This story was told to me by a friend I met while serving in the US Army. His name is Stephen Shields and I have no idea where he is now but if he reads this he should contact me.To give some background on the story I will tell you the following. Steve worked in…
Month: February 2007
Is AT&T’s Unity plan MCI’s Friends and Family all over again?
I recently became aware of a new calling plan being offered by AT&T called ‘Unity’. The idea is very simple; if you call an AT&T customer the call is free, if you call someone from outside the network the call will cost you.This is being heralded as some amazing new idea but it’s not. The…
Fighting the MyBlogLog Spammers
Now that I have signed up for MyBlogLog I’m finding a bunch of spammers leaving their MyBlogLog icon on my blog. I like that the last few members to visit my blog have their image and name showing up, I like it a lot. What I do not like is when a spammer does it.Luckily…
Giving BlogKits One More Chance
I recently dropped the BlogKits system from my blog. I ran it for about 45 days and though I had tons of clicks I never made any money off of it. I’ve been rethinking my removal of the BlogKits ad blocks and I’ve decided to give the service a second chance. Unlike my previous attempt…
Digg makes Digging easier for blogs
On the Digg blog today Brian Link announced that Digg was adding some new “smart” Digg buttons for people to use on their websites.In the past I have tried to use the “Digg this” code on my blog and it has never worked out for me. If Digg is releasing new options for putting the…
Major flaw in MyBlogLog plug-in for WordPress
I have just discovered a major flaw in a MyBlogLog plug-in for WordPress blogs. It involves comments.If you are using MyBlogLog and your blog has the MyAvatars plug-in installed you might want to know something…If anyone leaves a comment on your blog using the name of an existing MyBlogLog member the comment will have their…
How to fix Digg’s gaming problem
I’ve been looking over the Digg TOS for any explicit text dealing with paid submissions and I just can’t find it! Perhaps you could take a minute to read their TOS and let me know?In the Digg TOS there is this one section on user conduct:As a condition of use, you promise not to use…
Digg makes more changes
Well, Digg went down for a short time today to make some changes to their website. When they came back up there was no new post on the Digg blog. I took a quick look around the site and these are the changes I found:1) The information under a story, as to where it comes…
Game Review: Marvel Heroes
Marvel Heroes (Fantasy Flight Games, 2006 – Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello) easily topped my “Most anticipated games in 2006” list at the end of 2005. As the year went on, I was a bit concerned that the game would make the same list the following year, but it was fortunately released near the end…
Wii VC Review: The Legend of Zelda
What’s a VC review? It’s a review of a game that is now available on the Wii via the virtual console or shopping channel.The first VC review I am doing is for the classic NES game the Legend of Zelda. Let me tell you right off that this is the game that made me buy…
How to get your satellite company to give you free upgrades
Anyone who has had a satellite dish installed knows that there are only two competitors in the market; Dish Network and DirecTV. What you also know is that every few months one or the other will offer a bunch of free stuff to new subscribers. I say new subscribers because they never offer these deals…
Saying Goodbye to Digg
In a recent posting on Digg’s blog Kevin Rose has stated that the top diggers list will soon be gone. The reason Kevin Rose gives is rather strange: “Which leads me to a disappointing trend that we’ve noticed over the past several months. Some of our top users – the people that have spent hundreds…