| Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 3:06 pm Tags: Blogging |
Want to know why I’m in New York today and Toronto this weekend? Just take a look at the temperatures! And I bought a big overcoat for this trip. Should have brought the sun screen.
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| Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 2:39 pm Tags: Blogging |
Enough time off. It’s time for news…
The horseshoe manufacturing machine was patented on this day in 1835. The first jukebox was installed in 1899 at the Palais Royal Hotel in San Francisco. Life Magazine published its first issue in 1936. The zoom lens was patented in 1948. Dr. Who was first broadcast in 1963.
Happy birthday William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid. Harpo Marx and Boris Karloff were also born on this day.
- Talk about bad taste – a game released yesterday on the anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, JFK Reloaded, recreates the killing with the player as Lee Harvey Oswald. To make matters worse, the game costs $10 to play, there’s $100,000 in prize money for the player who re-creates the exact timing and angle of the shots that killed the nation’s 35th president. Ick.
- That 10 year old grilled cheese sandwich reputed to feature the image of the Virgin Mary (looks more like Madonna than The Madonna to me), sold for $28,000 on Ebay. The winning bidder? Online casino Golden Palace.com.
- Google is being sued by an adult website saying the internet search engine’s image search is delivering thumbnails of its girlie pictures.
- Google has filed a lawsuit of its own against a company it claims is fraudulently clicking on its own banner ads to make money. It’s the first lawsuit over click fraud. Google says that Auctions Expert International signed up to display Google ads and then fraudulently clicked on the ads to make money.
- Microsoft poo-pooed Finjan’s report last week that a malicious web site could bypass the browser warning and download bad stuff to your PC. The hole in Internet Explorer even affects Windows XP systems with Service Pack 2 installed. Now that a French web site has posted demo code, Microsoft says it’s working on a patch.
- It’s good news, bad news for Tivo. The company ended its third quarter with 2.3 million users. That’s more than twice what it had a year ago but it still lost money in the quarter. Seems 61% of Tivos are sold through DirecTV, and Tivo only gets $1.30 a month from those customers. Steep marketing expenses helped boost Tivo’s losses to $26 million last quarter, more than three times the losses of a year ago. Revenue was down 11.4%.
- Apple shares have hit a four year high riding on ipod sales. An analyst at Piper Jaffray says the halo effect is real – his research shows that ipods end up selling people on Macs. He’s increased his price target to $100. The stock is currently over $61.
- Two new virus threats: the Skull trojan affects phones based on the Symbian operating system (like the Nokia 7610) and for the first time a web banner advertising site has been serving up the MyDoom virus. The site was hacked to serve the virus instead of its ads. No telling how many people were affected.
Listen in this morning at 6:45a Pacific for my weekly news commentary on KGO 810 AM in San Francisco.
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| Monday, 22 November 2004, 8:54 pm Tags: Blog, Ecto |
If you can read this it means that Expression Engine now works with Ecto! Woo hoo! That removes the last obstacle to a five star rating for EE, the software that runs this blog.
I first found out about Expression Engine from Kevin Rose. I’d been looking for a new content management system for Leoville. 
I looked at Mambo (too elaborate), Plone (overkill), WordPress (too simple), and Postnuke (too fanboy) among others. EE was just right, and after a six months of use I’m even more impressed with the software. It’s robust, powerful, and easy to use. And with version 1.2 it supports the Blogger API (and a new gallery feature which I’ll try when I can come up for air in a few weeks). Thanks, Rick!
I’ll get a newscast up for you and a post about the cruise with pix ASAP.
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| Saturday, 20 November 2004, 7:39 pm Tags: Alerts |
Good news! Amber and Andy will be joining me at my appearance and book signing at Indigo’s Queensway store in Etobicoke. Sunday December 5th from 11-2. Now it’s a must for anyone in the Toronto area!
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| Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 7:37 pm Tags: Camera Phone |
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| Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 7:27 pm Tags: Camera Phone |
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| Monday, 15 November 2004, 8:06 pm Tags: Camera Phone |
Note to self: always bring a power strip to the airport.
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| Sunday, 14 November 2004, 9:30 pm Tags: Camera Phone |
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| Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 11:14 pm Tags: Camera Phone |
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| Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 11:14 pm Tags: Camera Phone |
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