a pretty [...]
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate
I am very crunched for time today, but tonight I’ll be installing the WordPress 2.5 release candidate on one of my development blogs and give a full report here–probably posted sometime very early Wednesday morning. From the looks of it, the “Write” section of the dashboard is going to be much improved, which is an [...]
Speech to Text Software
We’ve been contemplating buying the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software so that The Missus can “write” content for our new project while holding a baby. Â It would also be a lot easier for her to dictate everything–she’s an excellent speaker–as fast as she want to go. Â I can go back in later and edit if needed, but [...]
Sort The Viewers, Not The Movies
My buddy IB sent this article to me…very interesting. Netflix is running a contest for data crunchers and offering $1M to anyone (or any team) that can beat their current recommendation system by 10%. One of the leaders is a psychologist working by himself who is looking less at raw data and more at human [...]
Yeah, What He Said
The other day I posted a meandering attempt at not ranting about information technology and the manufacturing sector. Today, Seth Godin wrote a post about basically the same thing. The difference is, his post actually makes some sense. Talent is too smart to stay long at a company that wants it to be a cog [...]
Yahoo! With a Huge Web Hosting Announcement
The other day I mentioned Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! Today, Yahoo! made a pretty interesting announcement…Yahoo! Web Hosting now provides UNLIMITED disk space and UNLIMITED bandwidth for less than $12. That means that those videos you’ve been uploading to YouTube (owned by Google) because they are big and take up bandwidth can now be [...]
My Time Off The Grid
When I go off, I go waaaaaay off. Very light blogging the last few days, but I’ve written a ton of code. All of it is really good, functionally, but nothing I’m prepared to share with the world. See, I have a tendency to get pretty sloppy with my programming unless I know exactly where [...]
Sun Buys MySQL
I don’t write about tech stuff here too often, but since this blog, and most likely yours*, is backended by MySQL, it’s relevant. MySQL’s business model works like this–it’s free (as in beer) to use, but enterprise level users do pay the company for support. That’s what makes it so great for the web. People [...]
Part II (of many) on SEO, Google, and Content–Technology Moves, Build For Change
First of all, I can’t take credit for all of these ideas. Lot’s of them have been borrowed from guys like Steve Pavlina who are basically saying the same thing I am. One of the more important points Steve makes is that your content should be timeless. What he means by this is that if [...]
