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Out on a limb: Why the Yahoo! Fiasco is Good for Yahoo!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

OK, let me just start by saying my confidence in what I am about to say is just over 50%, say 50.1%, but I’m going to say it anyway:
I can’t help but wonder if all these execs leaving Y! is a good thing.  Seriously.  Where have they gotten Y! to date?  Time for some [...]

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Change backup frequency of Time Machine? - The Apple Blog Community

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Change backup frequency of Time Machine? - The Apple Blog Community
Ah, very useful.  For me, Time Machine was taking more time to prepare the backup then it had (30 -40 minutes sometimes) and it was also chewing up the CPU pretty good, so I turned down the frequency of the backups (2 hours instead [...]

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Java on Mac OS X Leopard

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Java on Mac OS X Leopard
Nice directions on how to enable 64-bit mode in Java 1.5 on Leopard.
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User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News
One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. “We should see some fierce edit wars on this one,” noted Erick Schonfeld on the TechCrunch blog.
As if no [...]

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Google Sitemaps Confusion

Friday, May 30th, 2008

OK, I finally got my sh*t together and got the WordPress Google Sitemaps plugin up and running. Boy, what a difference in traffic and ad clicks.
However, I’m really confused by the “Top Queries” section. Here’s what mine looks like:

So, this just doesn’t jive w/ what I see in analytics.  For example, I [...]

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Next Microsoft operating system has touch controls - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Next Microsoft operating system has touch controls - Yahoo! News
How is this news?  Every time I’m on a Windows machine, I have to “touch” the power button in order to reboot it…
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