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Monthly Archives: December 2005

My first Million

Well, I haven’t even come close, but I thought it worth reporting that my attempts to monetize this blog have met with a small gram of success. Obviously, it is not time to quit the day job, but it’s a start and it feels great.

Personal Search Trends

Google has introduced a new feature

Some Problems with IE

I have noticed some problems with IE and the Style sheet I have chosen for this site. It looks like it is a conflict because of the size of some images I have posted to my blog in previous posts.
And since I am [...]

Performancing is an awesome website

I got turned on to Performancing when Aaron Wall bought Threadwatch from Nick Wilson so that he could spend all his time with Performancing. And these guys have gone and done a very nice thing indeed.They have created a Firefox extension that allows [...]

Re:Focus

I am changing what I write about in this blog.

U2 Brutus

In deference to my one and only New Year’s Resolution, I went to see the U2 concert on Saturday night. We arrived at the venue right after the opening act had finished. Various technicians fussed about with the stage setup for about a half an hour. There was a girl next to me from Wooster [...]

What’s Your Favorite Music

Am I the only one left who can remember a time when we had our favorite artists. Back in the 80s, when visiting Quebec I met a girl whose english was practically non-existent but she knew these words, “My idol, Michael Jackson.”
Nowadays, of course, it is too complicated. We all say, “Anything but country [...]

Cool new service

I found a music service via Seth Godin’s blog. It is called Pandora. The concept is that by taking components of music that you enjoy they can suggest new songs that you have never heard that you will also enjoy. I have to say that they are pretty good at what they do. This is [...]

Freeze punk. . .

Here is the middle of the week. I just Saw Aeon Flux. It was funny because whenever film people try to mimic a cartoon they usually end up looking funny. In the words of Charlize Theron, “Amateurs”.
In any case, the story line is one that has some sci-fi merit, but the I believe that the [...]

Baby Steps

So I added an Adwords account and a Yahoo Search Marketing account. I started one up and now am playing around with the different options available there. Soon I will be placing AdSense words on this site to test that out as well.
It is all very fun stuff. So obviously when you set these things [...]