Posted by Dave Minor
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:01:00 GMT
WARNING: Do not talk with or reply to Domain Registry of America.
So, since the late 90s when I got into this business, Domain Registry of America has been sending U.S. Postal mail spam to me and all my customers trying to coax them into transferring their domain names. They are a scam and I counsel my clients to register their domain names through my account so that they know there is only one source for their internet costs.
These people really piss me off.
I just got a phone call from them. Wanting to “verify contact information” for a domain. If they had contacted this customer directly, he probably would have give all the information to them. I quizzed him on who the company was. When I asked “are you a registrar?”, he answered, “yes, this is an application process—is the address still …”
The conversation did not proceed much further as you can imagine, but I fear that they will hijack more domains now that they are cold calling people. Beware.
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Posted by Dave Minor
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:30:00 GMT
I love Arkansas
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Posted by Dave Minor
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:16:00 GMT
Here is an interesting article on how the world map would be redrawn with country borders determined by certain statistics.
Among other things, the toy import/export maps are so very heavily weighted!
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Posted by Dave Minor
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:36:00 GMT
yes, I know it’s been a while. lots I could write about. lazy I guess.
This is super cool though.
meeting scheduler
This simple web app allows you to send one or more people an invitation to a meeting and offer them one or more dates for the meeting. Each person reponds to the app with their preference and the app reports back on the best time for the meeting. I can’t wait to use that.
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Posted by Dave Minor
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:29:38 GMT
I want preferences for Google. Specifically, I want google to remember that there are certain sites that I don’t want to see results from.
When searching for answers to technical questions, quite often (probably a majority of the time), I get a top 3 hit from experts-exchange.com (which I won’t link to so as not to increase their page rank). This is a service which allows google to index their questions, but the answers require a subscription. I have no interest in paying for an answer that a) I’m not sure will solve my problem and b) is probably available for free at the next search result.
I can always skip and not follow the result, but I don’t make a habit of scanning the URL of the result when I am glancing at the synopsis of the page. I typically see that it is a good fit in context and click through.
If only I could just ignore certain domains on a global basis….
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Posted by Dave Minor
Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:34:11 GMT
I’ve never been a big fan of Javascript or doing stuff client-side, but JS seems to be coming into it’s own with the development of some great JS/AJAX frameworks like Prototype and script.aculo.us.
So I’m drawn to add more Web 2.0 elements into my projects lately—which is not a bad thing I think.
Today, while thinking of trying out the new version of Camino, Doug pointed me to some really cool Javascript development tools. These are really amazing and will allow me to 1) get rid of my developer’s toolbar in Firefox that takes up screen real estate and 2) allow me to use Camino and still have DOM tools available.
Doug reports slayeroffice’s tools a little buggy in Camino, but they do work.
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Posted by dminor
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:02:00 GMT
In my job, I spend a lot of time of time helping customers upgrade and configure Outlook. John Gruber posted an article this weekend where he asks his Magic 8-Ball questions related to Napster’s new subscription service. It’s a cute article. At the end, he asks the Magic 8-Ball one final question with an answer so profound that all Windows users should take heed:
Before I let you go, one last question on a different topic. The mainstream media coverage of the Mac Mini frequently emphasizes that security issues — spyware, malware, adware, etc. — are leading Windows users to consider switching to the Mac. It’s little wonder why Windows users are frustrated — even their email clients are infected by viruses. Any thoughts on this?
OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD.
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Posted by dminor
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:38:00 GMT
Eric Meyer has been discussing XFN described as “The goal of XFN is, quite simply, to make it possible for links to carry information about the human relationships behind the linking.” While I find this interesting, I currently don’t myself implementing XFN in the near future. What I do like about how this is setup is that the group that put this together have created something that doesn’t break HTML today, yet is completely flexible to work into any XML document. Eric writes:
not only can you add XFN values to your links, but you can do so and still have your HTML validate—see, for example, the validator report for the main page of meyerweb—because XFN uses an existing HTML attribute ( rel ) in a way that HTML itself allows. In other words, XFN enhances the Web without breaking it, very much in the spirit of Tim’s original vision of interlocking technologies that worked together to create a social medium.
Cool! We need more of this type of forethought.
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Posted by dminor
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:35:00 GMT
weather.com has prominently displayed (although discretely disguised) an Apple PowerBook on their Desktop Weather page. Of course, right under the picture is the line “All Desktop Weather products are compatible with Windows (98/Me/2000/NT/XP).” Gotta love the art department. Makes me wonder if the artist that worked on this project wanted to secretly promote the PowerBook or just doesn’t comprehend what platforms their products run on? Good thing for me there is another great desktop weather tool for OS X.
In other compatibility news, I’ve spent quite a bit of time this week :( trying to get driver support configured on OS X for my Umax 1220u scanner. This all got started because of the news of SANE drivers for OS X however, it appears that there are problems with libusb on OS X. So I’m patiently waiting again for a solution. It would have been just the right timing too. I have quite a few things to scan.
Also having trouble getting a conversion tool from wmu to mp3 if anyone has any ideas.
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Posted by dminor
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:47:00 GMT
Who knows where the web is heading? There are a lot of people who have been working very hard to unify web standards and convince major corporations to follow them. It’s best for everyone.
Eric Meyer shared his thoughts on XAML which are pretty frightening. He writes:
If XAML lives up to its potential, Microsoft won’t need the W3C any more. Why should they play by the open community’s rules when they can create their own very lucrative and highly controlled gated community?
Well, that’s not the dream I have for the web! If this comes to pass, it just proves how selfish and cut-throat Microsoft really is (not that they haven’t already proven that). Sadly, that could drive me completely away from web development. That whole era of “HTML4 proprietary tag” hassle was hard enough to deal with the first time around.
Eric says, “I may, at long last, be caught in the crushing, extending embrace.” You won’t be alone Eric.
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