http://idiotabroad.com if the meek shall inherit the earth, than surely the idiots will rule the world Mon, 05 May 2008 14:54:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The turkish courts, blissfully unaware that we are in the 21st Century, have banned Youtube again today (May 5th, 2008). It was up this morning, but now Turkish users see the following: http://idiotabroad.com/2008/05/youtube-banned-in-turkey-again/ Sounds like a charity pledge, and it sort is! If you have a lot of bookmarks in del.icio.us or ma.gnolia, please sign up for an account at Nsyght and import them. Nsyght is a social search engine, currently in alpha, and we need all the bookmarks we can get to ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/10/bookmark-drive/ Its been a fun few years blogging under idiotabroad, but I feel the time may be coming to move on. Nsyght has pretty much devoured whatever free time I do have, so at the moment any blogging will be done under the banner of Nsyght. Once I do get more ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/09/idiot-finally-grows-up/ I've been a customer of Lloyds TSB for over 6 years, but today takes the cake. They have hooked up with a third party email marketing company to spam me about changes to a service I have never used nor signed up for. Additionally, I have always selected to opt-out ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/09/lloyds-tsb-spamming-customers/ It looks like my favorite crack addition aka pownce, is down! Oh no, how will I waste my time now??? http://idiotabroad.com/2007/08/is-pownce-down/ What a long road this has been to this day. It started with a cocktail napkin, and now we are rapidly closing in on our finished product, our beta. What is Nsyght? Well we are keeping things pretty close to the vest for now, but suffice it to say ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/08/nysght-accepting-beta-applications/ Outsourcing/Offshoring is seen by many to be a panacea for improving the bottom line. But for a great many of us, offshoring a development project is a great way to be like the big boys, and build something you would otherwise not be able to afford to do locally. Outsourcing ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/07/how-to-outsource-your-technical-development/ Haven't posted actual details of my development for a while now. So how are things going? 1. Logo design - complete 2. Server procurement - complete 3. Rack/build/configure of said server - complete 4. Web template design - in progress 5. UI development - in progress 6. Back-end development - nearing completion 7. Patent application - ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/07/prototype-update/ To a de-lux colocated server, in the sky-hi. Ok, enough Jefferson's riffs for one day. Just a quick note to say I've started migrating my sites (including this blog) over to my new colo host, colopronto in Miami. So far so good, and I am well impressed with the performance! ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/07/movin-on-up-to-the-east-side/ It's been an agonizing few weeks playing the waiting game with various folks. First up, I ordered a standalone server to act as a backbone of the prototype. I've had dedicated servers for years, never my own. I needed to have maximum RAM and storage, and the costs of having ... http://idiotabroad.com/2007/07/playing-the-waiting-game-with-my-colo-host/