Random thoughts on Life, Family and Technology
Posted in Stocks on May 24th, 2006
Vonage will IPO today on the NYSE under the symbol VG. Through a directed share program, Vonage gave it’s customers the ability to buy the stock at it’s IPO price, which last night was priced at $17. I made a conditional offer to buy 500 shares, but was only allocated 200. We’ll see what happens […]
Posted in Video Games on May 15th, 2006
According the to The Inquirer, the Xbox 360 has been sucessfully hacked. The hack will allow you to play Xtreme backup copies of xbox and Xbox 360 games. The hack however, involves flashing your hard drive, which is a risky proposition. You have a good chance of rendering your drive unusable. You can read more […]
Posted in SEO, Search Engines on May 11th, 2006
Eweek published an article yesterday about the negative effects of Google’s “Big Daddy” rollout. In the article, Larry Page is quoted as saying the issue has caught Google by surprise and they have a team investigating what happened.
I can speak from my own experience. I have a few sites which have dropped from 1000’s of […]
I hate headhunters. The ones I have dealt with have all been talentless hacks that don’t even understand the technology business that they serve. If I had a nickel for every occasion I wasted my time with a headhunter, I’d be rich. This post is about a encounter with a particular headhunter at Winter Wyman, […]
Posted in web hosting on May 3rd, 2006
This blog is now being hosted at A Small Orange. I host most of my sites with hostgator, but I wanted to play around with Ruby on Rails, which ASO offers with their hosting. I also wanted to move some of my sites around to different IP’s for SEO purposes. So far so good, although […]
Posted in Family on May 1st, 2006
My wife and I took our son to see Sesame Street Live last weekend at Boston University. Trevor loved it and I would reccommend anyone with kids who like sesame street to go.