Where do you host your web site? Mr. C. emailed me recently asking about hosting recommendations. For Windows servers I suggest Crystaltech which has fabulous support and always the best. They’re even based here in Phoenix. Then for Linux I can’t really recommend any company because Tornado has a dedicated server for this purpose.
Where do you host and why are they good?
At the golf course this week. And no, I didn’t play. I had to work.
It’s currently 63 degrees as I write this in Vancouver, B.C. It will be the same tomorrow and it’s a nice cool alternative to Phoenix.
Some pictures I took today:
That’s Vancouver in the distance.
Really odd hotel I saw. All raised up on pilings.
Police boat.
Trains and a cool bridge.
The good view.
Now this is one BIG fish!
The new ice age trailer.
Here’s a big agency in North Carolina I’ve never heard of. Fifty employees.
Here’s a really good explanation of how F-Stops work in cameras. If you read only one thing, read the last set of bullet points.
ISO Standards: Inc Magazine article called So many standards to follow, so little payoff – explains how ISO compliance is good for some companies (enables you to get some major contracts) and bad for others (high cost vs rewards). Also explains the history of ISO Certification.
If you were going to sail across the ocean, or be without electricity for a while and you had to charge your laptop you could use this thingy. I’m thinking since working in the sun would be a difficult thing to do (you couldn’t see the monitor well) the idea is that you charge your laptop battery when you are not using it.
SHOWUP.COM – Phoenix events.
Warren Buffett lunch commands $351,100 on eBay. COMING SOON TO EBAY! Lunch with Chris Tingom! You can talk about anything you want or ask me any question you can think of, and the highest bidder gets to meet me for lunch anywhere in Phoenix, Arizona. Inspiration.
Have you see Wikipedia? Yes. Ok. Well, have you seen the WikiMedia? I didn’t think so. An example page on Coffee shows tons of photos of coffee and they are categorized very nicely. They’re also all free images. Pretty cool.
I wonder if this will catch on: Sandboards.
These chalk signs are pretty cool. I like the Lord of The Bings one the best.
10 Years: Amazon.com… and an interesting interview with Jeff Bezos.
Crazy story about sheep jumping off a cliff.
Nice jobs page (via Bill Brown)
Shareasale.com (Via Mister Shape)
Transportation Stock Photography… could be useful for someone, somewhere, someday.
Chess960 sounds really cool. Essentially the idea is that you set up your pawns the same way and all of the back row pieces any way you want (the black sets up a mirror image of whatever the white sets up). It removes the use of memorized openings which makes the game interesting from move #1.
Wow! This is one big honkin’ stinkin’ big giant shark!
Insane PageRank calculator tool. Read this great article about PageRank and pay attention to the charts. Interesting stuff.
This is funny: Donald Trump wants to renovate the UN for 700 million dollars, saving the UN $500 million dollars over their expected costs. How in the world do you estimate a renovation to be 1.2 billion dollars? That’s amazing. Check it out: www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/016199.html
I found some good project management articles at the Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference web site. Quite a number of them apply to the tech industry and there were some great topics. Worth a gander.
Vanilla Forum (PHP/MySQL) looks really nice. It’s new. Also, they have a FileBrowser program that’s also interesting. I haven’t tried either.
It’s FRIDAY again and that means it is time for a caption contest. Your job is to come up with a funny caption for the photo and post it in the comments. Please keep it clean. Thanks!
So I had a conversation with the folks at a major consumer kitchen appliance company recently. I wanted to talk to them about selling small appliances online. The idea was to open a series of small niche product sites.
They refused. But not just me, they told me they’re not accepting any more ecommerce companies into the mix, from anyone. That surprised me and I asked why. The conversation went something like this:
Me: “Wow, so you’re not accepting new companies to sell online?”
Them: “No, the retailers don’t like it.”
Me: “Hmmm… interesting. I think I can understand. So what about major players like Amazon.com?”
Them: “Well, we make exceptions.”
Exceptions when a lot of dough is involved, I guess. I knew that retailers didn’t like ecommerce because they can’t compete on the same scale, but I had no idea that the manufacturers would start getting involved. Retailers will do almost anything to keep their retailers happy.
I’m guessing that this might become a trend. Anyone care to comment or have a similar experience?
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