Sometimes I’m bothered by little things. For years I’ve taken issue with the common use of the word “next“. According to Dictionary.com, it has the following meanings: adjective 1. immediately following in time, order, importance, etc.: the next day; the next person in line. 2. nearest or adjacent in place or position: the next room. 3. nearest in relationship or kinship. adverb 4. in the place, time, importance, etc., nearest or immediately following: We’re going to London next. This is my next oldest daughter. 5. on the first occasion to follow: when next we meet. What frustrates me is when people misuse “next” in reference to a day of the week. For [...]
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FedEx deals well with a really bad situation
So, about three days ago, a video was posted to YouTube showing a FedEx employee casually tossing someone’s delivery (a computer monitor) over a fence. It is pretty impressive how care-free this guy seems to be. The monitor was in-fact broken as a result. In three days, this video has received well over 4 million [...]
Are your domains on GoDaddy? If so, are they still your domains?
Over the years I’ve heard many stories that have made me too afraid to ever use GoDaddy to manage my domain name registration. Here is yet another. It is likely that you’ll ever run into problems with any registrar, but it seems that Godaddy has more than it’s share of complaints. http://css-tricks.com/15377-this-sites-domain-is-stolen/
More about SOPA
Another good article about the dangers of United States H.R.3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), this time by Jeffrey Zeldman. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/say-no-to-sopa/
Why we should NOT Stop Internet Piracy
Ok, yes, internet piracy is bad. Yes. BUT frankly I do not trust the movie industry to be the judge and jury of the internet. The new bill is about as scary as they come. As described, it is trying to “To prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property, and for [...]
How a receipt can teach you about your business
Here is a great post from the makers of Thesis, a highly advanced WordPress theme. It talks about how a receipt highlights the fact that most business owners never look at their operations from the most important vantage… that of the customer. http://diythemes.com/thesis/credit-card-business/
How YouTube thinks about copyright
This Ted Talks video talks about how YouTube automates copyright protection… Very interesting.
Tour Rome with QR Codes
ARE0065 by Fabrice de Nola I found this to be an interesting use for QR Codes. It is a map of Rome with the codes set on specific, most likely touristy locations. You can find a detailed image of the painting here. Each QR Code, in this instance, links to a Wikipedia article. This is [...]
iPhone/Android App Idea: Grocery Comparison
Imagine you own a grocery store and one of the biggest advantages to your customers is the fact that you have the lowest prices. From a customer’s point of view, it isn’t a simple task to quickly compare prices between stores. It is time-consuming and often the stores don’t carry the same items. Many stores [...]
Got Dropbox?
Ok, this isn’t anything new but I was just thinking about how useful it is. It is called Dropbox. It could be as simple as an offline file backup… pretty boring, right? Wrong. A backup might be how you use it if you just have one computer. I have three computers (two Macs and a Windows [...]