Monthly Archives: May 2004

Entire Staff of TechTV Fired

TechTV has been going through a lot lately. Leo Laporte, host of the only decent show on the channel, reports in his blog that Comcast has fired the entire staff of TechTV. The only thing TechTV had is the show Leo once hosted, The ScreenSavers. Call for Help is nice on some days, but I’ve…Continue Reading…

CDs, DVDs not so immortal

Users that bend a DVD to remove it from a hard-gripping case are practically begging for this problem, because flexing the disc puts strain on the glue. Rewriteable CDs and DVDs, as opposed to write-once discs, should not be used for long-term storage because they contain a heat-sensitive layer that decays much faster than the…Continue Reading…

Google Search: orkut

Looks like Google is having some problems with orkut… and they’re advertising this in AdWords. Strange… Sponsored Links orkut social network We are currently having problems with orkut.com. Please check later www.orkut.com Source: Google Search: orkut Well, that’s what happens when you try to use Microsoft ASP for a production web application!

Search Terms – April 2004

Top 20 of 82 Total Search Strings # Hits Search String 1 77 27.60% unexpected paypal server error: 4028 2 27 9.68% fugue for tinhorns 3 14 5.02% what icons are doing while you sleep 4 12 4.30% paypal error 4028 5 6 2.15% paypal server error 4028 6 6 2.15% site:www.intelliot.com unexpected paypal server…Continue Reading…

Search Strings – March 2004

This site, intelliot.com, started March 8, so these statistics don’t cover the whole month of March, but they’re interesting anyway. Top 20 of 54 Total Search Strings # Hits Search String 1 14 9.33% elliot in the morning 2 10 6.67% google cookie 3 6 4.00% most dangerous virus 4 5 3.33% mo3 microsoft 5…Continue Reading…

Gmail Search Rocks

Google’s new free webmail service isn’t about the 1 GB space. It’s about amazing search technology. Forget filing and organizing email messages. That’s a thing of the past. With Gmail, you just type in a word or two that you remember from the email you’re looking for, and hit “Search Mail”. Instantly, the message appears….Continue Reading…