Sean’s Obsessions

I was reading a thread on a forum about Google’s next reindex and how it might be another Florida.
The first thing that hit me was how seriously some people (affiliate marketers, SEOs) take Google. In a matter of a few hours, almost two hundred messages were posted of people analyzing the results of the […]

A coworker is trying to make some pocket money by making Custom Novelty Receipts, so I thought I’d give him a plug.
On a more serious note, if you are interested in how to run a business on the Internet, Web Master World has some excellent forums.

Taking a trip to Ottawa to spend some time with the in-laws. One of the airlines had a dollar seat sale, meaning two round trip tickets were $4. Then how come it ended up being almost $280?

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I gave a presentation to the LUG that I belong to on Perl, called “Because Laziness is a Virtue”. Here is the PDF of it (188K). It went well, I think.

I originally registered ERTW.COM with the idea of turning it into a resource for engineers and engineers-to-be. In the past, I ran the front page as a news site and ran some forums. I was also talking to various student councils across the country about sharing announcements and stuff. Somehow, it never […]

In December 2002 I wrote some 2003 predictions, and boy was I off (comically, in some instances)
First, a major distribution will drop out of the market. Red
Hat? Nah. Debian? Doubt it. Caldera/SCO/whatever they’re called
today don’t count.
Well, Red Hat dropped out, SCO did their thing.
Second prediction is an easier one. The BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and NetBSD) will […]