You have to learn to love winter when you live in Russia. We get it in a big way, in fact last year we hit -35C. We’ve just had the first snowfall of 2006, so any day now we’ll be 3 foot deep in the stuff.
It seemed to catch a few car drivers off [...]

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There’s been a fair amount of talk recently on ways to keep domain names looking old, Rand posted about the drop name service providers Snapnames, Enon and Pool. I wanted to explain about a recent development that’s rocking the industry: the domain auction.
Ok some background information. When you fail to renew your domain name [...]

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Well I finally had a chance to play around with adding del.icio.us bookmarks to this blog, you can see them here. Greywolf put up one or two excellent posts on the subject which pushed me to give it a try. To paraphrase Michael, the main reasons are:

These del.icio.us pages are showing up well in the [...]

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Via Digg comes a download of Google Hacks, 3rd edition [ZIP]. Unzip this to find a Windows help file containing all 100 hacks dividied into 8 chapters.
Hat tip to Philipp
EDIT: Actually this looks a little suspicious considering the book is still for sale on the O’Reilly site. Link removed to the direct download for [...]

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With Russia-Georgia tensions increasing we’d just like to calm some geographically challenged internet users by assuring them that the Georgia (US) is not the same as Georgia (country).
Some classics can be found here at Yahoo! Groups
I’m off to start the rumour that Russian paratroopers have their eye on Tennessee next…

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