Posted in Startups on February 28th, 2007 34 Comments »
I am a Joost beta user and you can be too! I just got two invitations so if you want one just comment with the name and email you want me to send it to. The first two takers get them…
I installed Joost a few weeks ago (right about the time they changed the name [...]
Posted in interesting on February 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
There is a great article over at Yahoo with a good explanation (as good as is possible given how many things factor in) of just what happened today in the stock market. It’s not very encouraging, but it is easily the most interesting thing I read today…
From the article:
It began with a 9 percent slide [...]
Posted in Google Reader, me, the web on February 27th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s official- I have completely moved my RSS reading over to Google Reader. For a months now I have resisted moving away from my desktop reader, RSS Bandit, and while I still believe it to be the best desktop reader (so long as you are looking for something light weight with no web counterpart), despite [...]
Posted in the web, work on February 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
For about a month now I have been using the public beta of reinvigorate.net. This is an online analytics program for web site tracking. It is meant to be used instead of (or in addition to) programs like Google Analytics (Urchin) or Statacounter or AWstats, or whatever other program you like.
At the start of the [...]
Posted in review, tech on February 26th, 2007 No Comments »
For years I have been looking for a great program for dealing with all my photos. I shoot mainly for work, vacations, and family events, but I have been using a digital camera for a long time (think Sony Mavica shooting onto floppy disks) and all those photos add up. I have developed good storage [...]
Posted in arghyle, the web on February 26th, 2007 6 Comments »
As of Friday March 2nd Media Temple will begin to run an upgraded version of the Grid hosting service. Version 1.2 (GMR v.1.2) is the latest improvement to the Grid, the most significant being the use of MySQL Grid containers, or private MySQL containers for each account.
Other improvements coming to this $20 a month service [...]
Posted in Writing Equipment, me on February 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was hanging today, feeling a bit saucy, so I made a purchase at my favorite pen store. I am not much of an impulse buyer so this was a bit out of the ordinary. I picked up a Pilot Hi-Tec-C Cavalier, the metal-bodied version of the famous Hi-Ted-C. It uses the same refill as [...]
