My technical meanderings and other nonsense. Published since 2002. No, really. I'm *that* internet-old. I remember the days of Twitter user Vaspers wrote a good blog post listing the 7 reasons NOT to Twitter. I find it right on target with many of the initial complaints coming from the anti-Twitter population: Narcissistic Message Speed Reply Velocity Message Brevity Message Anonymity Addictivity Dangers Promotional Lethargy Here are a couple of quotes that stand out: You’re [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Indirect link sharing
Indirect link sharing: Link to the source, not someone else’s interpretation of the source. I’m becoming quite tired of being linked to someone else’s opinion of the source, rather than the source itself. An example is a recent post on Daring Fireball, which is titled, Jackass of the Week: NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker. Upon clicking [...]
Email Read Receipts: good or bad?
Michelle recently asked me if I could help her test email “read receipts” for a tutorial she is writing for work. She sent me an email, and once I verified that I opened it, she waited to see if she got a “read receipt” response sent back to her. She didn’t. And it’s because I [...]
Leopard: Waiting is a virtue
I haven’t purchased OS X Leopard yet, despite all the noise on the web regarding it. Everyone has their stories of how they purchased it, what works, what doesn’t, etc. In fact, for an avid Mac user, you’d think all this “talk” would increase my excitement and force me to go out and buy it. [...]
Host assets on different domains
According to this Sitepoint article, it’s wise to host your web site assets (images, JavaScript, CSS, etc.) on different domains, in order to increase the number of parallel downloads, thus decreasing overall load time, and making your visitors happy. Ideally, you should create sub-domains for your assets. For this site, I’ve created the domain assets.matthom.com, [...]
FOX can die a bloody death
I find FOX’s Taco Bell promotion during last night’s World Series game 2 to be utterly appalling. In fact, it’s the final straw for me even attempting to watch a game on this pathetic excuse for a sports network. Can FOX make this anything less about baseball, than they already have? Oh that’s right. Their [...]
Using affiliate links: good or bad?
John Fitzsimmons has a good post today about affiliate linking, in which he debates whether it is appropriate (or moral) to use links that provide a monetary “kick back” for each click-through. He mentions using Twitter to share links, and considered using LinkShare to generate a “kick back” on links that other Twitter followers click [...]
Desktop sharing with Zoho Meeting
Desktop sharing is an incredibly useful approach for collaborating on ideas, holding presentations, or simply accessing remote computers. The concept is simple. A single computer acts as the presenter, allowing others to “see” the screen. From anywhere in the world, meeting participants can log in and view the presenters’ PC. Control can even be granted [...]
Auto-forward missed calls: AT&T, T-Mobile, more
I learned a nice tip today – how to automatically forward phone calls using AT&T, T-Mobile, and many more. Just call this sequence of numbers from your mobile phone: *61*1234567890# … where 1234567890 is the 10-digit number you’d like all missed calls to forward to. I’ve heard some carriers don’t allow this, but I’ve tested [...]
To purchase Leopard, or not
I have been considering purchasing Mac OS X “Leopard,” when it hits the shelves this Friday evening. Although the new features are nice, there are pretty considerable reasons why I may not need any of them. A lot of the new features involve aspects of desktop computing that I no longer use. I don’t use [...]