Archive for May, 2008
“103,288,431 websites with nothing on…”
It’s the Bruce Springsteen song with a different twist. Of course when Bruce performed that song in 1992, the general populous wasn’t on the internet. I would make a guess that the majority didn’t even know what the internet was. Of course that all has changed. We use the internet everyday to buy, sell, inform, rant, rave, rate and surf.
The number at the beginning of this article is the amount of websites that are active on the internet today. Over half a million were registered today while 338 million were deleted and about 350 thousand either expired or were transferred (stats from Domaintools.com). While the average person surfs about 5-20 websites in a sitting, where do they go? Better yet, will they ever see your site and for how long?
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Just wanted to let people know that I was working on the site trying to get a plugin to work. It failed miserably and so I removed it.
I am looking for a good plugin to push my friendfeed data without a Javascript widget. If you know of one, let me know.
I also noticed that the WP-supercache was not working right. I tried to disable and it still wouldn’t update the site. I ended up disabling and deleting the cache files. Great program, but it really needs to understand when an update happens. I would post something, then go to the homepage and it wouldn’t be there. I tried to post a page, then delete and the page stayed. Not cool.
Speaking of Pages, I added a Feeds Page. Let me know if it’s helpful or not.
There have been some claims that the edge of a MacBook Air is so sharp it can slice and dice. This week we look closer at this….
I understand that Microsoft needs to move forward with their Operating Systems. What I don’t understand is all the hype that Windows 7 is getting. Especially for something that won’t come out until possibly 2010.
I remember sitting at my desk on the Windows 95 support team (yep, I worked for but never was employed by Microsoft) previewing an alpha copy of “Nashville” - technically it was suppose to be Windows 96, but the OS was revamped and then scrapped for 98. All I could think of while playing with the browser was “Why when 95 was doing so well?”
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Remember when you looked at the moon and your parents said “Yep, that’s made of cheese”. Well, maybe it’s a Wisconsin thing - I’m not sure. However I remember hearing stuff like that as a kid and wonder what the moon actually had on it that could help us.
It’s cool to be able to do the same thing for Mars. With the Phoenix making the “Perfect touchdown”, we might just get a glimpse of a planet so close, yet so far away. And maybe even answer the big question - is there really Amazon Women on Mars and when will they attack?
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Historical tech items we talk about:
The tabulating machine
Fire Extinguishers
H-Bomb
First Jukebox
Wang Computers
Steve Jobs
Charles Geschke
Jello
Plasma
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First of all I would like to wish everyone in the States a Happy Memorial Day. It is a great weekend for me especially because it ushers in the idea that warm weather is here. I can attest to that today as I have my first full head burn - except for my eyes because I was wearing sunglasses.
I have spent most of my weekend already at Bratfest - an annual festival that serves up the Wisconsin laiden traditional sausage. As some of you know I am not only a musician, but also a part of the music community with my other website, WIBands. It needs a major facelift, but the focus for the last couple months was for geekazine.
Anyway, we also had a week here. Announced the winner of the iPod / Zune. We picked the winner on uStream - so check the archives for that video.
I went to my favorite coffee shop today and found it was closed down. I couldn’t believe it… So I wrote a strip about it.
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That’s great, it started with video tapes, movies in the home at 8, Lenny Bruce is still not afraid. I remember when we got our first VCR. It was a Betamax and we had some of the coolest movies. Of course, the Beta went the way of the do do bird. Then it was VHS. Come and almost gone.
Now it’s the DVDs turn. Earlier in the year the big question was “Who was going to replace DVD’s: HD DVD or Blu-Ray?” Now we know that answer - but does it matter? Blu-Ray players really haven’t been selling like hotcakes and if you have one, you know that it’s not the fastest thing on the planet. The ultimate irony is that Sony owned Beta and lost to VHS. Now Sony won with Blu-Ray, but will that only be a small win as alternate formats are entering into the market?
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