Two days ago I said we should Googlebomb Rory with “fish pirate”. The result? Today I’m the #3 link on Google for Fish Pirate, and Rory is way down on the 2nd page. Sigh. I wonder if this means Google doesn’t put as much weight into link text and targets (the democratic nature of Google) as […]
I think we should googlebomb Rory with “fish pirate”.
I’ve been listening to TWiT for a while – not every episode, but lots of them. One regular character is John C. Dvorak, an unabashedly cranky geek, and chair of the Cranky Geeks podcast. I just watched a video stream of Cranky Geeks and I must say, John C. Dvorak doesn’t look cranky at all! He […]
My XBox 360 is broken. My first one broke on Christmas Day in 2005, and the second one broke just a few months ago in March. First one was three rings, 2nd one was a bad drive. This time it’s something new. It’s actually a problem I haven’t heard of before. The component video output […]
I have 19231 spam messages in my Gmail Spam folder – which expires messages after 30 days. Unbelievable. The sad part is there are also about 40 in my Inbox, since last night.
It doesn’t even seem to matter anymore if the headline matches the body of the article. The headline is linkbait – text designed to get you to click on a link to an article – and if it gets you to click, that’s all that matters. But when you resort to inaccurate link text, that’s […]
Google’s Referral Ads 2.0 are live now, and they’re an interesting variation on the usual ads. They’re presented almost exactly like traditional AdSense ads, but the ads that shown up are picked by the webmaster, either explicitly, or by keyword or category. Although the Recipes site has been up for a while now, Google was doing […]
I don’t use Windows Media Player 11 for much. I use it to watch the occasional video downloaded from the web, and to look at some of my own videos from my camera. I don’t buy music or any other content that I would require a license to play in Windows Media Player. So I […]
I’m having fun with Rogers these days, trying to get my Home Phone service working reliably. I can’t receive some incoming calls. It’s the “some” part that makes it difficult to diagnose, I suppose, but their process for dealing with this problem has been terrible. The problem is that certain people can’t call my home […]
This time, the same nit affects both OS’s. This is a vendor-neutral nit. Windows has UNC paths. UNC paths let you refer to a file using a simple syntax that includes the server, share name, and path within that share to a file you want. For example: \\myserver\photos\2007\bob.jpg This refers to a file named “bob.jpg” […]