by Rob Cottingham | Aug 25, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Evan Leeson’s blog, blurt.info, the newest addition to my blogroll. I’ve known Evan since we worked together in a squat concrete building known as The Bunker, on the grounds of the BC Legislature, during... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 22, 2005 | Blogging, Everything Else, Technology
Okay, I can understand bowdlerizing words like f**k and sh-t and j@k$%m*ckled… but as the son of a Dick (as in “short for Richard”), I’m a little narked at what seems to be going on in this screenshot of the iTunes podcast directory: I’m... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 18, 2005 | Blogging
Some time early this morning, a single blogging platform – WordPress, the one that powers this site – was downloaded for the 500,000th time. Bear in mind that to install WordPress, you need more than just the free directory your average ISP provides. You... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 17, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
A young woman is on a train. Creepy guy in a trench coat sits down across from her. She looks up. He flashes. Last century: She moves away, feeling eight shades of humiliated. This century: She takes his picture with a camera phone… and blogs it.... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 12, 2005 | Blogging
… the good guys unite again to combat spammers: Working together with the same group of folks, the second Web Spam Squashing Summit will be held in the second half of September in Silicon Valley again. Final details are still being arranged, but representatives... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 11, 2005 | Blogging, Communicating, Technology
You’ve finished your web site, uploaded it, registered with various search engines, given them enough time to find it… …but nobody’s finding you. So you try Googling on some obvious search terms, and discover that you’re waaaayyyy down...