Leave it to Google to come up with something cool and useful (and addicting). The latest is the Google Blogspot Player that lets you browse the latest pictures on blogspot.com, Google’s user blogging site, to quickly figure out what’s out there. I’m easily entertaintained, so it is fun to discover this and the few hundreds […]
There’s a lot of good things on the internet. It’s mostly bad, but it’s not all bad. Anyone can find just about anything, mostly free — offerred as a trial, in small portions, or have a tricky terms & conditions. But some can be used gratis with little or no acknowledgements, those are the gems. Recently I’ve been looking for […]
As a sysadmin, I can identify with the IT guys at Cisco having their main website down for an hour (so far), today. It’s happening during the business hours, which just makes it worse since everyone’s awake and watching. I can see them panicking and scrambling behind the scenes, while their managers and business owners are screaming at […]
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting quite a bit of solicitation to buy my amid.com domain. There’s something interesting to ponder there… what’s so special about it? My last name is Amid, so the domain is very useful for my family and I. Are there corporations with the same name? Is there a rich […]
Digg rarely goes down, at least to my recollection since I use it almost daily throughout the day. So to my surprise at 9:30am (pacific) it was “Out of Service”, albeit a quick one. Could digg suffered its own Digg-Effect? Nah… probably just a quick maintenance like purging old posts or something. I’m sure we’ll […]
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