Quick statistics (as of 3/25/2009 at 4:06 PM) for some popular terms based on the search results on the White House’s “Open For Questions” site: » Continue reading “White House: “Open For Questions” Stats”

Like hundreds of others, I have to respond to Eric Clemens Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet article on TechCrunch because it appears to be linkbait or flamebait, or worse. What follows is a summary and discussion of his arguments, most of which seem to ignore the past 14 years of internet evolution. » Continue reading “Summary of “Advertising is Failing” on TechCrunch”

This expression relates to the coal mining days when ventilation in coal mines was often insufficient, and mining was was a very dangerous and difficult task.

Coal miners would bring a canary with them. Canaries tend to be sensitive to methane and carbon dioxide and so when the canary died » Continue reading “Advertising is the Canary”

Found a workaround for a window focus problem with Google’s Chrome browser. » Continue reading “Chrome problems with window focus (workaround)”

Wow. It’s 2009, and apparently DNS can only support reading configuration file lines which are not greater than 255 characters. I received the following error » Continue reading “DKIM TXT Records in DNS exceeding 255 characters”

What part of "Do Not Email" do you not understand?

I used Monster three years ago, and they just don’t get it.

As a quick comment on the service, it’s the “shotgun” effect of » Continue reading “Monster should be burned at the stake for email practices”

We accumulate a lot of junk in life. And when I say we, I think I mean the “American People”, but what I really mean is: me.

My mother has perfected the art of accumulating things: She still resides in the house-I-grew-up-in (a 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom home) wherein each and every room is populated with » Continue reading “Being Safe with Craigslist Sales”