While surfing around today, I discovered a really cool utility called Sonic Memo. An enterprising guy named Jay Jennings created a series of very basic Flash applications that have one simple purpose: play streaming audio files on a website with very intuitive and easy-to-use controls. I wish I’d thought of it myself. The KISS (Keep [...]
Many websites that have been designed to continuously monitor specific events use an automatic refresh to ensure the most recent data is visible. This is usually accomplished either through a REFRESH META tag in the HTML header, or by using JavaScript to set an elapsed time after which the page is refreshed. Other more complicated [...]
As of this Sunday, RR… will have been up and around for two and a half years, a quarter of my goal achieved to keep some form of journal for ten years. This just happens to be an on-line version that everyone with a browser has access to. A lot has transpired since its inception, [...]
I’m paranoid when it comes to the Internet: email, surfing, downloads, shareware, everything. And I’m not exactly a newbie when it comes to anything computer related. Last night I scanned my system with LavaSoft’s Ad-Aware and discovered ClickSpring’s MediaTicketsInstaller lurking on my computer, proof that even I can get viruses and spyware on my home [...]
Yesterday, a comment was posted on RR…, supposedly from John Torrey, CEO of Shareyourexperiences.com, in response to myriad comments left by other visitors that the Share Your Experiences organization is a scam in the same manner as the seemingly defunct Word of Mouth Connection.
Unfortunately, I believe that John’s reply is just another set of lies [...]
First of all, I take spam very seriously. Since I get about 40-50 spam emails per day, I’ve established a few procedures I use on a daily basis that help reduce the amount I am personally exposed to:
Reduce the spam:
Trust no one. If I’m on a website that asks for my email address in order [...]
I keep getting these stupid scam/spam emails that say:
Someone has just begun to research your background via our website. This email has been automatically sent to you so as to make you aware that your background is being looked into. The popularity of our website is currently growing at a very rapid rate. If another [...]
I picked a random set of websites to check the Google Toolbar’s ranking of popularity. Essentially, the ranking is a number from 1 to 10 that Google assigns to any particular website. Most are zero, because most websites are lame, unpopular, and worthless.
I’m curious as to how my sites rank compared to major websites.
Here’s a [...]
The following contains excerpts from (and is very much based on) an article by Noah Masterson that appeared in the online rag Rush Magazine way back in 2000.
I am easy to track down. Type my name into any search engine and you’ll find enough pages to choke a hippo. Try it: Google • MSN • [...]
I spent the car ride home last night thinking of ways to tell my wife, some funny, others blatantly to the point. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, since I’ve experienced it four times in the last year and a half.
“I’ve been wanting to spend more time with the kids anyway!”
“Now I [...]
