Inspire Yourself and Add Value to Your Business
Finding inspiration can sometime be a chore but in today’s world most of the time it simply means spending a couple hours online or reviewing material you already have. So you need to be inspired about your business, your website or anything else. Yes, it’s pretty much a given that all of us at one […]
Have You Been Scammed Today?
No!! Well then you are one of the fortunate ones unfortunately many people fall prey to very simple scams. In particular the biggest one going is around domain registration. Recently a client of mine was scammed on their domain name and getting out of it is a bit of work here is the drill. A […]
When Given Lemons Add Sugar and Make Lemonaid
The following is a post in response to a so called review of my services that was made over a year ago. I almost let it go but the accusations made in that post could not go unchallenged. You can read the post here http://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/firedragonhosting.html Hello Benjamin, I recently tripped across this posting and while […]
Babes Go Bare for Cancer Calendar Sell Off
The Babes Go Bare for Cancer website now has a great new page, it is the Calendar Sell Off page. I guess there is a bit of some friendly competition going on here. It was a pleasure to be asked to do the update for their website and create the necessary pages for Babes Go […]
Big Brother and the Grocery Stores are Watching You
WTO Protests Seattle 1999So how much does the internet and all the numerous data bases know about you. Do they maybe know you even better than you know yourself? You do know that if you filled out proper personal info for that club/saving/special card from the grocery store/coffee shop/ect that everything you buy no matter how inconsequential it may be they are storing all that information in a data base somewhere until the day comes when they figure out a use for it.
Well in the US at the Safeway/Vons, Pepsi and Foursquare have found a use for that data now. Check this article http://mashable.com/2010/11/19/foursquare-pepsi-safeway/ the data is so personalized that coupons that are instantly available are tied to the types of badges you have earned in foursquare. No correct me if I am wrong here but this is begging to seem an awful lot like that move Minority Report where they have that one scene where Tom Cruses Character heads though the mall and the billboards scan his eyes and start presenting him with coupons and specials tailored to his persona purchase likes and dislikes.
One’s – Zero’s What’s in a date
I have been informed that I have made a mistake in dates for WordCamp. Yes it was such a simple thing you get so used to typing 2010 all year long when it is time to post for something happening next year you might think you hit 2011 but in reality you hit 2010. It […]