We all have good ideas. Why are so few of these ever brought to light?

So, every now and then, an idea pops into my head. Occasionally, they’re good ideas. You know, ideas where you scratch your head and go, “hey, I’m not that smart, so if I thought of it, why hasn’t anyone else?”

Here’s an example. You may recall I wrote an article about the iPod interface in my Acura and how horrible it is. It got me thinking. There is a fair bit of standardization in car stereos… size, for instance. There are several standard sizes of car stereos so that aftermarket head units can fit into the dashboard of pretty much …

I saw “Iron Man” over the weekend and here’s what I thought.

The Summer movie season is beginning and the first of the potential blockbusters I saw was “Iron Man.” Yet another in a long line of “borrowed” IP remade into a shameless attempt at scoring some fast cash.

But it’s really good! Honestly. I really liked this movie.

I admit, I never read the Iron Man comics when I was younger. I was more of a Superman kind of kid. But I was at least familiar with Iron Man. However, since I am not an expert, I really cannot comment on the accuracy of the movie or how well it upheld the original. But I …

The Summer movie season has begun in earnest. I saw “Speed Racer” last night and here is what I thought.

Remakes are so risky. Especially in the common vein these days of remaking comic books or cartoons. In remaking them, you have to make a huge decision: do I make it like the original, or do I try to make a “realistic” movie based on the original? Either way, you’ll probably tick off half your potential audience. “Speed Racer” both succeeds and fails all at once.

Okay, so let’s set the scene. I am rapidly approaching the point in my life where I have to put a “4″ at the beginning of my age. As …

Can Pascal’s Wager be applied to the Global Climate Change debate?

There’s a guy, apparently a science teacher, who has a series of videos out on the web where he tries to simplify the debate about Global Warming to a very rudimentary decision. Essentially, he purports, if we do nothing, then the possibility of global catastrophe exists. However, if we start immediate and widespread change against CO2 emissions, then the worst thing that could happen (complete economic ruin) isn’t that bad.

Search YouTube for “manpollo” and you’ll see a list of this guy’s (I have no idea what his name is) videos on the subject. He’s bright, but I think he’s missed the boat on some things.

Essentially, he sets …

If you have read some of my prior posts you know I’m a big fan of registering your domains at Namecheap.

Godaddy may have a lot TV presence (with Danica Patrick and Amanda Beard as their pitch women) but they also have a lot of garbage you have to wade through to finally checkout on their site, and Network Solutions, well don’t get me started.

The place for my domains is Namecheap, and each month they offer a special coupon code for new domain registrations. And the May coupon code is MAYFLOWERS, which gets you nearly a buck off from $9.29 to $8.41 per new domain for one year.

If you wish to register your domain for a period longer …

To those that said such things couldn’t or wouldn’t happen, here’s some back up of my point.

Not so long ago I posted a blog about DRM and its evils. To me, the biggest is that DRM’ed music isn’t purchased at all. It’s only rented. Eventually, any DRM scheme that depends on heading out to the interweb to authorize the user is doomed to eventual shutdown.

According to an Engadget article MSN is already shutting down its support for the MSN Music service. They even mention iTunes (as I did), even though it was a bit of hyperbolistic fear-mongering. But it is true. If you purchase a record or a cassette tape or a CD …

Apple has updated their AppleTV software and I feel this makes it a far more viable product to have.

I have been down on the AppleTV because it wasn’t a true DVR.  It still isn’t, as it can’t record video, but at the time it was little more than a media extender.  I never found much use for media extenders, unless they could be had ultra cheap.  But the new software, dubbed Take Two, makes the AppleTV a much better product, full of more useful features.

I have been using my AppleTV for several months now, and I bought it shortly before the new software version rolled out, so I got to see the improvements.  Some of these are cosmetic, but most …

If you are a seasoned webmaster you no doubt know the power and importance of proper search engine optimization (SEO). But SEO is not that easy a skill to conquer, and a confusing one at that. Much like getting opinions from doctors, query five different so-called “SEO experts” on the best practices and you’ll likely get five different answers. And so it is.
In my mind, securing a strong ranking in the Google search positions means coming to terms with the Holy Trinity of High Rankings, that is SEO, link development and content. There are many methods for rising up the search listings ladder, but I’ll stick with those three for now.

SEO in it’s simplest form is just making sure …

I shouldn’t post this, but I am going to. What the hell.

I’m sure many of you, especially those of you landing on this page via search, have used one of those cable laptop locks when you are traveling. I’ve used many, from the key to the combination. They seem to work well, but thing is that I lose the key or forget the combo. Anyway, part of the trials I figure.

So most recently I had a Targus Defcon CL lock get jammed on me while I was in an overseas office environment. I knew the combo, that wasn’t the problem, the darn thing just flat-out wouldn’t unlock.

Luckily my laptop was stuck in a fairly safe office area so I …

Thanks Google, thanks for March Madness. For those of you not hit, or slapped, by the mighty G this month with elevated, outrageous $10+ minimum bids for your precious keywords, you can stop reading. If you know what I’m talking about, good luck.

Every so often Google updates their Adwords quality score algorithm and in doing so crushes the campaigns of many an affiliate marketer by finding fault in their method, and forcing them to pay 10 to 20 times their current bid to remain active.

Unfortunately, looks like The G ran another such update last week wiping out a few of my campaigns in the process. Campaigns that were working, that enjoyed good click-thru-rates and that were profitable.

But The G …