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Latest Reader Comments Sat Jul 5 22:49:11 2008

Creative's Vado Video Recorder

2008/07/04

I never owned a camcorder. When I considered how infrequently I'd have any use for one, I just couldn't justify the price. Yes, I am a product of generations of Yankee thrift.

What am I doing here?

2008/06/27

I was waiting in the small lobby for someone to come down to fetch me. I had arrived early as I usually do, so I wasn't upset about waiting. I wouldn't have been upset anyway - I get paid by the hour whether I'm looking at pictures in the lobby or pecking away at a keyboard. I'm happy enough to wait and have enough random junk running around my brain to keep myself amused for hours after the pictures and magazines become old.

On-Line Poker for Cash Prizes

2008/06/26

As many regular readers here know, I love playing poker, and particularly No Limit Hold'Em. I've played at most of the big name on-line poker sites and don't like any of them.. usually because there are too many "all-in all the time" players.

Know your customer

2008/06/25

While food shopping last week, we came across a cart full of discontinued items. Prominent among them were a large number of boxes of Peace Cereal "Organic Hearty Raisin Bran with Crunchy Oat Clusters". My first thought was "Why are they discontinuing these and why haven't they sold?".

Power Hold'em Strategy

2008/06/23

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Daniel Negreaunu
Cardoza Publishing
978-1-5084-2204-8

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Hypermiling

2008/06/22

A Google search for "hypermiling" will turn up a lot of links about saving gasoline by changing your driving habits. Most of them are just common sense: accelerate slowly, try to avoid stopping completely (slow down if a light ahead is red to give it a chance to be green when you get there), use your speed control..

It's OK to use your brain when I'm talking to you

2008/06/20

This is a support situation from this week. It's real, though I've obfuscated some names to protect the innocent.

Chitika Premium

2008/06/19

I've written about Chitika previously. Their ads didn't perform as well for me as they do for some other sites, but I kept them for the odd filler and they do add a little money to my monthly total.. not much, but enough to keep running them now and then.

Smart Linux Shop

2008/06/17

I don't know a darn thing about Helios Solutions, but I know they are doing some very smart Linux marketing and I think their business model is one that could make excellent sense for other consultants.

Changing Primary Domain in Kerio Mailserver

2008/06/17

I've had this happen a few times when customers have more than one mail domain or have done their testing with a "localhost" domain. They change the primary domain and run into problems. Don't panic - these are simple to fix.

Small Form Factor PCs

2008/06/15

Index by Subject

Duane Wessels and Matthew Weaver
O'Reilly
978-0-596-52076-2

Is your website a lefty or a righty?

2008/06/13

I've seen a lot of nonsense around the web on the subject of left hand columns vs. right hand. Much of it is written by people who really don't have a clue what they are talking about. There are people who don't even know anything about basic HTML handing out advice about the mechanics of page construction.. and of course their lack of knowledge leads them to foolish statements.

I am Joe's Computer

2008/06/11

I remember first powering on at the factory, running through my diagnostics. I though that was all there was then, but soon enough I had a BIOS and found myself running through that code. Of course back then I had no idea what this was leading up to: I was just a young cpu, happy to execute any code I could find.

Review of Tribal Fusion for Publishers

2008/06/10

Tribal Fusion did NOT deliver good results for me. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't work for you. I know, for example, that many sites have good results from Chitika but that performed poorly for me also. Different strokes for different sites: what works well for me might not for you and vice-versa.

What I liked about Tribal Fusion

Thumbs up for ThumbsUP

2008/06/09

ThumbsUp is a free utility from Devon Technologies (they have several other free and not free products you may want to check out).

Hey Technorati - I give up!

2008/06/07

OK, Technorati, I give up. You break too often, and I just can't be bothered with you any longer.

Sales Taxes - why should I collect them?

2008/06/06

States are trying hard to find a way to get Internet sellers to collect sales taxes. The latest is New York demanding that Amazon should do it because although Amazon may not have a physical presence in New York, they do have Amazon Affiliates. I think that's a weak argument, but I understand New York's desire to collect the taxes.

But they aren't geniuses, are they?

2008/06/05

I suppose the folks who work at Apple's so called Genius Bars are nice people, reasonably familiar with tech stuff related to Apple products. I suppose a few of them really might qualify for genius status, either overall or just in regard to Apple knowledge. I would hope that most of them are embarrassed by this marketing nonsense.

It is going to get better, right?

2008/06/04

Right now there are untold numbers of lobotomized machines that unknowingly do the bidding of their masters, whether that is adding to our daily pile of spam email or bonding together with other compromised machines in attacks against more resilient targets.

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