Archive for May, 2005
· May 30, 2005 at 2:15 pm · Odds & Ends
How come the more expensive something is the uglier it gets? Maybe I’ve just been living a low class life for way too long. If this thing is suppose to be pretty though, I don’t know if I want to be right!
The Tulip E-Go Diamond notebook is inlaid with solid palladium white gold plates in which thousands (80 carats) of top-quality, brilliant cut diamonds have been pave set with surgical precision. The magnificent end result also incorporates a unique square cut ruby set in both Tulip logos and costs 283,000 Euros (US$355,000).
Without the bling, the E-Go (short for easy going) computer is even more innovative, using overmolding to enable fabrics, leather, wood, and metals to be incorporated into interchangeable, lifestyle-oriented covers that enable the laptop “look” to be changed on a daily basis as a fashion accessory. The original idea arose to develop a product from the perspective of a woman that at first glance looks more like a fashion accessory than a notebook.
The resulting product is an elegant handbag with numerous novel features. The enclosures have been designed and developed for six fabric and leather laptop versions, a foretaste of what will become available in October 2005. In addition to changeable/personalized covers, the product is also expected to feature complementary accessories such as design bags and mice.
For some reason I just don’t want diamonds on my computer… Maybe I’m just a little too macho for my own good.
· May 29, 2005 at 9:36 pm · Odds & Ends
First things first you have to go check out this mock IE Web site to see how the designers made it look like the Mozilla Firefox Web site. This has got to be one of the most amusing things I’ve seen in a while. Funniest thing is that it is all true.
Internet Explorer - We Discover the Web!
Popup Blocking
Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with IE’s built in popup blocker (SP2 only).
Tabbed Browsing
Screw that. It will only confuse basic users, so instead of making it an option, we just didn’t implement it at all. Oh wait… there goes our browser market share. Our next release will have tabs.
Privacy and Security
You think we got security holes? That’s just because people are always gunning for number one. Take a look at that article up there. Now that people use Firefox, magically it has flaws too.
Fits Like a Glove
We know exactly how big your hand is. Well we at least have a pretty good idea. I mean, come on. We do control your entire operating system already.
S, M, L or XL—It’s Your Choice
As long as your choice is Microsoft’s choice.
A Developer’s Best Friend
Because all the developers work for us. And we pay them… so they’d better be our best friends.
One of the main things that angers me about Internet Explorer is the fact that it seems like Microsoft thinks it owns the Internet and should control how it looks to everybody. Instead of following your basic Web standards, they have a bad habit of just making up code that only works in IE so that anybody else on the outside of the Internet Explorer world has to conform or get out of the way.
· May 29, 2005 at 9:36 pm · Odds & Ends
The newest edition of the Web Hosting Show is up and ready for download. Now for those of you wanting to know what the short messages about no Web Hosting Minute and no new show next week were all about, let me explain.
Right now I need to:
Take a break for a little ‘bit. I am burnt out right now. Since this show started, it has pretty much been the only thought in my head. I need a little vacation for my mind so that I can get things reorganized. Right now the production for this show takes me at least a whole day to get done. With a little break time to re-think how I get much of the show done, I think I can take that down to a few hours at least.
So please tune into the newest edition of the Web Hosting Show, let me know what you think and I’ll be back on June 13!
· May 23, 2005 at 12:19 pm · Odds & Ends
Episode 14 of the Web Hosting Show is ready for download so go get it, listen and let me know what you think. This week I added a few more transitional songs between segments. Hopefully this will make for a more pleasurable listening experience. As with my original tunes, the rest of the Web Hosting Show’s themes were provided by Dezyner Records. Dezyner Records has really been pumping out some nice music there so if you haven’t checked it out, go do so now! They have been more than helpful with the Web Hosting Show’s production.
