A big thumbs down to Toshiba for their negligent decision to not offer any refunds to people who trusted them enough in the last couple of years to buy one of their HD DVD players. More »
Like almost all websites, the overwhelming majority of our visitors come to us via a search engine. Knowing that Google dominates, I was nevertheless curious to look at our own statistics, just to see to what extent. Our top 50 referrers, over the last couple of years, look something like this: RankReferrerVisits 1google.com12,611 2google.com.au3,038 3google.co.uk1,888 4search.live.com1,279 5google.ca1,119 6blogs.smh.com.au878 7wordpress.org817 8google.co.in674 9google.de390 10google.nl336 11google.fr239 12basicthinking.de211 13google.it210 14search.yahoo.com202 15google.es201 16google.se199 17google.be171 18search.ninemsn.com.au168 19search.msn.com165 20google.pl165 21sitepoint.com155 22google.co.za148 23google.com.br147 24google.co.nz135 25google.com.sg118 26drupal.org111 27google.com.ph109 28google.dk109 29google.fi99 30google.com.my99 31google.ro97 32google.ch95 33google.pt93 34google.ie84 35google.no81 36google.co.id78 37google.com.tr77 38google.com.mx71 39blogs.theage.com.au70 40ask.com70 41google.gr66 42google.hu62 43images.google.com58 44google.com.ar58 45google.cz57 46sergey.gershtein.net55 47google.ru55 48stopbitacleorg.wordpress.com52 49google.com.hk48 50plagiarismtoday. More »
A few days ago the folks over at the SMH Mashup Blog asked “does whitepages search suck?”. The overwhelming reply was along the lines of “yes, it does suck”. More »
MS Outlook uses a “tracking option” which enables the sender of an email to determine when the recipient has actually read it. If, like me, you find this “feature” an intrusion of privacy, you can do something about it. More »