I have been blogging for a long time. 17 Years, to be exact. In my blog posts, I will often link to an image or somewhere on the web. This is a terrible practice. Here is why: I just downloaded a wordpress plugin to find broken links in my posts. I have almost 600 broken…
I had been testing for a couple of weeks and the winner seems to be ASmallOrange.com. Performance I used some ping services as well as anecdotal evidence from colleagues around the world. Orange performed consistently better. Price Orange is half the price of MediaTemple. It’s not THAT much money, but it’s enough to make a…
For the past few years, I have been hosted on MediaTemple. However, I kept noticing that the site would get slow or even fail to load sometimes. I kept trying customer support, but they blamed some issue that they claimed was outside their control. I don’t know if it was true or not, but I…
We are in an interesting time. A tweener. Native is when you build your mobile app using Objective C (IOS) or Java (Android) or Visual Studio (Microsoft). HTML5 is when you build a wrapper for your app in native code, but all of the functionality is built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (a.k.a. HTML5). Native…
I understand the economics of streaming movies. I know Netflix and Amazon and everyone else wants to get me to pay monthly to watch movies. However, there are two problems. I don’t want to pay every time. I already pay for DirecTV and don’t want to pay for another service. Internet access is not always…
46″ is just not big enough for our living room. We moved the couch forward, but that wasn’t a satisfying answer. I wanted more screen real estate. Here are some of my findings: Buying Experience I purchased from Best Buy even though I could get it for $100 cheaper from Amazon. I just wanted to…
There has been alot of movement in “responsive HTML” over the last 2 years. Basically, responsive means that the page will morph as the screen gets smaller. It changes to use the available space more effectively. All the way down to the phone browser level, it changes fonts, image sizes, padding, etc etc. All to…
I’ve had it with slow performance. I moved to MediaTemple Grid Service yesterday. Most of the move went smoothly, but I screwed up a little. Something went wrong with the MX Records and my mail wasn’t turned on for most of the day. Whoopsie! All fixed now. I took the opportunity to change some things…
I recently gave my Samsung Series 9 to my wife as a hand-me-down present. This left me without a new laptop. I obviously couldn’t live with that, so I had a choice. Either buy a new laptop or get one through work. The one I lusted after was the Acer Aspire S7. That thing is…
I don’t get it. DISCLAIMER: I never met Marissa and only saw some of her point of view at a conference and on television. I have never worked with her and have no experience with her leadership skills/style. Ok, back to the show: I don’t get it. Yahoo is in a pretty bad place. They…
I installed my third beta of Windows 8 on my Samsung Series 9. I am finally starting to see what Microsoft is thinking. Up until this point, I didn’t get it. It’s like Windows 7 but worse. What I realized in this last version is that it is highly intended to be used on a…
I just installed the latest Windows 8 on my Samsung Series 9 laptop. Much better than last version. I am still not a fan of Metro and I think the UI took a step backwards in many ways, but still an improvement from the previous disaster. The process was pretty smooth, except that it did a…
My hands are not small. My pockets are not small. I want a bigger phone. I don’t want to hold an iPad up to my head, but I do want a bigger phone. Here it is: The Samsung Galaxy Note. Apparently it will be available in Europe first this weekend. However, I would like it…
I made this page as a proof-of-concept for the Google Translate API. The Google Translate developer page was helpful, as was the jQuery wrapper for it. It was easy to implement and works very quickly. Unfortunately, the results stink. Sarah, who sites next to me, speaks Chinese. She says the results made no sense. Pavel,…