The Blog is Back.

December 21, 2009

It’s been gone for 9 months, thanks to an ill-fated career move that severely limited my freedom of speech. It sounded like a great idea, but turned out to be a nice waste of a year. I’m going on holidays just after Christmas, so I’ll have lots of time to update this blog with all [...]

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How many IM programs do you run?

December 25, 2008

We’ve all heard of subscription creep, or at least experienced it. $50 a month for internet, $35 for the phone, way too much for cable, a few magazine subscriptions, the list goes on and on. But what really got me the other day was IM creep. I was talking to a friend in Iraq via [...]

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No Free Lunch, RIAA

December 22, 2008

Although I left the ISP world about six months ago, I’ve kept a casual eye on the industry. Especially interesting to me has been the continued threat of the RIAA against file sharers in the USA. When working for Transact in Bermuda, I had the dubious honour of receiving “this user has been nasty, go [...]

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Oh Yeah…. the Blog

December 10, 2008

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted – sounds about par for the course. There are few things (online) as sad as a neglected blog. Don’t worry, kiddos, I won’t go getting all emo on y’all now. Did I use that term correctly? I’m still trying to figure out what Emo means. Is Nine [...]

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Adventures in Affiliate Marketing

October 9, 2008

Well, gentle readers, at the end of August, we packed it in for Virtual IT. Long story, and I’m sure I’ll blog about it some year soon, but for now, it’s raw and fresh. Then I spent 2 1/2 weeks in Asia. Another story, and it’s worthy of a new Category, not just a blog [...]

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How Multitasking can be bad.

August 18, 2008

Quick word – never upgrade WordPress while you’re writing a post. You’ll lose it. Guaranteed. Rob = Dumbass today.

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