Monthly Archives: April 2007

About to give up on Google

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/12/2007
Following a few weeks of server errors when I attempted to connect to Gmail, I'm now having issues with Google Notebook. This is a damn shame, because Gmail and Google Notebook are really convenient for someone who uses as many different computers as I do. I work from at least four different machines, depending [...]
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God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/11/2007
Skimming my news feeds in Google Reader this evening before I finish writing for the evening, I ran across the bad news: Kurt Vonnegut, author of some of the best American fiction ever written, died today in Manhattan at the age of 84. Apparently Vonnegut died due to brain injuries sustained in a fall a [...]
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WP theme designer switching from CC to GPL

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/11/2007
"Small Potato" is Switching from Creative Commons to GPL: Despite that I’m just ONE theme designer and despite that I don’t contribute directly the WordPress codes, I believe that switching to GPL is a step in the direction to support the WordPress team and to help the WordPress theme community grow (positively). And, I’d like to [...]
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Can I be a CEO now?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/11/2007
I've been saying this for years, nice to see someone else hammering on the ridiculousness of CEO pay as well: I’m not big on kicking CEO’s and playing “bash the latest CEO compensation report” but this is pretty freaking ridiculous - Ford CEO: $28M for 4 months work. Seriously, some kids want to grow up and [...]
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Data loss and comics

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/10/2007
J.D. "Illiad" Frazer (hi Illiad...) is addressing data loss in the most recent User Friendly series, focusing on the marketing guy (Stef) losing his work and then blaming IT for not having appropriate backups. I know J.D. is going for the funny here, but... Stef has a point. It's IT's job to plan a backup [...]
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Kill your television

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/10/2007
Want to save some money? Get rid of cable. Want to free up some time? Stop watching TV. A site called The Simple Dollar has a piece on the benefits of turning off your television. By cutting out TV and cable, the site says, you can have more money (by not paying for cable), get more [...]
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Damned if you do...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 4/9/2007
I'm somewhat amused by how Google is getting railed on right and left for, alternately, linking to content and not linking to content. The blogger types get angry at Google when the search giant changes its search algorithm and they drop in the rankings. "Google is too powerful, they're depriving me of my traffic," they [...]
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