Archive for November, 2005

PC Magazine 2005 Gift Guide

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

PC Magazine have now presented their 2005 Holiday Gift Guide. These are some of their choices.
Cell phones
Best Overall: Sony Ericsson W800i
Best Cingular:Nokia 6682
Best Nextel: Nextel i355
Best Sprint PCS: Sprint VI-125
Best T-Mobile: Samsung SGH-T809
Best Verizon-Wireless: Motorola E815
Desktops
Best Gaming: Voodoo Omen a121
Best Business: Lenovo ThinkCentre M51 and Apple+iMac+G5
Best Media: Dell XPS 400 and HP z555
Best […]

Bug fixed in Ip lookup

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Hostip.info changed their url for ip geo look ups which resulted in no data being returned my site. This bug has been fixed.
I have also been working some of the more advanced features with Google Analytics. I have setup Goals, people going from the eBay mashups to eBay. I can now see patterns of […]

eBay bargains and not so good deals

Monday, November 21st, 2005

eBay is a great place for bargains. But many sellers are unrealistic. The worst deals can be found in used Notebook Computers. People have a hard time accepting that prices are cut in half in a couple of months.
There are some bargains to found. The best notebook bargains can be found in auctions directly […]

My Name is Earl casting losing it

Friday, November 18th, 2005

The first eposodes of, the pilot (the main characters), Quit Smoking episode (2, Silas Weir Mitchell), Faked His Own Death (episode 4, Beth Riesgraf) and Teacher Earl (episode 5, Giovanni Ribisi) all had great casting.
But recently the casting have been so-so. More crazy criminals like, Giovanni Ribisi and Silas Weir Mitchell are […]

Human activity reported at Google

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

For the first time in my four year relationship with Google somebody actually did something in response to an email from me. The did something that activated my Google Analytics account. After all the bots have not taken over at Google yet.

Bad Google day

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

I received a email this morning from Google Adsense notifying me that it is not possible to change the email address associated with a Google Adsense account. The reason I wanted to change the address is that Google just started to use Google Accounts for Adsense. And I started using Adsense before there were Google […]

Canon 5D review and forum comments

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

The best digital photo resource, dpreview.com, has released the highly anticipated review of the Canon EOS 5D. The review is extremely ambtious and extensive.
In short, the review is very favorable. The 5D offers almost the same image quality as the 1Ds MKII. The 5D has a smaller buffer and is not weather sealed.
There does […]

How can a digital camera have different ISO settings

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

I take a lot of pictures and have a digital slr. People often ask me how it is possible to change the sensitivity of the camera, the ISO setting.
There is a pretty good explanation at cambridgeincolour.com. A good analogy that most could relate to is the recording level of a microphone. If you […]