Monthly Archives: December 2005
This the third straight year of decline in Hollywood ticket sales. Sales are down 12.6 percent from 2002. More and more analyists are starting to wonder if it’s a permanent trend, and what the cause is. I don’t know where…
We had some spam problems last week, one of them caused by a form that wasn’t properly escaped. While that problem was fixed, the real problem was that it was hard to figure out what script had the issue. To…
Decided that I didn’t like having a main "blog" page as well as a main "home" page, so now they both redirect here. Oh, and of course I have this fancy new layout. The picture above is from our houseboat…
Adtech discovered that IE users are four times more likely to click on an ad than firefox users. Digg users debate this in the usual fashion, and most people say it’s because of Adblock. I installed Adblock, but found the…
Well, I got tired of dealing with a couple little issues with Blogger, so I decided to install WordPress and host my own blog. It’s not too bad of an application. It has categories, which are definately handy for me…
Something that seems to be missing from searches is time. Search engines base their results on relevancy, which makes finding newer methods of doing something difficult. For example, I will search for how to do something in linux, like configuring…
I was just reading that Kingston is about to get 1,500 "smart meters" to monitor electricity, water and gas. There are a number of benefits – from ending the the monthly "estimated" bills (and then charging more/less a few months…