Okay, for those of you who don’t have 11 year olds around to explain it to you: H1N1 Flu = Heinie Flu = Butt Flu. Yesterday, not a nice time. This morning, again not so nice, but this afternoon feeling much better. My tips, which, of course, shouldn’t take the place of real, trained medical advice. Stock up on the ibuprofen – this thing brings with it killer headaches, and even worse, astoundingly painful muscle and joint aches. My advice:…
Yeah, we’ve got a house guest this week, hailing from Mexico, it’s the Swine Flu, or at least that’s what the triage nurse says. Other than being really tired and really sore, I apparently have a fairly mild case. I’m working, but doing so from my home office to help save my coworkers from the fun and games. So I probably won’t be posting this week…
I’ve had a few launches recently and a few of them are worth mentioning. The Afternic Domainer’s Advantage – this is a knowledge center for use by Domainers, which is fully integrated with the AfternicDLS.com site. For those who aren’t aware, Afternic is the world’s largest premium domain marketplace with over three million domains available for sale. The Domainer’s Advantage site is a fairly standard WordPress installation that makes use of several fairly standard plugins. Special features: Integrated news feed…
A new WordPress release came out last night. Unlike the previous, this is what they are calling “a hardening release”, i.e. it is generally designed to make the code base more secure, but doesn’t fix any known vulnerabilities. As with all minor level releases, I suggest you update as soon as possible, if for no other reason than to stay current. From their blog: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within…
I’m a geek. I like new software, hardware and am generally predisposed to liking new shiny tech stuff. As such, I’ve really been looking forward to Windows 7. Deep down, I’ve been struggling with my inate desire to upgrade to Windows 7 on my various home machines, and leaving them as they are. Some are older machines, which technically should be able to run Windows 7. Everything I’ve heard about Windows 7 is that the program is very much the…
It’s such a tired story that I’ve basically stopped writing about it. Another set of buyouts at a major newspaper, which will be followed by mandatory pink slipping to get the staff down to a level that’s sustainable…for now. Let’s forget about the status quo, as the situation for newspapers is still in transition. Rather, let’s look forward. What is a sustainable staffing model/cost structure for you if you needed to subsist on online revenue alone? Partnerships – what kind…
My name is Mark and I’m a Red Sox fan… Not much can be said about yesterday, a truly epic failure that will leave Red Sox reliever Jonathan Papelbon firmly in the goat seat for the next year, for the most part undeservedly. Let’s face it, without him, the Sox would have been playing golf last week, not tasting the joy and sorrow of post season ball. In early August I posted a simple message to the #redsox Twitter hashtag:…
I’ve got a commute to work that takes over an hour…with traffic, it can easily become two hours. Rather than listen to talk radio, I listen to podcasts. Remember them? Sure you do…they were popular a few years ago. The other night my daughters derisively referred to a television show they scanned past as “that’s something Dad would watch…” Funny how I never realized that they saw my viewing choices that way before… So, for in hopes that some of…
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission issued it’s first change the policy on endorsements in over 30 years. From this point forward, if you accept any form of payment for a post, you need to disclose it. PCWorld.com sums it up: Bottom Line: If you receive gifts, money or any other type of compensation from a product manufacturer or service provider you have to disclose it. For the record, it’s always been my policy that if there’s any possibility of conflict…
Some fun facts for this wonderful Monday: 94% of all email traffic is spam, according to this article from the New York Times. Think about that – 94% – if you were to round that off, you might as well just say that all of it is spam. InformationWeek estimates the cost of spam in terms of lost productivity has reached $21.58 billion annually. ISPs have used the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 to try to sue to recover the cost…