I've been messing about with javascript a bit and the recent fade-fad... check out this little beauty

Here's another - I like this one better.

So there's this new technique to tracking user visits, called PIE (persistent identification element). This is to circumvent the user who doesn't want cookies tracking their every move online who may delete their cookie cache from time to time.

When a consumer goes to a PIE-enabled website, the visitor's browser is tagged with a Flash object that contains a unique identification similar to the text found in a traditional cookie. In this way, PIE acts as a cookie backup, and can also restore the original cookie when the consumer revisits the site.
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Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services.

I can't help but feel an air of possibility - a tingle of excitement coming directly from the stir that online companies are causing. I'm anxious but hesitant to speculate that maybe, just maybe, the web is rising - again.

With the recent acquisition of Flickr by Yahoo, that opens up a world of possibilities as Yahoo plans to launch their Yahoo 360 service. So Google's got Picasa and Blogger, now Yahoo's got Flickr and is harvesting its own blogging service. Let's also not forget that Yahoo also has Geocities - and scoff if you will, but it still is a sizeable chunk of the web and web history for many of us... I bet I still have a geocities page somewhere in some old neighbourhood.

So I finally couldn't take it anymore. I cancelled my mobile with Rogers. I was subscribed to the Family Plan, which I was told would allow me to have two phones sharing one account with free calling between them for $20/month. I was told that and that was why I switched to that plan from my previous plan of $25/month that I was paying for just one phone.

I have never been satisfied with the price of my Rogers services - I was never getting what I paid for. My bills would always be at least double of what my package was advertised as.

Anyway, the past few bills have put me over the top when it comes to being complacent and understanding.

Keeping this item in mind, picture the turmoil Microsoft could cause by doing the same thing to the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Picture Microsoft shutting its doors, forever, and never answering another support call or putting out another update for its software.
What would the world do?

All those systems reliant on Windows, all those corporations reliant on the Office suite - sure, the economy would recover eventually, but just how much of an impact could the closing of Microsoft cause?

I'm not trying to incite some sort of paranoia-fed conspiracy theories, but just think about it. A lot of Linux advocates dream of a day when Microsoft no longer exists, but do they really know what they're asking for?

I sat across from an awkward little man on the train home yesterday who had a chocolate brownie, piano sheet music and a new BlackBerry 7100r. I was envious - and I'm not talking about the brownie or piano music. Ok, maybe about the brownie a little.

This new Blackberry device is a beautiful testament to the efforts over the last few years by RIM to put out a new and exciting product. Everybody and her brother has a 7200 series Blackberry on the GO train - it's about time there was a new device for these office monkeys to show off on the ride to/from work.

Ever have a customer who has provided more headaches and hardships than they paid for? Sometimes there's those clients who think that just because they're the ones paying for the service that they're in total control and can manipulate their way into receiving the best possible "deal".
I can appreciate somebody who shops around... I implore people to. What I can't appreciate is a customer who takes the deliberate stance of being difficult and hard to please - I truly do whatever I can to make a customer happy so I know that if a customer is unhappy with price and payment policy (one bill a year - harsh, I know) than I've got a customer who would be better off somewhere else.