Archive for March, 2006

Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress

Friday, March 31st, 2006

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 […]

Mozy for Free Automatic Backups

Friday, March 31st, 2006

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 […]

Netflix Fix and the Long Tail

Monday, March 27th, 2006

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 […]

Google Finance

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

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 […]

Linking with “NoFollow”

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

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 […]

Omniture Success Kit

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

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.

FC5 Released

Monday, March 20th, 2006

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 […]

Utah Open Source Bloggers

Monday, March 20th, 2006

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 […]

Planet for Blog Aggregation

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

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 […]

Utah Monitor

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

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.