Gordaen's Blog

I did my monthly logging in to MySpace in order to delete the various spam friend requests and was greeted by the advertisement seen in the screenshot when I logged out. Big changes were made in Internet advertising when the thought of “context” was introduced; an ad for video games is more likely to be [...]

First off, let me say that if it really was MySpace, there would be no spam. I received a MySpace newsletter in my Gmail inbox today. The subject had been altered by SpamAssassin, which suspected the newsletter was spam, just as a previous one was. I thought, “That’s strange. I thought I picked to stop [...]

The Daily Show Website is available and looking good. It’s a nice improvement over the previous site at Comedy Central. I like having the few shows that I watch online, because I am not willing to give Comcast a penny for cable TV.

Now that my redesign has been live for a few days, I decided to spend a fair chunk of time looking through my logs, focusing on the errors and analyzing for patterns. The majority of the broken link triggers were either to a Google Gadget that I made over a year ago (and have since [...]

I have been meaning to redesign my “main” site for quite some time. I put “main” in quotes because Gordaen.com started as my only site, but my Toyota MR2 site receives far more visits every day than this blog, which receives far more hits than my “main” site. One of the reasons that traffic has [...]