When I first launched this blog, I made a concentrated effort to blog daily. Whatever it was, some tech stuff had to be mentioned. Along the way I got side tracked and got too ‘busy’ for this blog. So while I still posted occasionally, it lost the luster it had originally. Lately I’ve got two [...]
My last post was on the randomness of how a search let me to find out about other people discussing one of our companies. I love random stories. It is truly odd how on the internet, everything is interlinked. So – another story. I was going through iBegin Geocoder’s stats when I noticed a forum [...]
For those that don’t know, ‘edge cases’ are something that only happen in extreme cases. Rare, but also cause a bit of headaches. So I was looking at the Stumble Upon reviews of CSS Basics (a site we own), when I laughed at the last page. On the bottom is a ‘Next »’ even though [...]
It sure has been a while. As always, things keep happening at lightning speed. I’ve talked about personal balance before (you need time away from work), but it seems like I can’t even follow that myself. From 8 am to 6 pm, and then back at it from 11 pm to 2-4 am, it seems [...]
As I alluded to in my previous post (MadKast is stupid), a viable company is not what passes around for ‘entrepreneurship’ these days. It is sad. Any Joe Blow with a computer and blogging software starts to blog. Good for him. He then starts to make money – even enough money to quit his day [...]
It is good to see that the high ground is still being espoused by people in power. Replace ‘paid links’ with ‘sponsored themes’ and you have the previous argument all over again – there is no definitive line between the two. This ain’t black and white. My fellow cohort Jacob has written a nice post [...]
Sometimes it boggles my mind how badly websites are structured. Take Canada Post. Try searching for ‘m5s 2t1′ – fails. Try searching for ‘M5S 2T1′ – success. It would have taken the programmer literally 5 seconds to convert the postal code into all upper case.
The most popular specific searches across our local properties are always brand names – Sears, [local grocery chain], McDonalds, etc etc. What has always boggled my mind is if you visit a franchise/national brand store (eg Sears or McDonalds), they all have a franchise locater. It is an obvious feature that people would like. But [...]
Everyone is jumping on the ‘how to make money online’ idea, usually sprinkled with a dash of ‘digg-loving lists’. But advice is suppoused to be something accumulate over the years. People who shouldn’t be dishing out advice are. And it is bad advice. To pick out an example: 5 myths about blogging. Claim #1: “You [...]
Yesterday was Apple’s WWDC 2007 event, complete with Steve Jobs’ keynote (many people felt disappointed by the announcements, but the hype was just nutty). We ourselves covered it live as it happened. While it was going on, I went around and surfed other Mac sites. And what I found was highway robbery. When all was [...]