New Google Design?

May 11th, 2007 by mike

I know I haven’t posted in a long time and I know this won’t make up for it, but it seems that Google is testing out a new design. I don’t know anyone else who’s seen this yet, so here it is, for your viewing pleasure:

Google Pic

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Added discountcompetence.com to Technorati

April 2nd, 2007 by mike

I added my blog to technorati.com. For some reason, I have to add this link, so here it is: Technorati Profile

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PHP Tag Libraries

March 30th, 2007 by mike

I’ve never quite understood why no one writes PHP libraries in C. The platform completely supports it. In JSP, when you need a tag that doesn’t exist and none of the 10,000,000 Java classes that you’ve installed with your latest and most buzzword-compliant framework supply it, you write it — in Java. You compile it and install it on the machine. At this point, new functionality exists for all of your JSP pages and you can write-in that cute little tag that you created that converts strings to lowercase.

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Can of Spam

March 13th, 2007 by mike

I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a tremendous increase in the amount of spam that I’ve been receiving lately. For years I’ve employed a system of identifying the sources of my spam, but it has not been as successful as I would have hoped. I own quite a few domain names, and I’ve had one in particular for a very long time. Every time I sign up for any sort of online account that requires an email address, I would use that site’s url @ my domain as the address. What this allowed me to do, at the very least, was to identify those companies that sold my email address to people who spammed me later on. One of the biggest problems with this was that it meant that I had to set up a catch-all for my domain, pointing to my main account.

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Short Post

January 3rd, 2007 by mike

I Went to San Francisco over the christmas to New Years week. View my photos at Flickr and if you can, tell me what the hell that line is.

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Employment

May 12th, 2006 by mike

As some of you may know, I’ve been seeking employment recently. I’ve been trying to get either an actual position on what is currently my main client’s staff or physical employment elsewhere. This morning, I had a job interview downtown and after discussing my skill-set and the potential position I’ve come to a few conclusions.

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