Category Archives: Misc.

Spottt needs to filter their categories

I’m trying out Spottt which describes itself as;
a free way to trade links with other like minded sites.
Spottt’s categories are somewhat generic, ‘business’, ‘fashion’, ‘pets’ etc., the closest thing to web development was ‘tech’ so I chose that category. However 50% of the ads for ‘like minded’ sites involve pictures of women in various forms [...]

Network Solutions sucks ballz

My habit of using Network Solutions to check the availability of domain names then jumping over to GoDaddy to buy them will have to stop. Whenever I get an idea for a site I brainstorm a bunch of domain names by checking availability/similar names through Network Solutions because, despite their outrageous prices, they have [...]

Blogging for Dollars

Entrepreneur magazine has an interesting article on John Chow who has a blog on making money with a blog, whatever he’s doing must be working as he makes $25,000 a month!
Chow has also assembled his income-earning techniques into a 59-page web book downloadable at johnchow.com. Make Money Online is free, but it still makes money [...]

Zazzle cancels my order

I thought I might be able to sneak this design through but no luck as it uses the Firefox logo. Too bad it would have made a pretty sweet shirt.

It’s derivative of the old USSR Coat of Arms for those of you born in the late eighties.

The Big Idea

My credit card company has a new site where you can win $10,000 if your idea is voted the monthly winner. I’m not too sure the risk/reward ratio is good enough to put your idea up on a public site (maybe lock down a trademark and submit some patents first).
My favorite show lately is The [...]

Droid Sans Mono funk dat sh!t, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono!

It’s thanksgiving eve so I was being super productive by surfing every blog known to man when I came across one of my favorite topics, programming fonts, which is so nerdy that it occupies it’s own brane.
And while Droid Sans Mono doesn’t suck as much as Courier Mono it can’t even touch Bitstream Vera Sans [...]

1 Out of 4 Homeless Are Veterans

I try to keep this blog free from my political views (go Ron Paul!) but this is one topic that never gets enough coverage in the news. You may have noticed that at the bottom of a post’s permalink page I have an appeal to donate to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, today there’s [...]

Google Mapping the Santiago Fire

My house is to the west of the old El Toro Marine base, not in danger from the fire but it’s not too pleasant outside.

View the map

What I did on my summer vacation

Read the “The 4-Hour Workweek” on the plane to and from Paris, the chapters on productivity alone are worth the cover price. The wife and I ate at restaurants for each meal yet still both lost weight, something is seriously wrong with food in the US and A.

Paris was great but the highlight of the [...]

The end of the loadbar?

Looks like we’re on the verge of a rapid increase in the speed your web app can be delivered.
Comcast CEO Shows Off Super Quick Modem
Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits [...]