It is true that there are a few web publishers that have the ability to put Microsoft’s PubCenter ads on their websites. We have seen the interface ourselves, and have come to learn a bit about it. For the last few years Microsoft has not allowed new users to access this function and rumor has […]
What’s with these companies that don’t s
Newegg.com has taken up an experimental deceptive practice of hiding product prices until you are on the very last page of the online shopping process. They are not the first, but we have had several clients experiment with such tactics and based on those results we strongly suggest NEVER doing this, and here is why. […]
2 Issues
2 issues have come to our attention: Firstly, complaints about valid comments not being released. This site receives hundreds of spam comments per day, and thankfully only a few make it through our filters. Of those hundreds, there are dozens that are entered manually and get queued for moderation. We have honestly just been too […]
Windows Easy Transfer My Arse!
Leave it to Microsoft to take what should have been an easy task, call it “easy” and then proceed to make their wizard lead you straight to a mess. The problem is, that while the “Easy Transfer” wizard claims that you are copying “an account” what you’re really just doing is copying files. That may […]
SOPA?
Please click the image on the right and submit the petition! I am writing to you as a voter in your district. I urge you to vote “no” on cloture for S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act, on Jan. 24th. The PROTECT IP Act is dangerous, ineffective, and short-sighted. It does not deserve floor consideration. […]
Has Science Died?
“The present boastfulness of the expounders and the gullibility of the listeners alike violate that critical spirit which is supposedly the hallmark of science.” —Jacques Barzun, Science: the glorious entertainment Being an avid, albeit amateur, physics aficionado, I watched with great interest as the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded. I read the summary findings, […]
Hard to Fake
About 10 years ago my wife and I were building our first house. It was completely custom, and the staircase was especially elaborate. In talking to the woodworker who would be doing the railings we were met with a lot of confidence. He said straight out: “I can make anything out of wood.” Isn’t it […]
Corporate Pitfalls for IT Staff
We noticed this little zinger on Twitter’s help pages while trying to help out a client: QUOTE: Due to resource constraints, not every Tweet can be indexed in Twitter Search. Our engineers are always working to index more updates, but we can’t force individual, missing Tweets into search. In other words, what you see in Twitter […]
The Real Web 2.0
“nofollow” is the new internet. What does this mean? Well it means that instead of the internet being organic and free it becomes controlled and limited to a small group. The big get bigger and the small, well they disappear into obscurity. If you don’t understand what “nofollow” refers to you may have landed at […]
Quality Assurance
As the cost of Sony’s failure to recognize a dysfunctional development team reaches estimates of over $4 billion we hope that corporations all over the planet are taking note. Among the the other winners of the most dysfunctional quality assurance processes Amazon’s cloud is also near the top. Amazon’s low standards are evident at just […]