Best Viewed in Firefox — Here's another joke support email. I found out that a potential advertiser tried to create an ad but BlogAds didn't work. I looked into it and it turns out that the BlogAds website barely works anymore. I sent them an email explaining that I would get...

Macs are so Easy — I always hear Mac users telling the world how much easier it is to use then a PC. When I ask what exactly is easier, I can never get a straight answer other than "It's SO COOL!" In my other life, I get emails like this all day. i cannot use the...

Yahoo! is Stupid! — My 7-yr-old son is very interested in chess. He wants me to put it on his computer. So, I decided that I'd set him up with Yahoo! chess. I tried to create a Yahoo! account so that he could play chess. Yahoo! wanted me to enter a credit card number in...

Shopping.com Partner Program — Today, I decided to sign up for Shopping.com Partner Program. They have an API that I can use to place CPC ads on my website. I'll report back later with a full review. The sign-up was not easy. I got an error try to sign-up with IE7. The error happens...

$224,664 — dnScoop values KBCafe at $224,664. Not bad for a hobby site :-) My Site is worth$224,644 How much isyour site worth?...

Sitemap Validator — Today, I completed my Sitemap Validator. It validates two versions of the sitemap XML, both indexes and sitemaps and it also iteratively validates all the sitemaps within a sitemap index. http://reblinks.therssweblog.com/sitemap.validator.aspx...

Web 3.0? — This might be Web 3.0. You have to view the samples in Firefox. This could contribute to the death of Flash. It's basically a graphics library written for Javascript. http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/...

Fire Your Best Programmer — More and more, I'm coming to the conclusion that who managers think is their best programmer, is often their worse. So, managers could fire their best programmers and improve their organizations. Here's why. If you ask a junior programmer...

Refactoring — In the last couple days, I merged 5 webpages that were very similar, reducing the total line count down from 5000 to 1500. It was a lot of scary work, but now that it's complete, I can make bigger changes without having to write the code 5 times. A step...

Pontiac Montana SV6 — Pics of the new van. Get the code from MySpaceLayoutStore. var imgs903786e53e8b465faf9e3744843c3bf9 = Array(); var current903786e53e8b465faf9e3744843c3bf9 = 0; var interval903786e53e8b465faf9e3744843c3bf9 =...

Hotest Wings in Brampton — Last week, I went to Casey's Grill Bar on Great Lakes Dr in Brampton. I had been snacking all day, so I decided against ordering a meal. On the other hand, I knew we'd be there awhile, so I got a double order of Casey's Wings. I usually get...

Pontiac Montana SV6 — Yesterday, my wife bought a Pontiac Montana SV6 from Frost for less than $20K (all inclusive). No options. On the lot. Red. She'll pick it up on Monday. Our old Venture mini-van was getting costly. http://gm.ca/gm/english/vehicles/pontiac/sv6/overview...

Enclosures in MT4 — Today, I searched the Internet for a method of exposing the RSS <enclosure> tag for images already attached as assets of an entry in MT4 (Movable Type). It was not easy. I searched for about an hour before I came up with the following. Here's...

NewsAlloy on Deathbed — NewsAlloy, a semi-popular RSS news reader, may go offline in the next few days. I received an email this morning warning me to back-up my OPML as their hosting arrangement is nearing its end. They are looking for new hosting. This might be an interesting...

The Link in MT4 — Today, I got my first look at Movable Type 4 as I needed to setup an RSS template that includes a <link> in every <item>. But, I can't find a solution. Where do I put the link? I swear I remember doing this in previous version of MT....

Right Scam FollowUp — I thought I'd follow up on the RightFielders scam I uncovered. BlogAds sent me an email, indicating they had previously received complaints about RightPundits and were already investigating the issue. They asked them to change the wording on their order...

Right Ad Scam — Today, I discovered an ad scam on the BlogAds network. I first came upon the fraudulent network a few weeks ago when I started to get a ton of referrers from them. When I checked into the referrers, it turned out it was referrer spam (not...

Big Spammer! — Over the years, I've had lots of comment spammers, but none have consistantly spammed me like BigCrumb. No link to them for obvious reasons. If you look at their website, they say no spam. If you look in their fact, they say no spam. Yet, day-in,...

I Couldn't Holdem — On Wednesday night, I entered a Texas Holdem tournament. It was my second tournament ever. The previous time, I lost on the 3rd hand. This time, I did much better. I made it to the final table, placing 7th of 39 gamblers. On the last hand, the...

Pocono Test Days — With my purchase of tickets to the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono, I get 4 free tickets to the test sessions (children under 12 free) on May 27th (12:30PM to 7PM) and 28th (9AM to 5PM). I have to order the tickets by May 16th. Not sure if I can go because...

Pennsylvania 500 — Today, I purchased tickets for the Pennsylvania 500 (August 3rd). A 2-day pass was only $150 to park the RV in the infield with three kids, my wife and I. That's pretty good value. It's about 7 hours from Brampton. View Larger Map...