Month: July 2007

  • The Blogging Tip Meme

    Leo Chiang just invited me to take part in a new meme to get more backlinks to your blog. This new meme is called “The Blogging Tip Meme” and by participating in it you may get more visitors to your site, higher rankings in Google, a higher Google PR (yeah a toolbar PR update is…

  • Comment spam gets smarter – but not smart enough

    My site DV Hardware has a pretty big admin module and features a page that I scripted a couple of years ago where I can keep track of all the new comments that users have posted on my site. I check this page a couple of times a day to see what visitors say or to…

  • Lawn care company offers Bikini Service

    A three months-old lawn care company from Memphis, Tenn. is rapidly gaining popularity thanks to its special Tiger Time Bikini Lawn Care service which will send some scantily-clad young girls your way to cut your lawn. Lee Cathey, owner of Tiger Time Lawn Care, says some customers just sit in their lawn chairs with a beer while watching…

  • Nigerian kids use OLPCs for porn

    The News Agency of Nigeria reported last week that Nigerian schoolchildren are using the computers they’ve received from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to surf to pornographic sites. NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops.”Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in…

  • Mr. Brooks review

    Mr. Brooks is a psychological thriller about a guy called Earl Brooks. On the outside he seems perfectly normal, he’s a family man, owns a successful business and was just named Portland Chamber of Commerce’s Man of the Year. However, Earl has a big secret: he’s sometimes possessed by a dark alter-ego called Marshall which…