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Those of you who are visiting my site in IE will notice my new alert, generated by the Spread Firefox plugin for WordPress. Quoth the alert: “Internet Explorer sucks. Jordy recommends Firefox (a free open-source alternative) so your browsing will suck no more forever. Click here to learn more or download.”
It’s a little spammy […]

Berkley Data Systems has a great new disk backup service called Mozy. You get up to 2GB for free and can get up to 20GB for a very affordable yearly fee. So far the clients only works on Windows, but there are plans to support other platforms as well.
One cool thing about the […]

That’s right. I finally broke down and joined Netflix. Actually, I’d already signed on for 2 free weeks during my last semester of college. Of course, I had to drop it right away because of the student budget. I had a series of massive papers and a presentation examining the online […]

It looks like Google Finance is now up. It has a bunch of cool features, including links to related blog posts and a really snappy (albeit flash) ticker view that allows you to change the charted period dynamicly. Very sharp.
This should come as a major blow Yahoo, which now has to play catch […]

Richard Miller had a great post about including rel=”nofollow” into an anchor tag so that you can link to a site without helping their Google Juice.
I probably should have known that, but didn’t. It would have been perfect for my recent post on a local phishing scam. Although it would have made very […]

Here’s an Omniture white paper that gives a good introduction to SEO and SEM concepts. Although it’s obviously pretty Omniture centric, it does cover the basics, focusing mostly on maximizing profit from paid search.

Fedora Core 5 is out. Here are the release announcement, release summary, release notes, mirrors, and torrents.
For those who don’t know, “Fedora Core is [a Red Hat sponsored] operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a […]

My brother set up a Utah Open Source planet to aggregate posts from anyone who’s an “Open Source FRIEND/USER/HACKER/ZEALOT” in Utah. If you live in Utah, love open source, and want to be aggregated, just follow his submission instructions.
Other good resources for Utah Open Source Junkies:
Utah Valley Linux User Group
Greater Utah BSD User Group
Ogden […]

I just finished setting up Planet blog aggregation software on planet.provolabs.com. It clearly needs some CSS work done on it, but all of the functionality is there.
I was worried that (without an prepackaged RPM) setting it up would be difficult, but installation was much easier than I anticipated. Because it’s just a python […]

There’s a pretty decent Utah business blog that’s coming together as part of Provo Labs upcoming blog network.  Utah Monitor aims to cover significant Utah business news, a lot of it well before it hits the mainstream press.  I think this site has a lot of potential.