They’ve announced what some of the launch titles will be in the XBox Live Marketplace for the XBox 360. Some cool stuff in there: As for the initial Xbox Live Arcade titles, these have now been locked down, and purchase prices are almost entirely in the 400 to 800 points ($5 to $10) range. Games […]
I wish DNS was a little more centralized. I mean, it’s cool that it’s as distributed as it is because that’s what makes it so reliable, but being in Canada, sometimes I want to register a .ca domain, and that means dealing with a different company. I use Yahoo! Domains in the US, mainly because […]
Like everyone else on the planet (judging from how slow the service is right now), I signed up for Google Analytics today and put their tracking code in the header of some of the sites I run. It takes hours before you can see the results of the tracking so I can’t say anything more […]
I have a number of websites that I run. One of them, the Restaurant Thing website, gets a lot of traffic and has quite a few outside links to it. Another, the Ottawa Events site, has no links to it save the ones on this very blog, and it’s not linked to very much, so in Google’s […]
I’m a loyal Canadian. I enjoy Tim Hortons, and don’t mind the Canadian Tire guy. But as Canadians, I think we need to get the message across to Americans that we’re not all that much different from them, and not that far away. Why do I say this? Because one too many times I’ve been […]
It’s been kind of fun watching the Ottawa Events site grow in traffic. It’s gotten to the point where I refer to it myself when I’m trying to find out what’s going on this weekend – which was my goal for the site in the first place. I know this sort of thing has been […]
When you first install Tomcat, there doesn’t seem to be any account configured with admin rights. This keeps the default install secure, but of course the first thing you’re going to want to do is log in to your new installation with admin rights. To grant the tomcat user admin rights, edit conf/tomcat-users.xml. It starts […]
TailRank seems to promise what I was trying to do with the Long Tail of the Blogosphere site, in that it tries to help you discover long tail content.. but the content it shows you is sorted by the number of incoming links. Entries with no incoming links don’t seem to show up. What makes […]
It’s disappointing to see Dare say that RSS Bandit would stay as a .NET Framework 1.1 application for at least a year, maybe two. Why do I want RSS Bandit to be a .NET 2.0 application? I’m not exactly sure. It’s probably similar to the reason that people wanted Win32 apps when Windows 95 was […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has some good news for us: Here’s good news for women who love coffee: Drinking it doesn’t seem to cause long-term high blood pressure, a study suggests. Yes it says women; but I’ve seen similar studies mentioning these benefits for men as well. But for some reason, women in the same study […]