A few days ago, I received a new Onkyo receiver and speaker system, which is something I’ve been wanting for a long time now (even longer than a new TV). Having 5.1 surround sound is fantastic, both for movies and music. Unfortunately, it also introduces yet another remote onto my already cluttered coffee table. That [...]
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My feeble attempt at a Blackberry
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
I have been salivating over Blackberry’s ever since I seemed to be the only person not to have one. While I don’t do tons of communication, I love to be connected (oddly enough, what prompted me to write about this today was the massive Blackberry outage that has been going on for the past twelve [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
My company recently decided to add a message board to our website. We have a very nice email subscriber base, but wanted to increase usage of the website simply to develop more of a community. So this past week I researched some free software, installed it, and configured it. I paid special attention to security [...]
Google’s Website Optmizer
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
So this is cool: Google just released yet another free tool, this one called the Website Optimizer. It’s built into Google AdWords (those “sponsored” links you see on the side of Google searches and on various websites). It focuses on the ability to do A/B ad testing, which simply means presenting a potential customer with [...]
A dim Outlook
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I finally made the switch. After reading a Lifehacker article which included a poll showing the vast majority of readers use GMail over a desktop application, I decided to peruse the comments and try to figure out exactly why. One of the first comments that caught my eye was that you could in fact use [...]
