Blog-o-Goodness
A good headline should step into your prospects head and be part of the conversation — either by continuing a pre-existing thought or by creating curiousity about something new.
Although this wasn’t the main headline on the magazine cover, it was immediately attention-grabbing.
From the October 2012 Cosmopolitan magazine with Zooey Deschanel on the cover:
It used to take some genuine effort to say nasty stuff to someone. If they pissed you off, you had to contemplate it, get a pen and paper, write out your thoughts, fold it up, put it in an envelope, bring it to the Post Office, wait on a line to mail it, and then wait the 3 to 10 … Read more
I spent a lot of time working on the Big Bird’s Hide and Speak game — and thus spent a lot of time listening to Caroll Spinney say the same few words from the game’s limited vocabulary over and over and over and over and… Since that is now a few decades in the past, … Read more
Yes, I still think in 6502 code. I was looking at a video of the Atari 7800 game Ikari Warriors — a game that I worked on back in the 1980’s. I was the one who suggested to Mike a way to build a board to install our own development system operating system on the … Read more
Yikes! What an icky message for a Monday morning! I log into my adsense account and see this message:
Your ads have recently appeared on websites you haven’t authorized. To avoid lost revenue, make sure to authorize any sites where you display ads by visiting your account settings.
Only is looks like this – with the bright yellow to let me know it’s a warning I ought to be frightened about:
OK. So I look at my account settings page and see under: Sites authorized to show ads
I have Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account selected and it tells me the unauthorized site translate.googleusercontent.com has been showing my ads.
Holy mother of toad! Again! WordPress just loves to release those late in the week security updates. We already know how hackers work — they do a file compare of the old WordPress version to the new one, the write some code to exploit the vulnerability, and then they set the code loose on whatever … Read more
I have long felt that privacy is dead and I have started to put together a 30+ part series on privacy is dead because it pops up everywhere, but this just takes the cake and eats it too.
Atari is:
https://www.atari.com/arcade/developers/
https://createjs.com/#!/CreateJS
and you can currently play these remakes of classic Atari games
(the technology is cool, the gameplay is like the programmers had no idea what was fun about the original games)
https://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/atari-promo
Now, I’ve thought javascript was a crappy idea since forever and it used to run REALLY slow, but I guess everyone is all hopped up on it for all sorts of modern stuff and hopefully it is being made to run better and faster. Although my gmail still annoyingly crashes every once in a while.
I guess anything is better than flash.
Anyway, it seemed like it was useful to create an account on atari.com. First name, last name, and birthday are all required fields. OK fine. I expect that. But I didn’t expect them to PUBLISH that info. WTF???