Skype, the Ebay-owned voice over IP (VOIP) company recently announced some changes to their SkypeOut offering. SkypeOut allows you to place phone calls from any computer with broadband access to any phone in the US and Canada (with per-minute fees for international calls) Previously, Skype had been offering SkypeOut free for the last six months […]
WordPress Blogs and Google’s Supplemental Index
It seems that WordPress-based blogs have a tendency to be dropped into Google’s Supplemental Index pretty quickly. The general consensus is that this is due to the duplication of content present within WordPress. A typical installation will generate a minimum of five instances of a post – more if the post is identified in multiple […]
Miami Vice
Movie: Miami Vice (Unrated Director’s Cut) My Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Where to start? Overall, Miami Vice the film captured the theme of the TV show very well. Reading some of the reviews at the time of the theatrical release, I think most people tend to forget that the TV show did have a […]
Panasonic 42″ Plasma (TH-42PX60U)
I researched for months before jumping in on this 42″ Plasma TV from Panasonic. The 2006 is the same model – in a different case – that received a best buy rating from Consumer Reports in 2005. The picture is stunning and the wide range of visibility provided by Plasma screens fits our living room […]
Superman Returns
Movie: Superman Returns (DVD – Widescreen Edition) My Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Superman Returns gives a valiant effort to match the original Superman movies. The original Superman and Superman II with the late Christopher Reeves are classics, but I’d put peg Superman Returns right up there with them. There was a bit of a […]
Poisioning your RSS feed for Splogs
One of the sites I write for regularly has a rather large visitor base, 5k daily uniques to the site and over 2k rss feed subscribers. We’ve always published a full article feed for the convenience of our readers but in the last year we have constantly battled splogs – spam blogs who exist only […]