Archive for December 2006

Comparing the wrong apples

Dec 31st, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: Technology, The Social Web

Everyone believes that the reason that Google is the search monster it is is because of its algorithms; but while that may have been the case in the beginning it amounts to a very minor reason today. Sure Larry and Serge built a better mousetrap and wrapped it up with an interface that followed [...]



Sunday Afternoon Security Roundup [12.31.06]

Dec 31st, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: Technology, The Web

Of course the main security news this week was security flaws being found in Vista - like that was going to be any surprise. Not to mention the report out that the uptake of Vista has been slow to non-exisitant. As far as I am concerned this was just a plain stupid report given [...]



Out in left field

Dec 31st, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

I was out surfin’ the wilds of the internet earlier looking for a WordPress plugin when I came across Zero Boss. I then proceeded to loose the next hour or so as I read through Jay’s humorous posts that had an irreverence that tickled the warped side of my nature.
Like just about every blogger [...]



Turning points…

Dec 30th, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

While I have been at this computer thing for a very long time; mostly as a developer and maintainer of the WinExtra forums (previously NNTP newsgroups), I guess I have only been a serious professional blogger for the better part of six or seven months.
Sure I fiddled around with various incarnations before that time [...]



Is there really any depth to blogging?

Dec 30th, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

Every once in awhile Robert Scoble comes out with a very thought provoking statement; whether he realizes it at the time or not, and one of his posts today contained a paragraph that struck me right off as something really worth thinking about:
It’s hard to clear space just to sit down and analyze what [...]



Saturday Afternoon Browser Roundup [12.30.06]

Dec 30th, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Web

In a week that was more pre-occupied with potential vista security flaws and some minor jealousy over who got laptops from MS, AMD and Acer there sure wasn’t much going on in the browser world.
Optimized Firefox 2.0.0.1 for G5 and Intel Macs - BeatnikPad
I had a bit of time between jousting with other frantic [...]



Google pimps itself and you’re surprised?

Dec 29th, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Web

Unless you have been living under a rock it is a well known fact that Google; the worlds search darling, makes copious amounts of money from its AdSense to the point that Sergy and the boys can sell enough shares on a regular basis in amounts that almost every person in Canada could retire [...]



Parting shot at Ferrari ethics

Dec 29th, 2006 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

I just have one last thing to say about the utter stupidity that has been written about the Microsoft, AMD and Acer promotion of passing out a Vista loaded Acer Ferrari laptop.
On the one side we have those who have gotten one and disclosed the fact; plus what they plan on doing with said laptops. [...]