Monthly Archives: April 2007

The Day of Silence

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In case you had not heard, there was a call for a day of silence in the blogosphere out of respect for the folks who lost their lives in the Virginia Tech massacre. Personally, I posed the question to readers over at Outside the Beltway last week and received some very interesting opinions. I was undecided about whether to participate and inadvertently, I nearly did. It had nothing to do with VT and more to do with the fact that we have a new hire today. Continue reading →

NFL Draft Predictions

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Today is the first day of the NFL draft 2007 and I’ll be following it closely and doing a bit of live blogging over at Suicide Fan. In addition, we’ll cap the draft day 1 off with a podcast with David Kindervater, credentialed NFL press and podcaster, from NYC at the end of Round 1. Due to timing, the show will be released tomorrow morning. Questions? Comments? Leave your message at 443-450-4646 or at mailbag@suicidefan.com. Continue reading →

What's in the Toolbox?

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Everyone in any industry or career has a set of tools they use to do their job. My job is a little odd in that I have my hands in development as well as systems. A developer can say I use these sets of tools while a sysadmin has different needs. I have them all.

So, inspired by posts awhile ago by Westi’s Windows WordPress toolbox and Mark’s Mac/Unix based WordPress toolbox (both of which describe workflow for using subversion and creating patches), I give you my WordPress-and-sometimes-not-Mac-and-Linux toolbox. Continue reading →

Alexa's Irrelevance

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Matt is complaining about Alexa turning off their API, for all intents and purposes, and turning itself into a walled garden. My question is does it really matter? Does Alexa really matter?

I love going to industry events and listening to PR people jibjab about Alexa rankings and using it as a metric of popularity and the fact of the matter is that it is a bogus metric meant for a tiny cross-section of people who have Alexa’s spyware. Unless someone has Alexa’s toolbar (which by the way is still only supported officially for Internet Explorer), then visitors are never documented. Continue reading →

I Really Screwed Up

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I really screwed up and before you all get mad at me, please accept my apologies. I just did the unthinkable, and something I have been angry at others for doing – I mass invited my entire Gmail address book to Facebook. Great, if you want to join and mark me as a friend, then my fragile ego will be happy. However, if I just spammed your inbox with an invite, please do accept my apologies.

At least I know I’m in good company. Jay Allen did this with Stumble Upon and caught a lot of heat himself.