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Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
Using Xara Xtreme to create a web site
By Lee on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | No Comments
Thanks to Xara Xtreme, I’ve just created what is by far the most attractive web site I’ve ever created in my life. Unfortunately, however, it has a couple of problems. First of all, in order to inject PayPal buttons into the site, I had to do the export to .HTML and then edit the .html [...]
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By Lee on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | No Comments
For years now, I’ve been managing my email, fighting spam, and spotting phishing emails through the use of an email routing system that I developed. The problem with today’s email system is that anyone can put email into your inbox without anything more than your email address. Yes, you can put things like filters, whitelists, and [...]
Read More...The pain of finding a domain name
By Lee on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments
I know why Web 2.0 brings with it all the groovy spellings and made up words like Flickr, Friendster, and Facebook (and that’s just the F’s). It’s because the damned cybersquatters have already registered every decent English word and phrase you can imagine. There’s nothing left for the people who are actually trying to do [...]
Read More...What an accomplishment!
By Lee on Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | No Comments
Who ever would have thought that moving a blog could be such a major endeavor?! For about three years, I’ve been running my blog on Pebble, a Java-based web app, running in Tomcat. For some reason, though, Pebble sort of lost its mind many months ago. I’ve been unable to post, or I could post [...]
Read More...The era of the disingenuous recommendation
By Lee on Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | No Comments
We live in a time when peoples’ opinions have become suspect. I was just looking through my Amazon wishlist and noticed a pattern. Most of the marketing-oriented books have five-star reviews. I remember the launches of a few of those books. There was the push to drive the book to #1 on Amazon through concerted [...]
Read More...The Problem With The Internet
By Lee on Monday, June 4th, 2007 | No Comments
Did you ever wonder what the problem is with the Internet? Well, you’re in luck, because I’m going to tell you. No, it’s not that it’s too slow. It’s not that it costs too much. It’s not that you can’t get broadband on your wristwatch. The problem with the Internet is that it puts us [...]
Read More...Did you know about this TLD???
By Lee on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | No Comments
I was reading a milk carton this morning (I had already finished the cereal box and spotted the strangest URL I had ever seen. It said organicvalley.coop. I thought “What a poor proofreading job, to put a nonexistent URL on your product package.” Well, it turns out that there’s nothing wrong with their proofreader. That’s [...]
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