Archive | December, 2005

Steve Rubel found a hack that’s not a hack

Posted on December 28th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

Steve Rubel made a post “Read Most of O’Reilly’s Hacks Books for Free Using Google”. When I read it this morning, my first thought was that he should have reported this to either Google or O’Reilly, waited a decent period of time and if no response, then perhaps publicly say something (not necessarily saying how [...]

Microsoft is not buying Opera, yet more false information

Posted on December 27th, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

CoolTechZone posted an article saying that Microsoft was buying Opera. Opera firmly denied this. The article has been updated to reflect the fact that Microsoft had not approached Opera about buying the browser.
I don’t know if CoolTechZone made this up or was given false information but the point is false information was posted to the [...]

Scrapers abusing Google Adsense

Posted on December 27th, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

Om wrote about a problem he’s having with people using his content without permission on another site to get ad revenue. This is something I’ve spoken about before, many times in fact. Om successfully got one site down but for every one he shuts down, there are five more he doesn’t know about.
He said the [...]

Yet another blogroll clean: dumping WIN

Posted on December 19th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I wrote recently about loyalty in the comments of Cookie Cutter Effect. For those that read my sites, I am very loyal and I try to be ethical (I need to update that because it still references BYW). When my loyalty dies, it is hard to get back. Anyway, in Cookie Cutter Effect, I recommended [...]

Expression Engine 1.4 and free CORE version

Posted on December 19th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I’ve used pMachine products for years, and yes most of my blogs were ExpressionEngine powered, until recently when I switched back to WordPress. There were two reasons why:
1) Exporting – yes I could create a template but the template would exclude items, important items, like comments.
2) Price increase – it went up from $99.95 to [...]

Trusted Platform Module: I don’t like it

Posted on December 15th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple as a PIN number or, preferably, a more secure system such as a fingerprint reader. Then if your bank has TPM software, when you log into their Web site, the bank’s site also “reads” the [...]

Talk A Good Game: Didn’t Talk Enough

Posted on December 13th, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

“I don’t spend time on Blogs because there rarely any useful information on them, like this one. It’s just people spinning fabrication out of idle imaginations.”
That is a portion of a post that the owner of Talk A Good Game left on The Microsoft Show. Shortly after that post, he said after the chaos was [...]

How do you brand a common name?

Posted on December 9th, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

I decided to edit my Technorati watchlist. Usually I watch for the domain name but I decided to add my name to the watchlist. Good thing I did…check this out.

Autometer Old Tyme White – a bunch of spam blogs. Some of them were deleted but are still showing up on Technorati (to me this is [...]

Blog Network Interview

Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

Matt from Blog Network Watch posted an interview with yours truly.

Want to know my thoughts on the 9rules business model…and what amuses me about it? Check out the interview.

Thanks Matt!