Online Shopping and Identity Theft

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I know that shopping online is a calculated risk. So is banking online, for that matter. I don’t believe I do an excessive amount of shopping and banking online, nor am I careless with my personal information. So why is it that approximately every six months I receive a notice telling me that merchant ABC [...]

Black Hat SEO: the new snake oil

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Side thoughts in italics. Skip ‘em if you like.
It must be time for the black hat SEO marketing companies to drum up new sales. While there are many white hat SEO marketing companies out there, only the illegitimate ones are coming out of the woodworks and targeting our clients. I suppose they assume that anyone [...]

Open Letter to Recruiters and Headhunters

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Dear Recruiters and Headhunters,
Many of you are discovering the miracle of e-mail and the over-hyped ZoomInfo.com site. To anyone looking to hire a person in a web-related field (or I daresay any IT-related field), a friendly tip: stop using ZoomInfo. It’s great that you’ve found us, we’re flattered you’re interested in our skills. However, it [...]

Food for thought: Supporting the Fair Tax

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

When I need a break from solving a problem on a project, I tend to read something completely unrelated to the subject I was working on. I fell down a rabbit hole and just finished reading an excellent article at Change Your Tree: I Support The Fair Tax (And Why You Should Too).
It’s already known [...]