Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Google Analytics (redux)
My friend Scott had this to say
If they can figure out which sites have the best sales conversions, stickiest content, etc etc, then it gives them amazing prospecting power. They’ll not only know who LINKS to who, but how many of those links are actually USED, when and by who. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology, google by Steven
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Amazon vs Dymocks - a disturbing comparison.
I’ve been eying up a rather large set of books in recent months
Yes, Shelby Foote’s 3 volume tome, ‘The Civil War’.
Whats been putting me off is the price, at $AU69.95 per volume and with three volumes its a little on the expensive side.
So I had a look at Amazon yesterday, and to my delight, they [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology, australia, life by Steven
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Think twice about visiting Harvey Norman…
Read this article on crickey.com.au, and you’ll see what I mean.
Sounds like a lovely chap…
No Comments » - Posted in australia, life by Steven
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Russians mine moon for He3
Woohoo, fusion for all - next stop FTL travel: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17943650-13762,00.html
Of course, its not going to happen, but we can hope!
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Steven
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Choices…
Today I was playing with setting up RoundCube - the webmail / IMAP client which I’d just discovered.
It soon became apparent that I needed to setup a subdomain and mysql db, so I ran through doing that with the dreamhost control panel.
As I waited for dreamhost to do its thing, clicking refresh every 30 seconds [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology, australia, life by Steven
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Google: don’t be evil (unless its profitable)
Useful discussion here and the article from google here There are plenty of sides to the story, but history tends to judge harshly from a moral standpoint those not willing to make a stand on this sort of thing. Western nation’s compliance in the persecution of the Jews in pre-WW2 for instance.
But then I suspect Google [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Steven
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Telstra Mobile Data and my new phone…
I just got a second hand Sony Ericsson 910 from work.
It’s got lots of bells and whistles and its almost addicted to the internet, it just won’t stop connecting and it even seems to surf real sites very easily - this blog for instance seems to convert to mobile usage quite easily!
Except….
Its obscenely expensive…. How [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Internet Oddities, Technology, australia, life by Steven
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Is eating chocolate before 12pm a crime?
One of my wife’s friends has recently returned from england and brought back our favourite thing: 7 bars of Galaxy chocolate!
I just ate the rest of a bar, and its not even lunch time…. not good.
I should be raking leaves, concreting, putting washing on, writing code, uploading latest release of a private project…
I need a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in australia, life by Steven
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Google Analytics…
Well, I’m waiting patiently in line for my google analytics invitation: http://www.google.com/analytics/progress.html
Do I need detailed statistics? Hardly, www.herod.net received 3 hits yesterday, and my blog got about 4, so why do I want google statistics?
Because:
Its free
I’m curious
Right now, a team of google sys-admins are unpacking new servers, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology, google by Steven
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Oh Phuleeze!
Google has passed Intel and IBM to become the world’s No. 2 most valuable technology company after Microsoft.
Shares of Google, which runs the most-used internet search engine, rose $US15.53 to $US443.03 on the Nasdaq Stock Market yesterday, giving the company a value of $US130.9 billion ($A174.2 billion). That compares with a market value of $US128.3 [...]
