Frederick’s Timelog

Browsing the Web

If you surf the Internet often or at least use the World Wide Web for purposes other than education and work, then perhaps you should take part in this survey.

This is just a very simple 3-step questionnaire about “Browsing the Web“. The 7 questions include:

• How often do you surf the Internet?
• Which operating system do you use?
• What browser do you use the most?

If you provide your name and e-mail address after the 3-step questionnaire, you will receive a $0.50 credit for FreddyWare Web Services, so you can register a domain name at prices as low as $5.50! (This is even lower than our always-low prices, which start at $6.00.)

Take the survey now.
http://go.geekie.org/browsingsurvey

As always, your personal information is protected under the Privacy Policy of FreddyWare.

Affiliate earnings

Proof that it’s possible to earn a good sum of money from affiliate marketing, or, in this case, by promoting a great product. (Sorry, some information had to be removed to protect myself.)

In this particular case, the “great product” was WebEx PCNow, for which I wrote an article on my Geekie.org blog. Apparently, someone had clicked through to WebEx after reading my article, left the site to do more research elsewhere, and then went back to WebEx and signed up. Even though the sale didn’t happen directly after reading my article, thanks to cookies, this person has now generated about $35 of revenue.

If you’re wondering how you can get in on the action, just join a program like AdSense which has referral ads, other networks like LinkShare.com or Commission Junction.

Murphy’s Technology Laws

Some of the quotes mentioned at the Murphy Laws Site have been very useful… for my Windows Live Messenger custom message.

I believe it is, at the moment, “All impossible failures, will happen at the test site.”

Some of my favourites:

• If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.
• If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
• When all else fails, read the instructions.

Find them here.

Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post-9/11 World (ISBN 1-59102-234-7):
This is an excellent book that I started reading recently. It discusses various issues surrounding the U.S. government following the events of September 11, 2001. The major sections in this book include:

1. History of civil liberty issues in wartime (inc. an excerpt from another highly-recommended book, All the Laws but One)
2. Domestic surveillance and the USA PATRIOT Act
3. Racial profiling
4. Torture
5. “Enemy combatants” and the detainment of foreigners
6. Recent developments such as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal

More after the jump.

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Importance of China

I recently saw something while using StumbleUpon that really resonated with an important message I would like to point out: China is not only becoming the next super-power, it is already extremely powerful in the world simply due to trade. Ironic, isn’t it, that capitalism is what allows a semi-Communist country to hold some power over the rest of the nations?

What would products cost if the US banned trade with China as part of “sanctions”? What would be the economic impact? How would consumers respond, or more importantly, how would 2+ billion Chinese people react?

Consider these questions, and get back to me (using the comments feature).

Conservatives violated elections law

Breaking news - Elections Canada claims the Conservative Party violated elections law when they spent money for campaigns in excess of the permitted limit.

This information should be covered by Nikola’s Musik, but it seems he’s not watching the news tonight.

Read more about this at the Toronto Star.

Werfugarwee

Stupid humour? I think not. (And yes, I do have a sense of humour.)

Click on the video image itself to go to YouTube, where you can rate the video or add to the 2513 text comments.

Viatron Owns You

Since the response so far to this poll has been in the positive (saying you would watch videos that I embed here), below is another humorous video which parodies the producer’s experiences with Viacom.

“Viatron” is a fictitious name used to refer to Viacom, which took actions against the producer for some of his earlier music videos. This was due to an error with their automatic copyright protection program, which removed his works (ie. totally original); however, the accusations have now been dropped.

This video actually has 1138 text comments at the time of posting, so you get an insight into the sort of reach that this person has.