Posted in the web on January 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
When submitting a comment to Digg you have to read text from an image and type in the characters for authentication. This is done in order to prove that you “are human” and that the item is not being submitted by some sort of script or bot. This works well enough, but for Digg’s users, [...]
Posted in the web on January 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
TechCrunch has a dedicated but very outspoken readership. This has really helped the site grow because the people reading are, to a certain extent, the movers and shakers of the industry so there is not surprise that they often feel strongly about the topics being covered. There is no covering up the fact that once [...]
Posted in arghyle, the web on January 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
I just upgraded to 2.0.6 and then 2.0.7, but 2.1 is finally here! The 2.0.x line should keep going for some time but I will definitely be upgrading to 2.1 this week. Some cool features include autosave, lossless XML import/export, more AJAX, better image handling, and higher tech security through the use of nonces.
Wordpress upgrades [...]
Posted in tech on January 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been using a Dell UltraSharp 2405 24″ widescreen LCD for over a year now and it has had a profound effect on my work. I am on the computer for most of the work day and am always running multiple applications and a few different browser windows so I really need the room of [...]
Posted in tech, the web on January 21st, 2007 No Comments »
MediaTemple’s Grid (the hosting service this blog is on) is a great idea, but has had some operational issues. The company has been relatively open about the problems (at least with its users) and has made large improvements over the past few months. While the first month or two of my experience with the Grid [...]
Posted in the web, work on January 18th, 2007 No Comments »
William Trent at SeekingAlpha has a post on how the PC market is in decline. The general trends he points out are how sales are growing yet revenues are not and how growth of market share is decided upon by price cuts that are very damaging to a company’s bottom line.
As the writer points [...]
XYZ Computing has been working with Federated Media for about 10 months now. It’s been a very positive experience and despite XYZ not being very “bloggy” our two organization are perfectly matched- I need more a “boutique” ad agency who can get higher CPMs regardless of the number of pageviews and they need high quality [...]