Archive for April, 2004

The Ross Show (2004-4-30)

Funny.  Ross is live on camera today, doing employee reviews and letting us all watch the process….sort of a slow-mo version of the Subservient Chicken website.  Subservient Cow, perhaps?  Don't bother; I don't think he'll respond to orders given via blog comments.

Calling a .NET assembly from VB6 (2004-4-27)

Today, after beating my head against a wall for two days straight, I managed to break through. Here's the scenario:  A client uses data from various sources, much of it extracted from web pages using a not-too-dumb spider program that I wrote.  One of the sources rewrote their entire site in ASP.NET, which is exceedingly [...]

All I want for Christmas… (2004-4-26)

Just two words: Vroom Vroom!(Picture from Motoring File)

I'm game… (2004-4-25)

“And what will Ripper take?”           – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, Scholastic, Inc. Your turn… Grab the nearest book Open the book to page 23 Find the fifth sentence Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions [ via Random Bytes ]

Tucows + Boardtown…more info (2004-4-25)

Elliot goes into more depth on the whys of the Boardtown Acquisition (which I wrote about earlier).  All the reasons that I suspected, and a subtle hint that Tucows may be heading toward a hosted xSP billing solution at some point in the future.

TrumpZilla (2004-4-25)

Here's a funny online Trump game…blow enemy airplanes out of the sky by lobbing The Donald's toupees at them.  Win a level and Trump gives you a reward.  Lose, and YOU'RE FIRED.

Docu-drama (2004-4-22)

Here's some followup on my earlier post about the 9-11 Commission and documents that had been withheld. In that post, I was quoting a Denver Post article in which former Clinton aides complained that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of White House files [they] were ready to offer the commission had been withheld from [...]

Kudos to the Hon. Sen. Zell Miller (2004-4-22)

I won't reproduce the whole thing here, but Zell Miller (D-Ga) delivered a fantastic commentary about the usefulness of the 9/11 Commission on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Mar 30.  Here's the introduction: After watching the harsh acrimony generated by the September 11 Commission — which, let me say at the outset, is [...]

Tucows to acquire Boardtown (2004-4-21)

Now, this is an interesting development. Boardtown is the maker of an ISP billing package called Platypus that's generally regarded as one of the better ones in the industry (along with Rodopi, Emerald and OptiGold). They also have software packages to handle help desk, mail lists, shopping carts, and spam filtering. Clearly, Tucows has its [...]

Mea Culpa (2004-4-20)

Earlier, I reported that Blogware blogs' RSS feeds don't get autodetected by NewzCrawler because of an error in the HTML that Blogware generates.  Not so. I think it's more accurate to characterize it as a faulty assumption on the part of NewzCrawler than as an error on the part of Blogware. Technically speaking (and you'll [...]