Countdown to 1000

February 28, 2006

Just a little note to say that as of this post, I am 7 away from 1000 posts on Technosailor. :-)

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Finally I know what a “Favicon” is.

February 28, 2006

Don’t worry, I didn’t know what the heck this meant either.
I found this one on “A VC”.
I have noticed that many blogs have icons that appear in their feeds and in the URL field of the browser.
So I decided that I wanted my blog to have that feature too.� I thought there was something I [...]

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Will Microsoft Origami fold into a pretty shape or be a messy paper ball?

February 27, 2006

The GoGo articles are about products and services that will make your life easier and more productive.
Recently, a video leaked onto the net about the Microsoft Origami project. You know that firm will never do anything for Microsoft again. Some is getting fired for leaking this one.
The video seen here, is looking like a Tablet [...]

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Blog Tagging

February 27, 2006

Another article, entitled Tag You’re It! Leveraging Tagging For Your Blog has been published in Darren’s Blogging for Beginners series writeen by yours truly. If you’ve been a Technosailor reader for awhile, you know that I’ve written on the topic of tagging before, however Darren approached me to write an article on the concept [...]

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Thoughts on Advisory Capital – The bridge between VC’s and Advisory Boards

February 27, 2006

Last week, Stowe Boyd wrote an an article on the concept of “Advisory Capital”.
In summary he calls it a “fusion of the best of both the venture capital and advisory board models”.
I have a different take. I call it “the bridge between venture capital and advisory boards”.
For the rest of this entry I will refer [...]

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Great new blogs on 24

February 27, 2006

For those of you who can’t wait for each week to reveal the next hour in the "24" hour day, I came across the coolest collection of blog posts dedicated to 24.
It is called Blogs4Bauer and you should check it out. I found it from a link on Brad Feld’s site, Feld Thoughts.
"I need to [...]

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WordPress 2.0.1 Posting Bug

February 26, 2006

I’ve squashed a bug in WordPress 2.0.1 that has been preventing our bloggers from posting reliably. The write up on the fix is as follows:
For the handful of you that are running WordPress 2.0.1, there is a bug that is causing bloggers to not be able to post. I’ve done some research and squashed [...]

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The Problems with Windows Vista is Windows

February 26, 2006

A priceless screenshot of an error message taken from Windows Vista. Hat tip: Duncan Riley.

These Programs are causing Windows to Start Slowly:

Host Process for Windows Service (svchost.exe)
Windows Explorer (explorer.exe)
Microsoft Software Licensing Service (SLsvc.exe)

Update: Conversation regarding Windows Vista problems continues here as the comments have been closed on this post.

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The Blog Herald

February 25, 2006

My good friend Duncan Riley has sold The Blog Herald a blog about blogging, the gossip of blogging and the who’s who of the blogosphere. This was coming for awhile and the sale has been much publicized through a high stakes public auction, a deal, a collapsed deal, another public auction and then a [...]

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Let’s do some Bible math

February 24, 2006

every once in a while I happen to find something in the Bible that I find really interesting. This last Sunday was one of those times.
The sermon was bit dull, so I opened up to the beginning of Genesis and began to read. When I got to chapter five I noticed something interesting:
It gives [...]

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Blogger Perks

February 24, 2006

It’s not money, but anyone who doubts that blogging can serve personal benefits need to look no farther. Thanks to my involvement with some of the folks at b5media, and my blogging in general, an offer was passed on to me to sample a Sprint phone and Sprint service free of charge for 6 [...]

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