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Yesterday and this morning the monsters at Business Insider were click baiting their readers with the spurious headline/link “Google will be making your Profile public.”  That claim is simply not true.  As of August 1st, Google will simply be deleting private Google profiles.  How does this impact you?  it doesn’t. I’m pissed I even wasted [...]

I have a PHP application that is is on a shared hosting provider.  I have no access to cron or anything else to run a scheduled task.  I can’t fake cron by relying on a visitor to the application to call a PHP function to run the task.  So, I set up a scheduled task [...]

I bought the Jawbone ICON, “The Thinker”, in December 2010.  In fact, I’ve had every Jawbone they’ve offered save the new ERA which was just released.  Overall, the Jawbone’s have been the best bluetooth headsets I’ve ever owned and I’ve owned A LOT of them. Unfortunately, my ICON kept losing the pairing with my Droid [...]

Dear Google Voice: Please buy PhoneTag and integrate their transcription technology immediately. That is all. V/R, Calmighty

I’ve been using Google Voice for a long time now.  Outside of the horrible voice transcription, my only gripe has been that contacts in Google were not synced to Google Voice.  I just added a contact to my Google account this morning and when I went to add it to Google Voice it was already [...]

That “know nothing” would be me.  Here’s a thought.  Before the z4Root app was released, you needed a tool and sbf file to flash your Android device.  This tool, RSDLite, and the proper SBF’s were supposedly leaked and found their way into the wild.  Posting of the RSDLite executable was met with DMCA takedown notices. [...]

I have at least 10 posts to finish up and publish.  What I’m realizing lately and especially since I don’t keep this blog up-to-date is that you only have so much time to get everything handled.  I don’t do this for you, the reader.  I do it for me.  Honestly, I don’t care if anyone [...]

I said it once and I’ll say it again, businesses fail because they either have a crappy manager or a flawed business plan that should have been discovered before the first “brick” was layed.  However, businesses also fail becuase they are not sufficiently capitalized. The capitalization costs associated with your startup are something that should [...]

All the good ones are gone, right?  Not exactly.  A buddy of mine makes $200/day with an absolutely ridiculous domain name.  He registered it years ago, threw up some CJ links and just left it alone.  Now, he is the exception for sure.  He has some really amazing one word domains from 1995 or so. [...]

I’ve been ranting to anyone who’ll listen for years that I absolutely hate voice mail.  For the past couple of years, I have actually waited as long as possible or until my mailbox was full before I’d listen to my messages.  Interestingly, my mom is the only one who realizes she can call me and [...]