Last year, one of our local tech papers added a link listing their top local (Ottawa Canada) blogs. I was curious to see how we all stacked up Alexa-wise… Here’s the top 10.
24,938 – John Roese (Nortel CTO )
35,137 – Jonathan Snook (SEO)
120,375 – Tom Green (laughs)
185,378 – Michael Geist (freedom fighter)
195,197 – PhoenixRealm (code)
245,998 – Alec Saunders (VoIP)
280,052 – SensoryMetrics (You Are Here!!)
280,994 – Box Of Chocolates (accessibility)
287,959 – 76 Design (less than 100 designs)
326,469 – Brendon Hodgon (brendon)
Here’s an old pic of Jobe & me at the SensoryMetrics New Year’s Eve bash on December 31st, 1950! Not much has changed, we’re still dressing like that (it amuses our wives!)
My New Year’s resolution? 1280×800. I hope to get beyond that by next New Years!! Happy New Year to all the folks who dropped by SM this year!
(BTW – that’s Jobe on the left and me on the right. Baxter is cowering under the chair!) Check out Square America for more great vintage New Years Kodachrome moments!
The Consumerist reports all sorts of misdeeds at Best Buy. The strangest is this “secret” rogue version of their website in in-store kiosks. The real web site usually has lower prices than in-store ones. If you mention the lower price, staff are supposed to give you the best price. With this rogue kiosk site, prices shown match the higher store prices, yet the site looks identical to the external ecom site. Very deceptive.
Another odd BB thing was also reported this week. They are selling $50. Sirius Radio gift cards for $55. That’s kind of the opposite of a best buy. Better say “Best Buy Bye Bye!” [tags]Best-Buy, Worst-Buy, Consumerist, bait-and-switch[/tags]
I love the UI…and the quality of the image. but despite the hype… the selected betas… the secrecy…the so-called web2.0 superstar CEOs… huh….. content? did someone forget the content?? Joost just blows.
Conversely – new kid to watch… Blowtorch. It’s a bona fide Hollywoood studio headed by the director of My Cousin Vinny!! The site is a bit social net… partly YouTube… Granted, the UI is a bit (a lot) crappy… but they just got nearly $90 million in funding last month… it’s the startup to watch!![tags]YouTube, BlowTorch, Joost[/tags]
Released in mid-summer, this has to be one of the strangest electric shaver commercials we’ve seen yet. As Woody Allen predicted in his 1973 movie Sleeper… in the future, people will have sex with machines. As Big Corps move more of their ad budgets to the web next year, it should be interesting to see how far the “envelope” is pushed! [tags]Philips, Sleeper, Sex-Bots[/tags]
1. “Why don’t you shut up?” – that’s what Spain’s king Juan Carlos told Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in a debate. The clip has become the ringtone of choice for 500,000 spaniards, having generated $2 million in sales.
2. China’s Huawei Networks shows amazing growth in the service provider router market ranking a few notches below Cisco and Juniper. Huawei continues it’s entry into North America by launching its M318 handset in Dallas yesterday. Can anyone properly pronounce “huawei” like AWAY? or HOOWEE?
3. Nexans Cable company and Penn State have demonstrated 100 gig ethernet over Cat7 copper. Only problem: you have to live within 70 meters of your service provider!
4. Google buys Sprint. In it’s bid to become an overnight wireless carrier, Google took advantage of Sprint’s undervalued share price… (oops wait – that’s for the 2008 predictions list…)
Long before XML there was XLR. Different things though… XLR is mostly an industrial audio connector: for microphones, for speakers, for anything. Rich first introduced me to this amazing thing long ago when we were teenagers starting our first business.
It’s an industry standard and is brilliant in execution. The main benefit – no need to mess around with raw wires… as is the case today with consumer products. It also locks the connection so wires don’t get pulled out.
According to wikipedia XLR was invented by Cannon, originally dubbed CannonX… then they added the lock feature (XL).. then the rubber pad to seal the connection…. hence XLR… not even an acronym. WOW.
The disappointment… XLR isn’t more widely used by the speaker industry.[tags]XLR, connectors[/tags]
Today’s picture was taken last week by Montreal photographer Wally Palcholka . The gorgeous night shot shows a brilliant Mars on the left, with a reddish star Betelgeuse in the center along with The Belt of Orion. The ET-like landscape is the Buttes of Monument Valley in southern Utah.
NASA’s gallery features a new image every day, along with a brief description written by a professional astronomer.
20 years ago, Irish band The Pogues released the song Fairytale in New York. It has since become the UK’s #1 favourite Christmas song. This is a bit odd because the song is a duet about a couple of bums locked up in a NY drunk tank.
Gotta hand it to the Brits though – no gushy merry gentlemen jingling this or pa-rum-pum-pum-pumming that!
The song got some extra attention last week when BBC Radio 1 tried to censor two bad words from the original. One rhymes with “glut” and the other with “maggot”. We’re not ones to support ridiculous political correctness censorship, so the offending verse appears below…
You’re a bum You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last
Tugs on your heartstrings, doesn’t it? Make sure you print extra copies of the lyrics before you go out caroling with the gang later!
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Here’s an old pic of Jobe & me at the SensoryMetrics New Year’s Eve bash on December 31st, 1950! Not much has changed, we’re still dressing like that (it amuses our wives!)
[tags]Best-Buy, Worst-Buy, Consumerist, bait-and-switch[/tags]
Conversely – new kid to watch… 
1. “Why don’t you shut up?” – that’s what Spain’s king Juan Carlos told Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in a debate. The clip has become the 
Long before XML there was XLR. Different things though… XLR is mostly an industrial audio connector: for microphones, for speakers, for anything. 
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