Microsoft has had a pretty rough time the last few years. Steve Jobs innovated like a mad genius and came up with the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. That’s alot of ground to cover and Microsoft has not been able to keep up. At best, they tread water. However, Steve Jobs is gone and I…
One day, if I have a hundred million dollars, I am going to fund the following initiative: The Do Your Job Proposition From now on, all California propositions, initiatives and ballot measures will have an additional choice besides Yes and No called “I Don’t Know”. If the measure does not receive 51% of the popular…
I have been trying lately to speed up the performance of my blog. Steps so far: Remove about 25 plugins I really didn’t need. Remove plugins from my wife’s and brother’s blogs Switch to the TwentyTwelve theme Still, I was getting CPU throttling from my host. It still wasn’t fast enough. I didn’t install a…
It’s such a pain to move to a new host. DNS changes. Import/Export of WordPress. Debugging. New security. Redirects. Let’s face it, it’s a huge hassle, so I need to have exhausted all my options. Despite the fact that I am pissed off at BlueHost for not having a faster server for me, I am…
I have been feeling for quite some that the performance of my blog was dragging. I just implemented a new plugin to do caching and it seems to help a little. However, the internal tool, where I type and do publishing is slow as well. Obviously, I want things to be speedy. For the last…
It’s like you are on camera 24/7. When do you have time to make a mistake? When can you daze off or pick your nose? When can you say to someone “You are an asshole”? and then come back later and say you are sorry? It’s a non-stop, never-make-a-mistake business. It’s amazing that people want…
Brain … drained … Dreamforce was it’s usual crazy self this year. Marketo was a Titanium sponsor so we had great space and neat perks. For instance, we got great tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in San Francisco. Great show. In hindsight, I should have moved to the center of the stage,…
I started my blog by calling Bullshit on a fake marketing effort. (May 27, 1997) The blog post was called a diatribe by the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post and of course C|Net. I thought it was ridiculous to fake a hacking to get publicity. These days, fakery has become an art. Create a fake video…
I spent last week on a cruise from NYC to Florida to the Bahamas. I had never been on a cruise before, so this was a new experience for me. I “sailed” on the Norwegian Cruise Line Gem, seen below. The Good Many times, just being different is good. A cruise is unlike a “fly to a…
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I was a charter member of America Online in 1989. My cousin and I shared an account called “Freeness”. We had tried CompuServe before that and used some dial-up BBSs, but AOL was much better. Much better at downloading free software, that is. In 1992 (college), I started playing games on the internet. They were…
Sometimes you just can not look away, no matter how ridiculous it is. I just lost 5 minutes of my life to this little kid and her family. Watch and kill a few brain cells. http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/here-comes-honey-boo-boo/videos There are an awful lot of people out there who are just like this. I am no saint, but man, this…
I have a personal philosophy that I thought of in high school and has been my friend for 25 years. It’s call the Karma Bank. Here is how it works: When you have things in your life that make you unhappy, you are depositing Karma into the bank. This Karma will earn interest (not very…
Ebb and Flow is the natural course of life. Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down. However, these rhythms play with our psychology in a negative way. When life is throwing your curve balls you tend to think it’s just going to get worse. When things are going well, we often think something bad is going…