http://www.wiredcrow.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 17 May 2009 07:31:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The search for good widescreen wallpapers always astounded me, for it's so hard to find good ones it seems!  With the increasing number of conversions to widescreen LCDs, I'm still amazed to find a lack of good widescreen wallpapers, or maybe I'm just not looking at the right place. With that ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=141 Apologies everyone, things have been a little hectic lately to make a decent post.  I've been busy making another wordpress theme as well as designing ads for the upcoming Anime Evolution 2009.  Check out the link and let me know what you think of the layout. I've been giving some serious ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=138 I posted previously about a problem my friend was having with his Facebook account and how it got disabled without warning, because apparently his use of name was violating Terms of Use. Here's the response my friend got back. Guys, beware! According to this email reply, even if ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=127 There's been a wave of Facebook checking and deleting accounts as they see fit. In the past couple months, Facebook has been taking hits on their terms and conditions, as well as their privacy policy.  But here's something new to think about. My friend had registered a Facebook account with a name, ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=122 I gave a small lecture today on to a class of senior computer science undergrads on the importance of looking beyond the coding.  It wasn't my first time doing it (actually it was my second) but I definitely got a bit of an interesting story to tell about this one. I ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=116 Morning convo with kdmurray again (thanks for the tweet-out this morning), he showed me a nifty tool: http://tweetstats.com/graphs/wired_crow Incidentally, he also made the following statement: "I'm such a stats wh0re.. lol" All that aside, it's interesting how everything we do can be and needs to be justified by numbers.  ROI (with usually investment ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=111 My coworker and I were having a discussion this morning on when Twitter will go corporate in some way - that is, when are they going to sell and then to whom? When are they going to really concentrate on marketing beyond the average user, and capitalize on the ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=103 update: I've completed mirroring the new site with new domain (www.wiredcrow.com) and have done a hard htaccess to point from www.infinite-voices.com to here.  Submitted my cancellation notice with uplinkearth via email, and have requested for authorization code to move the domain to godaddy.  I haven't heard good things online about ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=97 So I finally caved and signed up for twitter (for those that don't know, it's a microblogging site).  I know, it's a little behind the times, considering I'm one of the few people that probably have the oldest avatar on Second Life...but that aside, something really strike me as funny ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=83 With the revamp of this site, turning it into a blog, I've been struggling with a few things.  One was the domain name (www.infinite-voices.com) which was a domain I selected way WAY back before I knew better and had the foresight to see anything like personal branding being an issue. The ... http://www.wiredcrow.com/?p=78