Archive for August, 2007
Does your red-letter Bible misquote Christ?
Thursday, August 30th, 2007A long-standing feature request from users of SwordSearcher is “words of Christ in red.” One of the things I’m working on for the next release is adding red-letter data to the KJV module so that users can (optionally) have the Lord’s words colored differently than regular text.
One difficulty with this is that the various red-letter Bibles [...]
Keyword Stuffer SpamPro Elite Gold
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Web marketing seems to come down to one of two things:
1. Stay on the cusp of search engine manipulation. Keep one step ahead of Google so that you can have well-ranking web pages that customers will blunder on to, only to have to click an AdWord link to get to what they were looking for [...]
Thoughts on getting things done
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007A disorganized life is full of broken windows.
There is a theory in criminology called Broken Windows Theory. The idea goes like this: If a building has broken windows that go un-repaired for a length of time, chances are that vandals will break more of the windows. Later, they may break into the building or set [...]
Global Warming Bureaucrats and Politicians
Monday, August 20th, 2007The majority of global warming research is funded by government grants.
These government grants provide excellent job security for researchers. And since they come from the government, an entity not subject to the natural forces of the private sector, results are not particularly important.
Global warming scare mongering gives government agents (politicians and bureaucrats) another foundation on [...]
More download site scams - stealing content and hurting developers
Saturday, August 18th, 2007A few days ago, Andy Brice did a superb exposé on download site award scams. I’ve known that the vast majority of download site “awards” are completely bogus, which is why I do not display them on my software pages. However, while the award scam is entertaining, it does minimal damage to authors except those foolish [...]
New ToDo list software
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007A few weeks ago I decided I needed to quit using dozens of pieces of paper to manage my to-do list. I had tons of these little notes all over my desk, ostensibly to remind me of various tasks I needed to complete some day.
So, I decided to look for some todo software. I found [...]
Software Has Limits
Sunday, August 12th, 2007As I write this, somewhere around 8,000 people are stuck in LAX waiting to go through customs because of a computer glitch.
Frankly, I am amazed this doesn’t happen more often. This reminds me of a book I recently read called The Limits of Software. Anyone who is curious about why computers and software so frequently don’t work [...]
Good news goes under-reported
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Presumptive presidential candidate Fred Thompson writes:
“Since the spring of 2003, the economy has had average growth of over 3%, 8.2 million jobs have been created, and the inflation rate has stayed low. The current unemployment rate, 4.6%, is a full percentage point below what it averaged during the 1990s, and there have been 47 consecutive [...]