Archive for June, 2006

And This Is The Thanks I Get?

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

I was looking through old chat logs and found this classic that exemplifies how I feel about ignorant retail SEO clients. 
sylly (8/4/2005 2:49:00 PM): tom california: do you have any idea what it costs a client to use your services? tom california: i mean, you looked at our site … it has problems … it [...]

Windows Vista Beta 2 CD just arrived

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Previously new Microsoft operating systems have always excited me, and I seem to always be the first person I know to use them, often before the software is even commercially available to the public. Windows 95 was pretty exciting, but I’m more of an NT type so Windows XP was the most excited I ever [...]

Hollywood Beach Offshore Racing

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Formally known as the “Hollywood Beach Super Boat Grand Prix“, but the race is really off Hollywood Beach. The Northern end of the 6 mile course is about 200 to 300 meters North of me, so I should be able to get some nice photos of them making the turn, if they race [...]

Online Romance Epidemic

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

As an aspiring business-oriented Internet junkie, the thought of developing an online dating site impulsively emerged from my feral mind. It was just only early this year that I appreciated the potential of the World Wide Web as a venue to be creative and productive. Likewise, it proves to be a lucrative source of income [...]

Hurricane Wilma & Hollywood Beach Broadwalk Restoration

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

I took photos of the beach front here on Hollywood Beach the day aftere Hurricane Wilma churned through on a NorthEast path, October 24th, 2005. The eye passed about 30 miles up the coast from here, as I am less than 5 miles North of Miami.
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Conversely, the eye of Hurricane Katrina, three days [...]

No more floppy drive

Monday, June 12th, 2006

For more than two years now I have been purchasing PCs without floppy drives, but I’ve had to specify such. The other day I purchased a new desktop PC which came without a floppy drive by default. My, how times are changing. I hope we have seen the end of those.
I don’t [...]

Fear and Lust in The Philippines

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Upon arriving in The Philippines for the first time, late July 2004, and switching from the international to airport to the domestic one, going through pre-flight inspections and paying the mandatory Philippines airport terminal fee, I found my way to the personal cell phone battery recharging area, to charge my PocketPC, when three young Filipino [...]

Random Audio

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

I bought a Samsung MP3 player. I love this thing. It does not have a swappable battery and it charges off USB 5 volts, so you have to have your PC on to charge the player. That’s not a problem with me as I have sever PCs, some of which never turn [...]