Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Although I perhaps should have been using the time in other ways, I’ve spent considerable time and effort building a custom news aggregator.  I was able to leverage SimplePie and PHP to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I also wanted to scour the Internet, social media, and all the trendy Web 2.0 [...]

Apparently yesterday while I was at a job interview or on the ferry or otherwise not online, Google made a major change to their search engine algorithm. They call it Search plus Your World which is a pretty lame name. People have already reduced it to an acronym SPYW or as I like to read [...]

But only technically. So why am I writing this blog post, well why do I write any blog posts? I’ve had a homepage on the Internet since 1995 something even a lot of big corporations can’t say.  I’ve only owned Muschamp.ca for a decade or so, before that my homepage was at the URL www.engr.uvic.ca/~amckay [...]

Yahoo Inc. has been much in the news lately with Microsoft’s attempt to buy them and their possibly anti-competitive deal with Google, the changes to their board trying to be forced upon them, even the sheer number of executives abandoning ship. This is what happens when you take on Google and Microsoft and come third. [...]

Is it even worth it to blog? I’m far from convinced it is. Same goes with telling the truth and going out of your way to help people… It is also getting harder and harder to find the time and a reliable internet connection. My life is still far from settled, far from good, far [...]