Archive for August, 2009

Kathmandu Street View

From the Kathmandu Wikipedia article Kathmandu is situated in the heart of the Himalaya mountains and has a rich history. Considered by many to be among the most beautiful cities in the world, the earliest known inscription in the Kathmandu Valley is dated 185 AD. The oldest firmly dated building in the earthquake-prone valley is [...]

August 31, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Travel • No Comments

Domain Name Registrars, DNS Services, Application Hosting Providers – The Best

This post first appeared at SEO Chiangmai, the Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing and Ecommerce blog on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009. Simplicity is a wonderful thing. For the domain name game and hosting services, there are two kinds of simplicity A single, monolithic simplicity – aka “all-in-one” A set of modular simplicities – aka “best-of-breed” [...]

August 27, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Domains • No Comments

Colorblindness and Online Marketing

Originally published at SEO Chiangmai, the Search Engine Optimization consultant in Chiang Mai, Thailand on August 22, 2009. Colorblindness Colorblindness affects approximately 5-8% of the population, mainly males. The visualization of these kinds of colorblindness is eye-opening, to say the least. The most common form of colorblindness is deuteranomaly, which is red-green. The colorblindness simulations [...]

August 23, 2009 • Posted in: Flickr • No Comments

Autoplay using USB as attack vector – disable in Windows XP

My computer got a malware infection which eventually installed an Internet worm. How did this happen? I use my USB memory stick as backup storage for when the Internet is not available (or simply is slower to use). Over the past few days I have used my USB memory stick (8gb Dane Electric, $20 retail [...]

August 11, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Virus • No Comments

5 Archetypes of Organizational Culture

According to Freire (2007) (video) there are Five Archetypes of Organizational Culture. Naturally, these cultures are based on, developed and perpetuated by leadership. Leaders Send Messages How do you as a leader do things Distance between walk and talk What you do says what is important, role meeting How do you run meetings, how much [...]

August 5, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Organizations • No Comments