Everybody knows who the domain name "microsoft.com" belongs to--that 10-ton gorilla from Redmond. But what about hansen.com? That could be any of many millions of individuals. Let's take a slightly simpler example: hansens.com. That could be any one of probably hundreds of companies--some big, some small, some in one industry and some in another. Unfortunately,...
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Here's my proposal for a phonetic spelling system for English.

1) The only time letters might be doubled is when a vowel sound is held out long, for example, the end of "Utah".

2) Many schwas are not represented by a letter--if there's really a vowel sound in there, we don't punt and call it...
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The NBA's homepage is busted. When you arrive, there's a humongous ad at the top of the page. If that were the only problem, I wouldn't be writing this (even though I'd still think it stinks), because I'd be able to scroll down to the content I wanted to see and be on my merry...
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English spelling is so busted, it sometimes amazes me that the language has been so successful. Take the letter "a" for example. Notice how it's pronounced differently in each of the following words:

At

About

Father

Aim

Okay, there's a rule for the last one: "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the...
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If your search engine optimization efforts are focused solely and capturing visitors who are searching for products like yours, you may be missing a huge chunk of your market. Don't forget about those people who are looking for complementary products, services and information.

Over the last six months, some of the things I've done that...
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The package for my son's diapers says "22-37 lbs", but there is absolutely no way they could hold that much stuff without leaking!

Rather than simply dropping the Hubble Space Telescope out of orbit and letting it burn up in the atmosphere, NASA should pull it into the the space shuttle's bay on its next flight, bring it back to earth, and sell it, piece by piece, on eBay!

As the details of the Atom format are tuned in preparation for publishing the 1.0 version of the specification, a question that has been touched on before has been raised again: should feeds be required to link to an alternative representation of their data, ie. must each feed carry the same content as an associated...
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How To Use The Multiplier Effect In Web Marketing describes how to use free eBooks and writing eZine articles for others' eZines to build traffic and links to your website. They also mention link exchanges--just be careful it you do that not to get involved in "link farms", where links are exchanged in bulk between...
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Here's a message I've attempted twice to post to Bugtraq, but it appears to have been lost both times. Traffic on Bugtraq has been spotty lately. It talks about a security problem with Blogger's handling of comments:

Having notified Blogger of this twice over the course of a number of months, and not seeing them...
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