They consider a decade to be a short downtime. On the bright side, we’re over half-way through it. On January 1, 2005, AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 3:00 AM to January 1, 2015 3:00 AM Eastern Time due to system maintenance. Please note that your campaigns will continue to run normally during this [...]
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Archive for the ‘randomthoughts’ Category
Mac leaves the top off the toothpaste
By Lee on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | No Comments
I ‘m one of those Windows-to-Mac guys. The transition was pretty painless, for the most part, since I’m a geek. And, for the most part, I’m happy with my MacBook Pro. But it’s got these irritating habits that I think are the technological equivalent of leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube. No Home, End, [...]
Read More...The end of an era
By Lee on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
I opened my Mindspring account in 1996. I was later than some, to the Internet party, though way ahead of most. (I was on Compuserve and Prodigy before Mindspring, but I was even a Usenet user back in the late 70′s and early 80′s.) But Earthlink blew it. They lost a customer of 15 years, [...]
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...Sharpcast seamlessly syncs photos
By Lee on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 | No Comments
I’ve long thought that digital asset management for the masses is going to be one of the big challenges in coming years. Now that our personal photos, home movies, personal correspondence, and most of our productivity are stored on hard drives, the effort and expertise required to management, maintain, and preserve these important keepsakes are [...]
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