December 16, 2005
Available domain hacks
The following domain hacks are still available. insuffi.cient.info nee.dmore.info cant.getenough.info to.omuch.info e.lectromag.net bas.ketball.net youkill.us Get ‘em while you can!
Domains I’ve owned
I’ve been online for about 3 years now, and have had an assortment of registered domains. Here’s a quick recap for old time’s sake: http://trainque.com – this site, still active http://savedelete.com – once hosted a technology centric blog, no longer active. This domain has since been grabbed by a domain squatter http://miscellaneology.net – once hosted [...]
December 15, 2005
Replacing dots with images via CSS, for domain hacks
Domain hacks such as http://del.icio.us are getting rather popular. I mean, what’s not to like about a domains like http://cyb.org, http://burri.to, http://intra.net, or http://clari.net? Personally, I think domain hacks are a neat way to gain online brand recognition and score yourself a fun, meaningful domain (especially since all the good .coms are taken). The problem with [...]
December 9, 2005
Yahoo! buys del.icio.us; response mixed
Yes, it’s true. Popular online bookmarking site del.icio.us has announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo!. I could spend the rest of this entry either: congratulating del.icio.us creators on the sale trying to make sense of flickr, Konfabulator, Upcoming.org, and del.icio.us being owned by the same parent company lamenting the sale to a corporate giant But [...]
December 2, 2005
proxy web browser
Some web kiosks and the like do not allow you to type url’s into your browser. They could also block you from viewing certain web sites. So I’m hosting a proxy web browser here to circumvent that. Enter a URL here and this server will make the request on your behalf. Images will still be loaded [...]
December 1, 2005
take care of your customers, or else…
Thomas Hawk had a bad experience with an online retailer, PriceRitePhoto, and so he wrote about it on his blog. What happens? His story becomes the #1 story on digg, makes it to http://del.icio.us/popular, gets Slashdotted & MetaFiltered. The store gets slammed with phone calls, bad press online, and their site goes down due to [...]
