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“Holy Shit!” That’s the sound I think you’ll be hearing in network TV boardrooms across the country for months and years to come… I’m an internet advertising sales person, and you know what’s the hardest thing to sell? Reporting. Data. Trackability of the advertising medium. Why? Because it’s damning to sell people advertising that’s as [...]

Gizmodo thinks Apple might create a tablet based on the reports of others… hmmm… interesting.

Jerermy’s had some fun with a guy that was stealing images from his website. Read all about it in Fun with mod_rewrite.

DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. [...]

Just an FYI: This IP address: 200.72.26.98 has been spamming my referrer logs… they’ve been banned.

Tom Coates wrote an article that says people don’t need Search Engine Optimization companies to help them get good rankings in Search Engines. I’d say that I disagree with such a blanket statement. A lot of companies do need SEO consultants as long as those consultants are trustworthy and will help those company’s build good [...]

You know that you’re from Texas if you know these things already: Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air. Roadrunners don’t say “Beep Beep” There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live inTexas. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live inTexas, plus a coupleÝno one’s [...]

I came home today… exhausted from a short but stressful week so far. My goal: Be drunk and/or asleep by 9:00 pm, on the couch, in front of the TV watching a good reality show (that’s all that seems to be on TV this summer). But, my Direct TV unit is having problems. I don’t [...]

A good rule to follow when marketing.

So, the news is out. We were holding off until our relaunch date of July 1, but we got scooped by a person we considered a friend… such is life. Look for a few changes with MarketingFix in the coming weeks and months. following up: Andy Bourland comments

Yes, I was right on one count, we got new G5‘s today (but my new Powerbook sources were wrong). My quick thoughts: The new enclosures are cool, retro type looking cases, that I’d dig owning. They meld with the brushed metal look of the apps. (now if only they sold a brushed metal display…) Frank [...]

This is an interesting tip from Mac OS X Hints: iPhoto has an undocumented “Rebuild libary” option. Press Shift-Option while starting up iPhoto to invoke it, and you will get a rather scary message about possible loss of data if there is any unreadable data. Clicking OK will allow you to select a new location [...]

From Kuro5hin: What is hypertext? It’s one of those things that make the web so wonderful, but how many of us have stared into the various, intricate patterns in the rich tapestry of hypertext and pondered them? We’ve certainly come a long way from the ‘ click here ‘ days of old. Interesting read… although [...]

Here’s an example of why: On the way home from a fun-filled weekend at a small town cook-off, the wife and I stopped in an un-remarkable corner store/gas station in small town, TX. We were really only interested in stopping for a potty-break, and possibly to pick up some refreshments. After using the restroom, and [...]

Seth comments about Apple: Apple is in the fashion business. Apple is Gucci. Apple is Calvin Klein. Very true… read the rest of the post for the context.

So, Apple’s going to announce a PowerMac G5 line next week (most likely), which I think’ll be pretty cool. I’m looking forward to hopefully talking the wife into letting me buy one by the end of the year. Interestingly (if karma holds through Monday), we already know the specs of the machines: The Specs according [...]

Noel Jackson wrote a good piece about URL syntax, that I think every budding web architect should read. As the saying goes in the field of real estate – Location, location, location. In the web development business the same applies, except location isn’t the only thing you need to pay close attention to. Location however, [...]

In a bar in Acuna called Mah Crosby’s I found myself not feeling any pain I told a Frisco girl I’d come for freedom She said she’d only come to catch a train We struck up some idle conversation Traded all the troubles on our minds One thing led to another in the evening And [...]

Heading to Acuna, Mexico this weekend to see a little Pat Green.

If a bra is an upper topper titty flopper stopper and a jock strap is a lower decker pecker checker and a roll of toilet tissue is a super duper doody pooper scooper, what do you call a Japanese drummer boy whose father has diarrhea? A slap happy Jappy with a crap happy pappy. I [...]

I almost wrote about the G5 rumors the other day, then I figured, why bother… hell, McMinute didn’t post anything about the G5 until today and even then, all they did was point to an eWeek article that was published yesterday (no corroboration on MM’s part), and the hard(er) rumors with facts have been coming [...]

I read a thread over at MacMinute’s forums today, that directed me to ResExcellence’s excellent Safari Hacks pages. I had no idea there were so many graphical hacks for Safari… I love how easy it is to hack Apple’s UI.

Kalsey says it best: Dear Client, Netscape 4 is now six years old. Could we please stop catering to an old, buggy browser that is incompatible with all other browsers? Thanks. I mention it in full, as my web dev department asked our internet general manager just today if we could drop Netscape 4.x support [...]

If you use Outlook XP as your mail client, you’ve likely run into the problem of having bad addresses show up in your auto-complete options when you’re typing a new email to people. It’s usually really annoying, and there’s no way to really fix the problem from inside Outlook XP that’s intuitive (to me at [...]

PhotoStack 1.1 is out… great application. If you’re interested in having a cool, super easy to use photo gallery, download PhotoStack and then say thanks to Noel.

Fantastic article here about getting more than you’re used to out of Google. Examples like: Using the * with a pipe and quotes: “Google has * my life” | “Google * my life” Quick read too. [via JD]

You know, competition is good for the consumer, or at least that’s the argument the government used against Microsoft a while back. Today, that means that Brent has to watch his back. Shrook has been released, and I’ve downloaded it to play with. The cool thing is that I’ve already paid for NetNewsWire, so I [...]

I visited a few sites today, and got really annoyed at Windows Media Player for OS X. The first site was Yahoo Movies, and a trailer for American Wedding (hat tip to Jerermy for pointing it out). The movie looks great, but Yahoo Movies only offers a WMP or Real version of the trailer for [...]

Yesterday, we hit the Guadalupe River in New Braunsfels, Texas, for some fun in the sun. We got up around 9 am, and everyone gathered at our house (there were about 10 of us hitting the river for the day). My buddy Josh made some gourmet breakfast tacos for everyone, and after eating and picking [...]

Years ago, major web-sites were ‘re-launched’ every year or two, and some were relaunched as often as every six-months. This often resulted in major usability changes for a large group of core users that ended up sounding very vocal to the designers and managers of those websites. Today’s approach is to no ‘re-launch’ a website [...]

Here is a fantasticly written story about teamwork and the effects on it from on high. read it. commentary later.

For the past week I’ve been pretty busy… here are a few things I’ve read recently and needed to blogmark: MT Medic [via Pat Berry] Interesting graph on SARS Let’s Make a Cell-Phone Deal – I’ve done this. It works. More from ArsTechnica. Working with Forms in PHP, Part 1 and Part 2. Great information [...]

I just read JD’s version of his latest OJR article. JD’s got some great information there about uptake of digital editions, as well as great information about how other company’s are using them. Good info. Also, it’s interesting to see the author’s draft of the article, and the final edited version side-by-side. Thanks JD.

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” — John Wanamaker