The good news is that this blog has been accepted into the beta of the Yahoo! Publishing Network. The bad news is that I was going to try to use the ads only within the RSS feed and leave them off of the blog for now, but I can’t. It’s (apparently) a requirement [...]
Powell’s is a good place to find new, used, and out of print books. They’re also a great alternative to Amazon.com.
The folks at Powell’s have a more down to Earth feel about them, which isn’t surprising considering that they have a brick-and-morter book store (or two). This shows in their professional yet people-centric [...]
This morning I uploaded a theme by isnaini.com. It’s a three column theme with the main content block situated on the left. It’s a fairly decent design that seems to be growing in popularity.
The problem is that the theme was loaded with ads, and they weren’t mine.
The right-center column contained AdSense and chitika codes, [...]
Yesterday I received the new CPU fan and heatsink that I ordered from Newegg. UPS, as usual, didn’t deliver the box until past 5:00 PM. This time, it was about 5:20 PM before the box arrived. I could vent more about them, but they’re not really worth the space.
Anyhow, the new block [...]
Some scientists in Singapore have created a prototype washing machine that cleans clothes without using any water. Though it may seem too good to be true it does appear to be real. A tool like this would be invaluable in the face of dwindling water supplies and large droughts.
Of course, it would feel [...]
I’ve posted my thoughts about Google Video in other venues. The gist of my opinion is that it’s great for the end user to share their content and link to their videos from their blogs or from game guild websites, but as a commercial venue it’s terrible. I wouldn’t trust the service with [...]
The seach plugins that you see available from the side menu of this blog are add-ons for the Firefox web browser. The search box looks something like this:
How Is This Useful For Me?
Instant Access: Instantly access the search feature of specific web sites that interest you.
Simplify: They make your life easier [...]
So, I just received a response from MyCroft explaining why the affiliate search plugin was removed. Their reason? They’re only allowing affiliate search boxes that fund their pockets. I am really, really curious about what other people think of this.
First of all, the Firefox browser links directly to this plugin repository. [...]
Despite the fact that the Firefox browser ships with affiliate plugins, the ones that you submit may be deleted from their database.
Today I discovered that every one of my search plugins had been deleted from the official MyCroft Mozilla / Firefox search plugin database. So I went about the process of updating every one [...]
Here’s a crazy idea: How about a .blog TLD? We have .com, .info, .tv and so on. If blogs began to use a .blog identifier, would it help organize the Internet’s information?
There are pros and cons to this. Here are some that hit me as I type.
On the plus side, search [...]