Under a Gibbous Moon

It’s kind of hard to tell through the snow but that’s the power lines to our building catching fire.

Before:

After:

In case anyone’s curious, there is almost two years between those shots.

Unless you’ve been living in a hole (and therefore probably not reading this) for the last several years, the death knell for traditional newspapers has been ringing. Advertising revenue is down, paper subscriptions are down, and the comics page really, really sucks.

In an attempt to prop up revenue, some newspapers are trying to wall off free-loading internet users (with hilarious results). The reason for this is that internet advertising doesn’t pay on the same scale print advertising. Pay per impression (page view) for ads are very low. Part of this is because internet ads tend to be very scattershot. Even if you are dealing with a local or regional paper, the adds tend to be for national brands, questionable weight loss products and teeth whiteners. Continue reading “A simple solution to online newspaper advertising” »

In my ongoing attempt to bring the Verizon Wireless network to its knees, I have managed to use a whopping 2.8 GB for this last billing cycle.

In case it isn’t obvious, my billing cycle ends on the 4th of the month and I pulled this today, so I didn’t just use that today.

Woke up this morning and this was sitting in my Twitter feed.

@PickettBill: RT @jforestier http://ljforestier.com/aB Not ready? Ha, is perfect for # of users. Dump the # of Windows users on Linux things fixed fast.

This is why the usability problems will not be fixed, “I’m sorry, it’s not me, it’s you.”

I think it’s time to stage an intervention.