Things just keep getting better each and every week. I have a few more possible guests lined up for the next few weeks. The new Web Hosting Minute segment has been getting rave reviews. The only thing I could ask for is for more folks to tune into the show! In the past week well over 200 people have downloaded and listened to episode 13 of the Web Hosting Show. At this same time for the first show, I had about 20 people downloading and listening. Hopefully that shows you the popularity rise has been going up, but I will never be happy with the numbers till everybody on the Internet today is listening. What can I say? I shoot high.
Interesting enough, my inteview with DemoDemo.com’s Vito Ceniti has had over 200 downloads as well. So if you are interested in getting on the Web Hosting Show, you really have no excuse not to. I’d love to have you on the show no mater what side of the Web hosting world you live on. Are you just a client? Come on in! Are you a Web hosting provider? You are welcome too! I’m all about just having a little Web hosting fun.
· May 22, 2005 at 5:39 pm · Odds & Ends
I stopped doing full-text feeds a while back without much ranting and raving about it from those who are pro full-text feed or anti full-text feeds. So for the most part I’d have to come to the conclusion that you as my reader do not really care. After seeing something that Chris posted about why full-text feeds are dead I felt like I wanted to go a little deeper on this topic myself.
Personally I love syndication! I have my feed reader packed full of some of my favorite Web sites. Some of them provide full-text RSS and some do not. I find myself reading those that do not do full-text RSS more often. What? Am I crazy?! Well, let me explain.
I don’t think that RSS is a replacement for getting content out there to the people. It is not a replacement, but it is a helpful tool. It helps me scan headlines to see what was posted where and gives me a tease to see if I am interested in reading it or not. You see even with having all my favorite Web sites in one place, I still don’t have time to read all the content that is posted. So with those Web sites that give me non full-text feeds they are trying to sell me on reading the rest of the article.
They have a few lines to wrap up what is in the article in a nutshell. Think of it as reading the back of a book before you decide to read the whole thing. You do not just pick up any old book and read it front to back in one sitting, do you? No. You read the back cover, learn what it is about and in your head you decide if that interests you or not. Just think of partial RSS feeds as that flipping over to read the back cover of the book. It teases you into reading the rest of the article or you put the book down and pick up another one.
Now the second reason why I do not use full text RSS feeds is the reason that Chris Pirillo explains in his write up about the topic. I too have problems with link farms picking up my content, linking it and trying to make a name on the fact that they can do so with little to no problems at all. You see they used to just plain cut, copy and paste my articles onto their Web sites. These days though, by adding my RSS feed into the trouble making Web site they don’t have to do a thing. Then fresh content is delivered to them daily. If I had full-text RSS, I’d be loosing visitors to my Web site because they would be stealing my content. As a content provider that doesn’t make me happy.
I hate the mentality out there that content providers are all multi-millionaires that can afford to not have ads or make any sort of revenue off their content. For every person you have out there who is blocking ads from a Web site, you have a Web site with good solid content shutting it’s doors because they can’t afford to keep things up and running. Yeah, I make revenue off of my blog Mitchelaneous and the Web Hosting Show. I do so by putting up a few Google Adsense links up. Why? The reason is just like everyone else, I need to make money to survive. Good looks and boyish charm only goes so far these days. Eric Rice brings up the point that this is why folks are looking to put ads in RSS. As soon as I can advertise in my RSS feeds I am going to do so too. Why? Let me put it this way.
A shoe maker makes shoes, right? Then where do I have the place to take away his hammer and nails and tell him I’d rather see him make his shoes another way. That’d be rude, wouldn’t it?
· May 20, 2005 at 11:40 pm · Odds & Ends
You’ve all been waiting for it and now it is out and ready for the public. Peeper… the movie! Hope you enjoy!
Just in case you haven’t checked it out, I also uploaded a new picture of Peeper. It is intresting to see how big he has grown over just a few weeks. Well I say he, but honestly I don’t know what sex it really is. Won’t know till he gets fully grown. However it is just easier for me to call him a “him” for some reason.
+ Peeper, when he was born!
+ Peeper now!
Now don’t you wish you had a pet goose?
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