Digging My Blog

A friend of mine, Brian Campbell , (our former intern at Sharkbytes) recently lauched a new site and had this to say: Hey everyone- i wanted to share my newest website with you all. It's called GotCast and we provide online casting for television. More importantly, there are a ton of hot chicks with...

I have used IPChicken for several years to quickly figure out what my public facing IP address is. I know that isn't very geeky, but it is very "webby" - maybe I'm more of a webophile than a true geek. But enough of my self-analysis... for me it was all about ease. It is very easy for me to remember...

I like the post Seth Godin made a few days ago: Memo to the very small . I, too, believe that we are in the midst of change. Well, at least it is much easier to create an online presence today than it ever has been - especially for those that are very small. Of course there have always been inexpensive...

Business Ethics - yeah like the final Academic Decathlon showdown scene in Billy Madison - it appears that some people may not know what they are. Or maybe they just choose to disregard them. On the heels of an announcement of Best Buy being accused of using a secret website (via Seth Godin ) to pull...

I'm an avid reader of Rick Segal's blog, The Post Money Value . I'm don't read any other start-up blogs or VC blogs, but I like Rick's writing style and point of view. Because of his Microsoft background and VC interest in technology and specifically the web a lot of the things he has to say interest...

I have been in the web business for about 10 years now. Over that time I have spent a lot of time looking at competitors' sites. Anytime a site, good or bad, has a link on it to who developed/designed it I will follow. Curious by nature, I usually just want to see who did the work and what kind of work...

"Because newer is not always better" There is an FTP program that I have been using for years (since about 1997) and therefore I have become very comfortable with it. It is one of the first things that gets installed on each new computer that I own or borrow. I like one particular older version (about...

My Forecastfox Firefox extension stopped working a couple of minutes ago - it keeps asking me to login. I don't remember having to create an account when I downloaded and installed the extension and I don't see any username/password fields when I open the options for the extension. I'm a...

No, not me, silly! Seth Godin is offering a conference-call Q&A session on Friday, September 8th that will last "all day" if necessary. Rather than paying a fee to attend, he is asking that you buy 11 copies of his new book, small is the new big , from Barnes and Noble. The first 31 to send him a...

An interesting story about DreamHost being publicly, brutally honest . Read the comments, they are funny... it seems that mistakes and moments of incompetence are understandable and even forgivable as long as you are are honest. Keeping your customers in the loop will make them loyal beyond belief. ...

Today I started a new blog site: TheBestWebStuff.com Along with building web sites I have also become the unofficial system administrator, software installer, hardware installer, network technician, and basic troubleshooter for all my friends and family. Over the years I have put in many hours helping...

Like there was ever any doubt. I am Beer! I don't need to get totally wasted when I hit the bars. More of a social drinker, I just like to have fun with my friends. And as long as the beer keeps flowing, I'm a happy camper. But I have to remember not to mix things up: "Beer Before Liquor, Never Been...

Last week I picked up a copy of Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin. I have a slight interest in SEO, however I try not to get drawn into it too much because it can really eat up your time and I prefer programming. There is a lot of data gathering, data analysis...

Jonathan Coulton's " Code Monkey " is freakin' awesome (via Matt Hawley ). Check out the video on Tra5hTa1k , too - it's just as cool. I hope they do come up with a t-shirt (check out the poll), I like this version ....

I followed this link from Seth Godin's blog to a Firefox extension for Squidoo. Now, I don't know much about Squidoo, but this comment about the extension is priceless : Slow - by Berni ______, March 19, 2006 5:37pm Looks as tho' could be useful and interesting but seriously slowed down my computer had...

A few weeks ago I went through the exercise of downloading and setting up cruise control on my dev machine along with NAnt and some other tools (more on this later). The night before last I spent about 3-4 hours optimizing by build scripts to make them more portable and fine tuned a few things. Yesterday...