Tag: slashdot
Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party
October 28th, 2007, No Comments
On Friday night, I attended the Slashdot 10th anniversary party. Well, I attended the one in Dallas, anyway. There were others all over the world. It was a fairly uneventful event. For reasons known only to himself, the organizer chose to have it in a small, noisy bar despite many suggestions of better (i.e. bigger, [...]
Nigritude Ultramarine Update
May 28th, 2004, No Comments
While it’s unlikely that my Nigritude Ultramarine FAQ is going to reach the number one spot on Google by July 7, it’s been more than worthwhile participating in the Dark Blue SEO contest so far. I’ve been able to document a lot of the search engine activity and have learned some new things. For example, [...]
Nigritude Ultramarine Update
May 14th, 2004, No Comments
Since my last post, the Nigritude Ultramarine FAQ, my entry in the SEO contest has been indexed by Google and is now showing up in the results. Unlike the hundreds of other pages out there, this is one of a handful that are actually intended to be interesting. It’s also one of the few that’s [...]
Nigritude Ultramarine
May 10th, 2004, No Comments
A recent slashdot article brought to my attention the DarkBlue SEO Challenge, a contest with the goal of getting a webpage to the number one position in Google’s results for the search phrase “nigritude ultramarine”. I decided to take a whack at it despite the unfortunate choice of words (most people I’ve mentioned it to [...]
Experiencing The Slashdot Effect
August 6th, 2002, No Comments
We were on the receiving end of the slashdot effect last Tuesday. The timeline went something like this: 00:22 – Roger Arrick emails a link to a web page he just finished about his new computer chair. 09:59 – I finally check my email, and click up Roger’s web page. Recognizing Slashdot material when I [...]
Living Life and Writing About It
March 29th, 2002, No Comments
Life and Stories Yikes, I’ve let too much time slip past since my last entry again! Seems like when I’m doing things worth writing about I get too busy to write. And when I have time to write it’s because I’m not out doing anything worth writing about. Didn’t Sartre say something along those lines? [...]
Technocrat: RIP
January 5th, 2001, No Comments
Looks like Bruce Perens is shutting down Technocrat. That’s unfortunate. Technocrat is one of the small number of news sites that I read regularly and it had a much better s/n ratio than Slashdot and Kuro5hin. And while I find there’s usually a lot of overlap between the other news sites, quite a few of [...]
Going to a Live Auction
August 27th, 2000, No Comments
Susan and I went to a computer auction saturday and picked up a few interesting odds and ends. Live auctions are strange; they can be really boring sometimes and a lot of fun other times. But eBay is a lot more convenient most of the time. All the work with JSP and servlets that I’ve [...]
