I received some books in the mail today from Intel on IA-32 Assembly language development and the sheer weight of these books reminded me that I was likely to never actually read them, let alone leaf through them when I actually needed some reference. I tend to just go to Google and search for the topic before I ever pick up a book anymore. In spite of the ease of reading stuff on the web, it is still less satisfying and intuitive (and in many ways, less informative) than actually reading the book. I like Google Print, but that is a teaser without a carrot at the end of the stick. I know that there are eBooks and there are a variety of other electronic publication services, but could one of the big poobahs (Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc.) come up with a searchable online library of books that could be […]

Lost in Translation: Amazingly funny! Try “Merry Christmas!”

WordPress and Performancing Extension for Firefox: A Dummies version of implementing the extension for WordPress. As a musing, a few years ago, “Dummies Version” would/could have offended some people, but the “…” for Dummies series of books have become so common that any tutorial labeled as “for dummies” is meant to be viewed as written simply, succintly with the most novice user in mind. [EDIT] The extension is buggy. They need to stop adding slashes for WordPress posts!

For those of you that pay extra close attention to what you read through your feedreader (or are just obsessed with looking at links and how they work) you might have noticed that I have switched the feeds for Weblogtoolscollection to Feedburner. This gives me better control over the content, asssures that the content does not get lost when and if my blog is down and gives me cool reports such as the graphic here. I do miss being able to instantly modify my feed without having to ping Feedburner over and over again. I personally (still) use Feed on Feeds and since Alex did not offer me the chance to alpha test FeedLounge (just kidding Alex, no hard feelings at all) I have modified FoF to suit my tastes and my needs. As I’m sure everyone in this business is aware, the feed reader market has heated up considerably. […]

One in Five Blogs Is Spam While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research. Surprised? Nah!

WordPress Theme Zip: easiest (and laziest) way to generate a zip archive from a WordPress Theme that is being worked on, so you don’t have to manually create, update and upload a new zip file every time you modify a file in it.

WordPress Upload Management Tip: If you have a WordPress upload folder (like my b2-img) that is overflowing with stuff.

Yahoo YPN, Chitika, Adsense Preview Tool: Preview all your ads in one location with Firefox and/or IE.