How GameStop can become exceptional

• April 7, 2007
• James Skemp

I was recently asked to complete a survey after a purchase from a local GameStop.  When asked how GameStop could be exceptional, I replied with the following:

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Solar-powered desk fans?

• March 25, 2007
• James Skemp

With summer right around the corner, I've been looking at solar powered fans, especially after seeing an episode of Ask This Old House where they installed an attic fan.

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New style applied

• March 18, 2007
• James Skemp

I've applied a new style today to this part of the site. The old style had been used for quite a long while, and it was definitely time for a change.

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Search engine spamming sites: Bloobee.com, swicki, and eurekster?

• March 14, 2007
• James Skemp

I've got Google alerting me to a number of search words of relevance to me; my domain names, my name, etcetera. Unfortunately, as has happened before, a site using pieces of my content showed up in Google's results for one of my phrases.

Yikes.

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Abuse: Spam originating from IP 58.65.232.169

• February 25, 2007
• James Skemp

This email was sent to abuse at hostfresh.com, approximately at the same time as this post.  For informational purposes, as well as my own tracking, I'm including it here.

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Online backups?

• February 23, 2007
• James Skemp

I was reading an article the other day, which was discussing a companies backup plan. It's suicidal for companies, in this day and age, not to have some kind of backup plan in place (and, most importantly, tested). Yet, for home users, especially those with important documents on their computers, it's almost approaching suicidal.

There's ways to do these backups by burning to CD or DVD, of course, and even Windows seems to have something built in (or at least my HP computer with a DVD-burner does), but you actually have to run the utility, and put a disc in the drive.

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Google shortening it's name in AdSense?

• February 11, 2007
• James Skemp

After making a post a short time ago (this post moved to rest before it), I ran into an interesting site; in place of 'Google' in the AdSense banner text "Ads by Google", there was the small Google image, used in the address bar or tab, for those browsers that support it.

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Fox 47 News at 9 (Madison WI) is pretty dang bad ...

• February 4, 2007
• James Skemp

Normally I wouldn't waste my time writing on something like this, but after almost 30 minutes, I've just got to say it (hopefully it will get some other local voice to agree or disagree, or otherwise shed some additional light on this): Fox 47 News at 9 borders on horrid.

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Two reasons I'm not a Republican, and why the Digg effect isn't always that bad

• January 27, 2007
• James Skemp

Since neither by themselves would make a full post, two items in one.

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Not impressed by the WordPress 2.1 feature list

• January 22, 2007
• James Skemp

WordPress 2.1 was released today and, unfortunately, I'm just not horribly impressed by the new feature list.  Granted, it's a short feature list, but I see few reasons to upgrade.  The main reason?  Most of these features look like they're geared towards non-technical/shared-hosting users.

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