Rob Lifford

So, there’s this search engine called Blingo that gives away prizes a few times a day—iPods, Playstations, Visa gift cards, and other goodies. All the search results are actually just Google results, so you might as well be using Blingo instead and getting a chance to win something every time you search the web (actually, […]

…getting to know all about Ubuntu.

A look at some of the oldest still-registered dot com domains.

If you’d asked me yesterday what I think of my web hosting company, I’d have told you I was satisfied with the pricing and the service. Ask me tomorrow and I’ll tell you I’m proud to be their customer. Here’s why: …if your billing address in our system was in a zip code affected by […]

In case the title needs explainin’… dotlet = daughter in the family vernacular. Anyhow, there’s new Violety goodness in our Yahoo! Photos account: Added more photos to the June/July album I started a few weeks ago. Seems I’d forgotten all of June. Ahem. Started an August 2005 album too. Here’s a teaser, a result of […]

Time for a change. Last night I installed WordPress here on greasy elbow, exported all my posts from Blogger, and imported all my comments from BlogBack. I was amazed at how easy the entire process was, especially considering that BlogBack is not the most widely-deployed 3rd party comment system… the whole thing worked out so […]