Come On Tell Me Off
Circa 1996, after the demise of Landslide, I briefly formed a band called Jr. & The Logic Bombs, with Pete Dekoker. Dan “Scoop” Miles was supposed to be the drummer but we recorded one song with Billy Wallace. I can’t remember where we recorded it, either at Paul Venno’s place or else it was Ted Treibner‘s,
In either case we ended up releasing it on 3.5″ floppy drive. To get the file small enough, we did it in mono and called it the world’s first “hypertext-mono-floppy-single”.
Pete wrote this and sings it. We used call songs like this “Dekoker… Read the rest
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The Era of AAPL is Over
I got a few comments from my “Tech Pair Trade of the Century” post awhile back along the lines of “Short AAPL? Good luck!” and “Long RIM? Good luck!”. So it was with interest I noted this week (13F week, when all the “big boys” file their 13-F’s with the SEC) that two very large [...]
The Ron Paul Farewell Address
This is the most important, relevant and germane speech since Eisenhower’s farewell address. Before you dismiss people who espouse “liberty” as nutters and kooks, before you silently acquiesce to the today’s “status quo” and hand the bill off to your …
Facebook won’t let me unlike Walmart?
The other day I noticed that “Wal-Mart Canada” had somehow appeared in my “Likes” list on Facebook. After “unliking” it, I posted the following to my facebook page:
Interesting. Walmart was in my “Likes” list.
I don’t like Walmart. In fact I once hired a personal assistant just so I could stay out of places like Walmart. Now we just use some place that delivers, like Grocery Gateway – it’s more expensive but hey, it keeps me out of Walmart.
So it’s odd that Walmart would be in my “likes” list. Unless you mean “I Like Not Going To Walmart”.
… Read the rest
Who are the Best Domain Registrars?
Lifehacker is doing another"Who is the Best Registrar" survey, and of course we've been out there tweeting and #fb-ing for everybody to head on over there and vote….for us Of course.
But it got me thinking this morning, shameless self promotion aside, who are the best registrars out there? Aside from us, I mean.
A few come to mind:
Hover.com: Hover really nails simplicity and streamlining things, and in fact they've sat down with us and helped us streamline some of our processes. Because we are so "DNS-centric" we sometimes over-complicate things… Read the rest