The customer in this case is me. You can catch all the gory technical details in my previous post. The gist of the issue is that the popup blocker that is part of the Google Toolbar has a nasty way of silently defeating certain Internet Explorer functionality that may have absolutely nothing to do with popping up an annoying ad. The worst part about it is that Google Toolbar is otherwise a fine piece of software that does give you both visual and sound cues when it catches and stops popups. This started two days ago when I discovered that part of...

Raymond Chen gives an interesting insight into the elections to the board of directors of Allstate. In other words: These thirteen people will be elected to directorships regardless of what you do. Read the full post here.

[Update: This blog post sets up the problem, though it appears I was pointing the finger the wrong way. It turns out the problem was caused by Google Toolbar. See my followup post for more details.] The JavaScript / JScript onunload event is notoriously unreliable from browser to browser. Reading though various USENET posts leads me to believe that the behaviour is slightly different between Mozilla derivatives, Opera, and IE. That sucks but is nothing new. What is, however, annoying is that behaviour differs on the same browser. A few months ago I coded up some functionality that persisted state back to...

A great tip from Tony Schreiner on how to remotely enable Remote Desktop. I wish I had known this earlier. Make sure to look in the comments for a tip on doing this straight through registry.

I belive I solved the mystery presented in my previous blog entry. I believe the link that ties my sites to my name is, in fact, this very blog. Its still odd though that both sites appeared higher in rank than the blog itself... Hmm...

So I thought I understood the magic that is Google but clearly I was wrong. A few weeks ago I signed up for Google Web Alerts and recently got a few emails with hits on my name. This prompted me to wonder what someone would see if they tried to google me. The result was not at all what I expected. Although both Rebate-Tracker.com and Excellenz.com are my creations, neither has ever had my name on any of its pages. In fact, to the best of my recollection, the only places my name could ever have surfaced in association with those...