Paul Jacobson

Category: Web/Tech

  • A little disappointed …

    Tertia sent around this email to a couple bloggers this morning.  I think her email is fair comment in light of the controversy over the 2007 SA Blog Awards and she gave me permission to republish it here: Hello guys i know i am a big girl, and i know i am hormonal, but i…

  • Spanning Sync sneaks in “free trial”

    Spanning Sync, the cool utility that allows Mac users to synchronise Google Calendar and iCal (both ways) has emerged from beta testing as version 1.0.  This is great news and as soon as I found out, I downloaded the latest update and installed it.  I should have been a little more cautious though, when I…

  • The controversial 2007 SA Blog Awards … revisited

    The debate over the 2007 SA Blog Awards has been pretty intense.  I had an opportunity to chat to Jonathan Cherry, the co-ordinator/facilitator of the SA Blog Awards for the last three years running about much of the criticism that has been levied against the voting process, the judges and the alignment of the stars…

  • Do you Twitter?

    For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is a web application that is intended to answer a question: What are you doing now?

  • A cruise missile from space …

    The Register has a pretty impressive photo taken from space of a cruise missile of some kind flying over Utah.  The image appears in Google Earth (placemark), Google‘s beloved satellite imaging software.  Someone must really have been scouring the skies for that one to have picked it up!  Here are the images: And here is…

  • The Aquila Couch Sessions … part 4

    And here is the final installment of the Aquila Couch Sessions. In this final part we chat about the upcoming Blog Awards and some community building. We hope you have enjoyed these videos and would love to hear what you think about them? Do you want to see similar interviews on this site in the…

  • WordPress 2.1.1 is “dangerous” – Upgrade to 2.1.2 now!

    Matt Mullenweg has pubished an important post to the WordPress Blog.  The recent WordPress 2.1.1 update was comprised by a cracker and code was inserted into that version’s installation file rendering that open to attack.  To quote from the blog post: Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your…

  • The Aquila Couch Session interview … part 3

    We hope you have been enjoying the interview with Nico (aka Aquila). Here is part 3 of the interview. In this episode we talk a bit about two types of blog (the general versus the niche blog) and a mention of what may be some interesting stuff from Cherryflava (of course the Cherrypicka site is…