I’m deeply honored that Sam Lowry has allowed me to rehost the February 2000 meme that went around the world, BlowTheDotOutYourAss. BlowTheDot’s message was simple: just because your dotcom got VC funding doesn’t mean what you are doing is needed, realistic or worthwhile. Or more bluntly, “Attention dotcom bullshitters. Cut the crap. You’re ruining it [...]

John Petrone is the CTO I cut my teeth under and the man’s who’s words run through my head on a weekly basis. He is currently the CTO of AutoByTel and was recently named an IDG Computerworld Premier IT Leader of 2006. He was CTO of aLibris and Dells & James before that. In [...]

It’s really about time an un-tainted web entity offered a profile repository system. This service would be allow anyone to make a profile about themselves (tied to an email) where they can share as much or as little info as they wanted. For example I could share my name, hometown, and profession, or I could [...]

Since 1999 I’ve owned a digital music players. In April 2004 I went Apple and got my wife-to-be a 15Gb iPod (dock connector) as a wedding-night present. (Engraved with “Our Big Big Love.” for any romatics reading.) Two months later my folks got me a 4Gb iPod mini. I had already been using iTunes software [...]

I like the looks of this. Podbop will show you bands it know are coming to play in your town and offers deep links to hear one or two of their tracks. Of course there is an RSS feed for e-z daily check-ins. Cities support and bands found are still incomplete, but I really like [...]

Today I received an unsolicited call (number withheld) from an Indian woman from Registrar Domain Support seeking to confirm the status of my domain babyster.com (Yepper, I have babyster ;). This person’s nefarious intent I believe was to perform a legal sleight of hand to gain ‘legal’ control of said domain. I hate these scams [...]

There’s a facial expression I make a couple times a month and I don’t know the name for it. The funny thing is that I almost exclusively make this expression at the same time someone is making it towards me … and it’s always between strangers.
The expression is the one you make when you and [...]

Considering the level of appreciation I got from my previous list of recommended vendors for t-shirts, buttons, postcards, biz cards and more, I have done the same for web hosting.
“Where should I host my website?” is a question I get a lot. Requested needs range from personal (which I usually end up hosting ;) to [...]