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Fox News says the devil did it

April 19, 2007

This is why I don’t watch Fox News: Their reporting isn’t news. It’s below the level of a tabloid. They just make things up. They’re claiming, quoting several “experts”, that the Virginia Tech shooter may have been possessed by Satan.

Blowing things out of proportion

April 18, 2007

Last night, I moved TargetedVisitors.info and VisitorBoost.com to one of the new servers. They were some of the last sites to be moved — they’re so critical to me that I’ll let the other sites test out the new servers first. One of the scripts that runs on crontab every 10 minutes didn’t take the [...]

Utah Bans Keyword Advertising on Trademarks

April 18, 2007

I’m pretty sure Utah’s ban on keyword advertising is further down the stupidity list than that patent on doubly linked lists the patent office issued.

A Moment on Earth

April 18, 2007

I thought this was pretty neat. It’s a mosaic created with thousands of images taken on every continent, 40 different countries, by 60 different photographers all at the exact same time.

Microsoft is a good thing

April 11, 2007

It’s been a week since I started working for Microsoft. So far, so good. The best part of this internship so far is the location. Washington is like one huge suburb. No matter how far I drive in any direction it’s the same — beautiful homes spaced out among plenty of grass and trees, people [...]

I’m in Washington

April 1, 2007