Posts in category "Odds & Ends"

Quick Thoughts for 12.28.07

Celebrate the New Year As we close in on the end of one year and the beginning of the next party plans are being made which usually includes the drinking of copious amounts of alcohol while we dance the night away – well for some anyway.

For me and my wife it will be another quiet night of enjoying each other’s company and watching a good movie or two.

Company Cultures :: Alfred Thompson – a very interesting post about multiple cultures within a corporation rather than the typical thought of it being mono-culture.

Adobe Spying On Its Customers :: Techdirt – a heads up for all those Adobe CS3 users out there about how you are now a part of a data stream being feed to a behavioral analytics company called Omniture – whether you like it or not.

How Pursuing Software Piracy Hurts Proprietary Software Firms :: Techdirt – another good post from Mike Masnick at Techdirt about how BSA and SIIA are actually hurting the very software companies they are suppose to be protecting from piracy.

Dave Winer: Creator of Worlds! :: Eye on Winer - EOW is having a great time dissecting the hot air that is being blown around Dave’s newest innovation (also here, here and here)


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Quick Thoughts for 12.26.07

Pass the wine please - it's party time Another Christmas is done and the wrapping is filling up the landfills around the land. Now we all begin the ramp up to celebrating the coming New Year; and the hangovers the next morning, and throughout the blogosphere we see predictions of this and predictions of that. Lists of every kind can be founded littered about that are as likely to come true as those resolutions we all commit ourselves to at this time of the year and we all know how well they turn out in the bright light of New Years Day :)

Digg Traffic Has Questionable Value For Most Niche Publishers :: Scott Karp – a good synopsis of the value of being on digg.com especially for the more focused niche blogs.

Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much? :: Erik Schonfeld – an overview of the whole uproar over the security issues surrounding Google’s recent Sharing feature that was enabled

How to Share Items in Google Reader and Still Keep Them Private :: Steve Rubel – and on the flip side of the Google Sharing nonsense we have Steve showing how you can have your cake and eat it to.


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The price of popularity

The new breed of Apple user

Given the recent popularity of apple related postings here and abroad the blogosphere I couldn’t resist posting this cartoon.

Original Cartoon by Ctrl+Alt+Del


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Quick Thoughts for 12.22.07

Best wishes to all I just finished sitting with my grandson putting together an early Christmas present just in case he isn’t around on the actual day. Well, 250 pieces later and he was in Spiderman toy heaven even if he did wander off in boredom to watch a movie leaving Grandpa to finish putting it together alone.

It might have taken 3 hours but the great big grin and and thanks Grandpa made the aching back and stiff legs all worthwhile. This is what Christmas is all about.

Macs are even more expensive than I thought :: Dave Winer – guess Dave isn’t too happy with what he sees as Apple ripping off their customers.

Don’t let Cigna get away with Murder :: Douglas Karr – Douglas give Cigna a hauling over the coals which they rightly deserve.


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Quick Thoughts for 12.21.07

Peace on earth..... In this ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly we can see the very best of who we are and then we can also see some of the things that bring tears to your eye both good and bad. Even on the great free flowing Internet we can see this goodness in the form of the Frozen Pea Fund (our thoughts are with you @susanreynolds). As with all things though we also can read about the callousness of a healthcare company to approve a young girl’s liver transplant hours after she died (Cigna’s Profits – thanks Karoli).

Digital Certificates: Do They Work? :: coding horror – Jeff Atwood has a few thoughts about those fancy security certificates that web sites use to make us feel safe.

Apples For The Army :: Andy Greenburg (Forbes.com) – see even the US Army is hopping on the Apple bandwagon.


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Quick Thoughts for 12.20.07

Someone please put the old guy out of his misery As I get older I find myself dreading this time of the year more and more. Besides the fact it drives up the stress levels it has become more about who can give the biggest and the most expensive presents. Not to mention the fact that every stupid driver in the world seems to have hit the roads and are desperately trying to prove just how stupid they really are.

The Death of Digg (or Why Social Media is Not all What It’s Cracked Up to Be) :: Martin Neumann – glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks social networks as they stand aren’t what they seem .. and definitely nothing to be getting excited over.

Ad Blocking Hypocrites :: O’Flaherty Blog – you go Paul … I’m right behind you on this one.

Who Will Be The First Tech President? Help Us Endorse A Candidate :: TechCrunch – when I first read this my first reaction was that Michael was getting a little full of himself. Then I realized that he was right and I guess if there is anyone who can give this the publicity it needs it will be Mr. Arrington

It’s Time To Wean Ourselves Off An Unhealthy Addiction To Copyright :: Techdirt – Mike Masnick has an interesting post on this whole Hartwell photograph rigmarole that has lit a fire under the tech blogosphere this week.


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Not bad eh..

WinExtra site news Well it may not be all that important in light of world and blogosphere events but tonight WinExtra crossed the unique visitor count of 100,000 visitors; with 209,972 page views, which you can see in the Stats section of the right hand sidebar near the bottom.

All this has been done in under a year as the counts were started in February of this year. I wonder where the counts will be on the anniversary date. My thanks to all my regular readers and to those that just dropped by to read a post or two.

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Quick Thoughts for 12.19.07

Don'tcha just hate it. It’s a miserable day out there with a mixture of wet snow and rain depending on the temperature fluctuations. Either way it made for a miserable walk downtown and back.

My New Facebook Strategy and the FB Power Level :: Mark Cuban – an interesting post of the value of friends on Facebook and how to possibly make the whole thing actually work for you.

Day 1267: Klingons Around Uranus :: Gorgeous on Life – make sure no drinks are in sight when reading.

Technorati Lacks Authority :: weblog tools collection – some well reasoned points why Technorati needs to rework their ranking algorithm

Kissing Google’s Knol :: Andrew Keenin his mind Andrew equates Google’s move with Knol to be open war against Wikipedia and thinks it is a good thing


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