Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in plans, privacy, technology, web sites on Jan 23rd, 2012
In the past I’ve avoided location-aware services, opting instead to conceal my location to all but my ISP, cellular provider, and whoever else might be capable and willing to find out.
2012 marks a departure from that stance.
Armed with a Nexus One, I’ve started using a few new services.
I’ve started to use foursquare to track my [...]
Posted in technology, troubleshooting on Aug 23rd, 2011
I haven’t had land-line phone service in more than a decade, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t missed it. If I’m on a two hour conference call I don’t want to be burning up the minutes and battery on my cell phone (or be tethered to the wall where the charger is plugged in), [...]
Posted in advertising, google, money on Jan 14th, 2010
I was surprised to read about Google’s new approach to China. Very public. On the other hand, the search magnate seems to like grand and shocking departures from norms, even theirs. While I wouldn’t consider censorship and humanitarian issues “antics” per se, it seems like Google is fed up.
We have decided we are no longer [...]
I’ve been blogging since 2001.
After a brief stint using my own PHP-based blogging platform, I started using an external blog host in 2002. Then in 2004 I started using MovableType, hoping to provide a more polished and professional-looking site. Back then, my writing was mostly technical in nature (mostly scripting solutions, hardware troubleshooting, and mini [...]
I received an invitation to start using Google Wave this morning. Ironically, this is mere hours after reading about JJT not wanting an invite. I don’t remember asking for an invite, but I am a frequent user of their other services. I had to dust off my Google account as it doesn’t allow you to [...]
With a few simple changes to a robots.txt file, the daily page impressions on one of my sites have more than quadrupled. The bottom line is this: don’t underestimate the effects of Google’s search results.
One of my sites gets steady traffic from Counter Strike addicts (and has for a few years now). In recent months [...]
Posted in advertising, archive, google, site news on May 17th, 2004
For reasons of personal preference and potential profit, this site has opted not to display Google’s image-based ads. Despite the option being made available to web publishers under the AdSense program, I doubt that I would see additional revenue from image-based banner ads.
Google’s decision to offer image-based advertisements as part of the AdSense program was [...]
The initial public offering (IPO) for Google has been the target of much speculation for some time. Various news sources have reported that Google’s IPO will be in the ballpark of $2.7B. Since I seem to be the technical guy on my block, I’ve had a handful of people ask me in the past few [...]
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