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fortitudehosting – an other “get rich quick scheme”
A few days ago I received the following email: Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2007/03/month-of-php-bugs-started.html which would be great for a text link to my client, a web host certifier. What I am looking for is a small text link, web hosting, and if you keep it for at…
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Augmenting user interfaces
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Media you can get for free
Some time ago I’ve written about (commercial) software which you can get (legally!) for free. Now I’m writing about the media you can (legally!) consume on the “Intertubes”. There are of course the well known players like Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and so on (although some of those are not available outside the USA – a…
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Financial markets
Lately I’ve been reading about financial markets in general and equity markets specifically. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve certainly picked up some things. What surprised me is how “distant” some elements of these markets are from reality. For example: stock is easy to understand – you get part of the ownership of…
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A cuddly little penguin
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Clearly labelling your products
We’ve just bought a small digital camera and it came with two AA batteries. I was wandering if they were rechargeable. The text on them wasn’t really that clear, it said something like “may explode if recharged inserted improperly”, which left me wondering: do they mean “inserted improperly in the charger” or is a comma…
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Gone Fishing
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What I’ve been working on lately
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Wikis or blogs?
One of my readers commented that he thought that people should use wikis rather than blogs. I agree with him (for the same reasons he mentions). The ideal CMS (Content Management System) for me would look something like this: On the basis it should have a wiki. I often write tutorials, and the main characteristics…
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Google Fu, or: you are not as anonymous as you think