November 2004

According to Wired Magazine digital recording company TiVo, has buckled under to the pressures of Hollywood and will start to allow advertising into the boxes (news). The ads will take the place of the “thumbs up” icon already shown while you bypass commercials. Perhaps even more insidious is the plans to integrate Macrovision copyright protection [...]

Ok I’m an internet marketer, and I’ve recently left my day job to go out on my own (see Nothing Stays Constant but Change). As my buddy Thuringwethil pointed out my blogging frequency has also increased as a direct result of that change. I also spend a lot more time reading other forums and [...]

Talk about having an identity problem. It seems MSN’s Search Engine Blog doesn’t rank it’s own beta search engine (query results). The query works just fine over at Yahoo and Google. Credit RustyBrick over at SEO Roundtable for spotting this one (blog post). Just in case they fix it he’s got a screen shot.

Notice the size of the box
Notice the size of the packaging
Notice the size of the actual product

Sad, very sad indeed …

Ok, my bad for forgetting to mention this earlier. Seth Godin is offering his book “The Bootstrappers Bible” for free. You can download it for the next week.
I am a bootstrapper. I have initiative and insight and guts, but not much money. I will succeed because my efforts and my focus will defeat bigger and [...]

Now class repeat after me … your RSS Reader is not a bookmark ….
Ok, so I did actually know this, but I marked some feeds in my reader as important, knowing at some point I’d comeback and read them and bookmark them properly. Well today when I went back they weren’t there, my free RSS [...]

NASA set an unofficial speed record of 7,000 MPH today with the experimental scramjet X-43. The most amazing part of the whole thing is the X-43 has no rotating engine turbines like conventional planes, instead it uses the shape of the airplane to “scoop” air and mix it with hydrogen for fuel.
NASA X-34
Yahoo News
LATimes.com

The Secretary of State for the first George W. Bush administration resigned on 11/15/2004. Colin Powell was decorated 4 star army general who was head of joint chiefs during the first Iraq war. After the war concluded he seemed to have had enough support to make a second career as a politician including possibly a [...]

If you remember back a few weeks when Google launched the Google Desktop Search (see Google Invades Personal Computers) I wasn’t a big fan of it for privacy/security reasons. Well it seems if you work in corporate/enterprise level and use a VPN you may well have a problem (news).
Actually I’m in agreement with the [...]