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How low can you go

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

How much value has been lost? This much…

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Blogsnow is back

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Sometime in the recent past, Blogsnow was resurrected. Hooray!

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Estimate your FICO

Monday, April 23, 2007

Dumb Little Man points out there is a free FICO estimator on bankrate.com. By answering a few questions about your credit habits, you can get a picture of where you fall in on the range of FICO scores. At the very least, it will help you figure out if you have anything to worry about.

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How much is your site worth?

Monday, April 2, 2007

Fun little app that calculates your site’s value:  My Site is worth$288 How much is your site worth?

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Is it safe?

Friday, March 23, 2007

Yes, it’s safe.

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Zeroization – Safe For Work Version

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Amusing

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Secure Gmail

Monday, January 15, 2007

Lifehacker has a tip for securing access to gmail (use https instead of http.) It’s nice that they have the capability, but not surprising that they don’t advertise it – secure http takes up more system resources than good old http due to the cryptographic overhead.

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Friendster’s Failure

Sunday, October 15, 2006

TechCrunch has an interesting piece on why Friendster failed where MySpace succeeded. I think the notion that Friendster’s bad architecture problem had a lot to do with it. Yes, it did suck and it was quite slow. However, look at MySpace – built on ColdFusion with significant failures of various functions. In my experience the […]

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Comparing the bittorrent clients

Saturday, September 30, 2006

I was surfing around wikipedia today and I came across this comparison chart of bittorrent clients. A cursory glance indicates that Azureus is the most full-featured of the clients. It’s also the one I happen to use.

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Identify a site owner by their Google Adsense ID

Friday, September 29, 2006

Google Tutor has a great little Google hack detailing how to find a website’s owner by using their Google Adsense ID. There’s also some sensible advice on using Adsense to drive revenue.

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