Monthly Archives: March 2005

I’ve been using the Yahoo Desktop Search for a while now, enough to know that I am completely hooked on the desktop search idea. What I’m not hooked on however is the Yahoo application. So, just like Jeremy Zawodny (See: … Continue reading →

In this month’s flying magazine there is an article that talks about the danger of the Herd mentality. Or namely, how after one person does something, others will follow. This is so true I cannot even tell you. Take a … Continue reading →

Do you remember sitting arround in 1999-2000 talking about how the Stock market was going to crash? Do you feel like the same thing is going to happen with Real Estate? You betcha it is. Now granted, there is a … Continue reading →

This is a graph of Spam and Virus rejections for one 70 person company over the course of a week. That’s 130 messages a day on average per mailbox for a company without a web page. Spam is amazing.

I am amazed at how fundamentally bad customer service has become. I have a trial account with Broadvoice to experiment with a VoIP based phone switch which has been working great. Last night I found an option on their web … Continue reading →

DNS based geographic server load balancing (GSLB) just fundamentally does not work when you need to provide any sort of QOS on the service. Why? What happens when your customer is in Los Angeles, but their ISP’s DNS server is … Continue reading →

See: Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Bubble, Bubble.. San Francisco Chronicle: Up, Up and Away. Another month, another real estate record. Median prices for existing homes in the Bay Area hit an all-time-high of $569,000 in February, rocketing 19.5 … Continue reading →

See: The Hopeless Email Battle (by Jeremy Zawodny) I do the same things for Outlook and Thunderbird, and unfortunately there is no good way to manage the unread mess. I keep waiting for one of these email clients to come … Continue reading →

I was interviewed last month for this article in response to a new study that has found Windows to be more secure than Linux. What I tried to stress to the reporter that running Windows vs. Linux is only one … Continue reading →

It Pays To Read License Agreements How many times have you installed software without reading the company’s license agreement? This is a good article that points out some of the different pitfalls in modern EULAs, most imporantly what personal information … Continue reading →