Internet

The Internet is filled with wonderful things to blog about. I have found that blogging about the offline world and online world should be separated as many non savvy web users don't keep up with Internet stuff.

Here are some posts about Internet happenings that are important to me...

June 15th, 8:21 AM EST - Google.com down fo...

FYI: I was surprised Google.com was down for 2 whole minutes this morning. It wasn't my connection, as I tried other sites and all loaded without delay. I don't recall this happening to me in the past nor others mentioning it.

Keyword spying services, are they accurate?

Over the past year some online services have popped up offereing busienss owners the ability to spy on their competitors. Spying as in knowing what organic keywords their competitors are ranking for as well as any paid advertisments and those related keywords being used.

A great example of good website usability

Congratulations to NewsWeek on a great usability web page. I stumbled on this article (http://www.newsweek.com/id/98022) this evening and was surprised to see a clean yet usable "main" content page. I say "main content" referring to the article (left column).

Drupal eCommerce (Ubercart) in beta now

As of today Ubercart, one of Drupal's ecommerce modules, has been released as Beta. For a good while it was in Alpha. Even in Alpha this commerce module was great.

Drupal Association gets badges!

Back on October 12th (2007) I wrote Boris Mann of the Drupal Association: “I wanted to see if the Drupal Association could draw up a "badge" or something that basically represents that we are part

105 lbs of steel and silicon - oh my!

I am happy to report that my server came in today, all 105lbs of it! I couldn't believe that thing weighed so much. In case anyone is interested in the specs of it:

Dell PE 6650 - 2x3.0/4M 4G-8 P3DC 1x73G(10K) 2x146G(10K)

If I wanted I could add two more cores, two more drives, and 28 more gigbyte of ram.

Yah! Google gave me PageRank

I'm excited to know that my blogging website now has a page rank of four. It only took about 1.5 years!!!

Video tutorials - should be easier to make....

Video tutorials are a great way to teach someone about a product or illustrate how to use something. They are much more fun to see than reading a manual.

Lafayette Web launching soon... special tha...

Some months back I decided it would be good business to provide services to local small businesses here in my hometown (Lafayette / West Lafayette).

big mistake and hard lesson

Ok, so I am not that great on the command line in linux. Tonight I went to remove some files within a directory and used: rm -fR /