Is 500 million a lot?
Facebook is, apparently, rapidly approaching 500 million users. What does that mean? Well, numbers like these are a little hard to imagine, so I’ve tried to put it into perspective.
Tag: internet
Mass CC vs Reply All
You have no doubt been exposed to a pointless long series of emails from people you’ve never met as a result of one person disregarding common sense etiquette and exposing everyone’s email address for all to see. Yes, you should rant at them, and those that you know who unthinkingly click the dreaded reply-all button.
Workload Insanity Past
A little graphic demonstration of my computer usage over the past month or so. Stupidly excessive is a phrase that comes to mind.
Dare not though profane in Amazon
Amazon has user profiles, which I totally didn’t know about. They also let you describe yourself. However, be careful what you say or you might be guilty of profanity.
It’s working. I don’t know why it’s working.
I hate it when this sort of shit happens. You’d think computers and related technology would be creatures of logic and habit. They most definitely are not.
Ireland vs Cambodia: Setting up a net connection
My previous experience in getting net access covered two continents, today I hopefully will add a third continent to that list. Mostly I’ve had net access set up in Ireland and my net connection in Canada back in 2001 is a distant memory (the main memory being that my 2001 Canadian connection was faster than […]
Why is buying things so difficult?
Seller: We have a product;
Buyer: I’d like to buy it;
Seller: You could buy it, but first we want to see how many hoops you’ll jump through;
Buyer: pardon?;
Seller: jump doggy jump;
Obfuscate and Prosper?
Ebay confuse me. Throughout my recent creation of a listing for an as-new RME Fireface UC I was told my ebay costs would come to 37 euro. When I received payment, said amount was deducted from me by PayPal. All appeared to be well. This morning, about two weeks after that sale, I was surprised […]
After the Deadline for Firefox
I recently wrote a review of the elegant WordPress plugin called “After the Deadline”, which is a fantastic tool designed to help you write better articles on your WordPress-based website. The great news is that this fantastic functionality is now available for writing anywhere on the web through a simple Firefox Extension. …we’re pleased to […]
Google Apps phases out support for IE6
Another death-knoll for IE6. Hopefully the lingering user base will continue to rapidly decrease for this ancient browser. The more high-profile sites that continue to drop support for this browser the better. I will feel more and more confident in placing a warning at the top of sites that is shown to IE6 users only […]