Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 21, 2008
So, here is the story: as a joke in his webcomic ‘xkcd’, Randall Munroe talked about creating a virus, the sole purpose of which was to read youtube comments out loud before they are submitted. (http://xkcd.com/481/ for reference, although please abide by network security policies and protocols if reading this post from your place of [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 20, 2008
Ok, I’ve figured out an idea for our next feature. Based on demand, we now offer Magic Zoom installation. (See http://www.solidcactus.com/magiczoom-installation.html for details.) What’s the next step? Magic eye zoom, of course! When you hover over the image the zoom window appears, but it is pixelated like one of those Magic Eye puzzles. So, after [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 17, 2008
Go and the Art of Business Part II - “Try to win by exactly one point”
In Part I of “Go and the Art of Business” (http://spgblog.solidcactus.com/2008/10/09/go-and-the-art-of-business-part-i/) I introduced one of the basic sayings of go, “Try to lose your first 50 games as quickly as possible”. This week I’d like to introduce another [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Oct 17, 2008
Last weekend a few SPG members went on an excursion to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in Mount Hope PA. The weather was nice and I believe it marked the last official nice day of PA. Nevertheless, we had a blast since it was pirate invasion week, Rrrr.
The experience was amazing as always, you can never [...]
Posted by George Sisco on Oct 15, 2008
Folks here in spg are genuinely entertained by the whole internet 15 minutes of fame phenoms out there. You know, chocolate rain, numa numa, and my new personal favorite, Kazookeylele, found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU.
Anyway, Paris Hilton’s running for president, Weezer’s got a new video called pork and beans, who doesn’t enjoy the occasional Rick roll even [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 14, 2008
I just wanted to send out a quick “congratulations” to Joe and Joel for making the cover of this month’s ‘eBiz Insider’. The photo is from Halloween of ‘07 where the two of them absolutely dominated the Halloween costume competition with Joe as “Beer man” (not to worry, he was packing good old Mug Root [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 13, 2008
This is just a quick post to welcome Warren, the newest addition to the Store Programming Group, to our team. Warren comes to us with a wealth of HTML experience. In fact, according to his Solid Cactus bio he started working with computers when he was all of 13. From his vast experience in tech-support [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 10, 2008
We are sad to say that today is Eric’s last day with our team. Not to worry, he’s just moving next door to the Professional and Premium package team, and we are excited for him; but can we admit to being a little envious of them for stealing Eric from us?
Eric, you came to this [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Oct 9, 2008
Go and the Art of Business Part I
Go and the Art of Business Part I - “Lose your first 50 games as quickly as possible”
In an earlier post I gave a brief mention of the game of go. See http://spgblog.solidcactus.com/2008/09/12/got-go/ for the whole story. I thought over the course of a few [...]
Posted by Jordan Olsommer on Oct 8, 2008
Last night I decided to take a break from reading the excellent but hefty tome, The Snowball to make a small gift for the horse on which I am betting for our SPG Package-Off, and the human being attached to that horse, Keith Schaeffer. This bearded centaur may not be in first place right now, [...]