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I may have said it elsewhere, but I'm a big fan of DirectNIC even though they are double GoDaddy's price. There interfaces are really clean, and any time I've transferred or sold a domain it has been an absolute breeze. And back in the day, when all the major registrars were shutting down their web-based WHOIS tools (NetSol et al), DirectNIC always kept their WHOIS tool open which always bought them a lot of good will in my book. (I wasn't aware of command line tools like 'whois' and 'nslookup' yet...)
I didn't know Safari had a "Reader" button (I usually stick to FF/Chrome), out of curiosity do you know who implemented the idea first?
For small values of X < 10
11X = X+X, 2X always even
For slightly larger values of X, where 11X < 200
11x10 = 110, (starts out even)
11x11 = 121, (both of the first two digits increment by one, flipping even or odd ... in unison)
11x18 = 198, (only two signs will flip until we increment the 100s place, when that happens we will reverse three signs instead of two)
11x19 = 209, (now, three instead of two flip, and our sum comes up odd for the first time, 2+0+9=11)
* I say this because every time I've tried to describe it verbally, I always end up saying something like 'disapora' and making a hand-wavey gesture in a direction "away" from 'facebook'
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy...
"Cognitive Surplus", Clay Shirky @ LSE [mp3]
Come on, it's 777 pages for a reason! :)
When I realized the page count (purposefully) included the index I was quite tickled. So many gems, little and large...
Spend two pence less than you make and you'll be content, maybe even happy. Spend two pence more than you make and you'll be miserable.
(Also, recently I had only been awake 8h that "day", but needed to get to sleep "early" in order to get a full 8h of sleep before a client meeting the next morning. So, I made Mac&Cheese with an entire stick of butter (~1500cal + 90g fat). This seemed to slow my heart down and put me out like a light. Though this method has obvious health implications, I'd be lying if I said it didn't work like a charm... that one time.)
Yahoo's http server at that time used to take redirect URLs in this format: "http://yahoo/url/*http://exiturl/. They were using these URLs on all search results, I'm guessing to track click-throughs to improve rankings. So I set up a script on our site to load an image using this format with the img src in the exit-url, and for the yahoo-url and we would round robin 'client' links though. Essentially spoofing legitimate search&clicks on yahoo from unique IPs from our site visitors. Over the next two weeks all our sites started bubbling up in the results. This worked for about a month before Yahoo changed something (I'd guess they started validating the http-referrer or the exit-url), and it all stopped working.
But, for that brief window of time when it was working, I was the king of the high fives.
(FWIW, I don't do SEO work of any kind anymore, and I certainly don't advocate 'blackhat seo'.)
I ask because this anecdote seems to be verbatim from the movie "Punch Drunk Love". Although the movie I mention was released in 2002: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/
Less than six months later, we moved from the smallest house my family had ever lived in, and into the largest house we ever lived in; in a down economy no less.
I don't know that my father ought to be considered a "serial entrepreneur" as he was never trying to get rich -- only to provide for us, but he did similar things on several occasions whenever push came to shove. More importantly no matter the job climate, he always either found or created enough work for himself to support the rest of us.
The lesson I take from this is: when your job sucks or even outright ceases to exist, if the job market is bone dry and the economy is in decline, it might really be the best time to create your own business. (And,.. you'll never know unless you try.)
All my computer work, including job-type jobs I've held, have all come through networking. But that's really just a truism I guess, in that all work will/must come from networking. Which I take as your point...
What's interesting to me is the way one's personal network, seems to grow; like the facts of networking are stranger than fiction in an organic "Connections (BBC)" sorta way.
(Been watching old connections episodes on my G1 off youtube, while the inet is out at my house. Great show.)