Newegg: Axe the Price-Available-at-Checkout policy.
I buy things at Newegg. I have found them to be a trustworthy merchant. However, they’ve just instituted a new policy that I find irritating on a number of levels.
New Website: mjCheck.low.li
This new site provides a small free service. It posts what the latest version of magicJack’s firmware update packages for both Mac and Windows. It checks once a day on an automated schedule, and if either file has changed, an email goes out via google groups to anyone who is subscribed to the list.
Dreamhost provides shell access for users. Sometimes it helps to view the logs for websites created in those users’ names.Google Plus – The Rollout
I read this article on CNET. Google Plus has been around for months, now. I keep hearing about how fantastic it is, but most of us who clicked the ‘Keep Me Posted’ button or received
invitations can’t join because they’ve ‘temporarily exceeded maximum
capacity’ almost since the service began.
Improving Google News – Can it i-happen?
MG Siegler writes on TechCrunch.com comparing Google News with other tech news venues. He suggests that algorithms alone are not enough to make decisions about what actually is news and what is stale. His comment about re-bloggers getting purposed before the original story shows just how stale the information really is. But I have to go a couple steps further than Siegler.
