Posts filed under Web

August 8, 2008

Firefox 3.0.1 is awesome

In case you haven’t downloaded version 3 of Firefox, here is one good reason - password remembering. In the old FF it would wait for the user name and password submission to be posted before asking if you wanted to remember the user name/password. That sucked because if you screwed it up then you have [...]

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July 30, 2008

Why Page Rank is not useful

I’ve been writing a few threads on an SEO forum over at sitepoint and other places recently and trying to dispel the myth that Page Rank is not as useful as most people think.
When I optimize a website and its pages for search terms it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when I [...]

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April 22, 2008

Calvin Ayre leaves Bodog

Alas, his ego remains. Do some Googling
Google “Ayre Force”. What an ego this guy has. The idea that he could in any way be a super hero is a joke.
He claimed on his blog that he was only a brand ambassador which is a big pile of crap. He was the main man behind Bodog. [...]

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April 12, 2008

Michael Bay Vs Uwe Boll

Michael Bay did screw up Transformers I’m sorry. I hope he doesn’t do the same with the sequel… On Michael Bay’s website he was asked if he cared about Boll’s comments and he replied on a thread entitled “Being Called a “Fucking Retard” by Uwe Boll”.
Michael,
We all know that you’ve never been somebody to shy [...]

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April 5, 2008

HAProxy/OpenX fix

Chris Nutting from OpenX sent me a fix for the HAProxy load balancer issue and I implemented it this morning and all is good.
We’re getting the IP from users who are behind a proxy AND we are getting the IP of that user from behind OUR HAProxy load balanced layer - BOOYA!
Props to Chris at [...]

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April 2, 2008

Commission Junction deactivating accounts

I recently received an email from CJ stating that they would deactivate my account because the lack of activity. This means that they will deactivate my account because I haven’t been making sales. It didn’t really make much sense to me why they would do that so I emailed them back as I was given [...]

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