Contents tagged with Rants

  • Joe versus the volcano

    After reading Mark's entry about Joe versus the Volcano I decided that I'd go out and hire it for a look.  Finding a video store which had it in stock wasn't that easy, even asking for it raised eyebrows - this is not surprising given that the film was released at about the same time that some of the staff who were serving me were born.

  • Random quotes

    "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
    - Orson Scott Card

  • A lazy Saturday afternoon...

    This week seemed to take forever and just felt like one of those really heavy weeks.  I think that it started when I opened my mouth and spoke up against the tide of "professional demonstrators" who follow each other around and see it as their job to heckle the IE product.  Then, I seemed to spend the remainder of the weekend reading every blogger take their turn to bag the crap out of a hundred or so people who have asked Microsoft not to end support of VB6 - makes you wonder really... I think that everybody must be getting restless while they wait for Beta 2 to arrive ;-)

  • Kanoodle offers bucks and extended reach for bloggers

    Kanoodle, an online contextual ad player, is targetting bloggers as the new wave of publishers to supplement its recently announced BrightAds advertising tool.  BrightAds is similar to Google's AdSense and some of the Moreover products in that they insert category-targeted contextual ads into content.