http://rogercollins.com/blog Roger Collins writes about Internet, software, business, etc. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:10:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I was reminded of something Vint Cerf said in one of his talks in one of the ICANN Meetings I attended while at Afternic.  He pointed out how the Internet had changed our social life everywhere, even the simple routine of having dinner at home with your spouse.  In ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/07/10/something-vint-cerf-said/ For the 3rd year in a row our family attended Coble Waterski/Wakeboard School for four days of intense waterski or wakeboard instruction. Here's a pic of me working my way through the slalom course. http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/06/23/waterski-camp/ We watched David Cook win American Idol last night and I was impressed like everyone else about the number of votes. By my calculations from numbers mentioned, David C. received about 55M and David A. received 43M votes.  Cook received almost as many votes as Bush received in the last ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/05/22/new-idol-gets-55m-votes-but-how-many-uniques/ This blog is now moved to a Hostway dedicated server! http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/05/20/moved-to-hostway-server/ One of the common problems that domain name industry programmers have is splitting a domain name like bluesuedeshoes.com into its keywords, blue suede shoes. It is trickier than it seems at first glance. I've decided to share my version just to demonstrate some recursive programming in PHP and ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/05/08/domain-name-keywords-script/ Google PageRank (PR) is a value from 0 to 10 representing how important your web page is according to Google's search engine. I wanted to gather the PR for certain domains (or rather the typical home page URL of these domains, "http://www.example.com/"). Most of the PHP scripts I ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/03/20/php-pagerank-query-script/ I'm letting my fellow CFCRers have first dibs. If no takers there I'll probably offer it on eBay. See more pics here. Here's the description: 2006 BMW K1200GT 152HP Factory electric cruise control ESA Heated seats & grips On board computer BMW Trunk Bill Mayer leather seat Baher intercom system with cable for bike to bike ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/02/06/selling-my-touring-bike/ I recall when I first looked at MySpace.com (when it was sold for $580M – I’m slow sometimes… ok, many times) that it had a standard section in everyone’s profile for his or her heroes. I liked that because my heroes are important to society, and our hero picks ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/02/04/drew-carey-hero-mention-1-reasontv/ I was curious how the eBay drop-off industry was doing and I have some stuff I'd like to sell on eBay, which added to my motivation to research this sector. The first mover and still one of the largest players by number of stores is Quikdrop International Inc. ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/01/29/quikdropcom-parked-page/ The only reason anyone should blog is because he or she has something to say. I plan to write about the domain name industry where I spent the last five years because I think I can help balance the discussions. Most folks that write about domains are biased on the ... http://rogercollins.com/blog/2008/01/27/why-another-blog/