Like ’em or Hate ’em, Paypal May be the Best Checking Account Alternative for Business Banking
Most of you know my relationship with Paypal. They sent my wife away in tears on a recent Ebay transaction, and their customer service can be horrible at times (I’m now out $230 of my own money because of it, and because supposedly they can’t trust me). At the same time I’m on their Developer […]
Read more...How to Replace Twitter With Facebook
I just wrote about how Twitter is becoming much less necessary for me. In this post, I’d like to show you how, with just a few steps, you can get exactly what you’re getting on Twitter and more with just a Facebook account and a Page you administer. It’s actually really simple now. Here are […]
Read more...With Facebook’s New Page Design, Do We Really Need Twitter?
(Alternate Title: “Twitter: 3 Years Later and Nothing’s Changed”) Talks of acquisition, deprecation of whitelisting, charging for API access – Twitter’s doing all they can to reduce cost and become more profitable. It’s actually a typical story for them. I’ve written the same post several years in a row – about 4-5 years strong and […]
Read more...Families Can Be Together Forever
I hope you’ll forgive this diversion from tech so I could share something that touched me. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (my employer, and Faith) just released this video and I just had to share it. It’s based on a song I’ve sung since a kid. In my faith this carries a […]
Read more..."Super Indexing Sunday" Breaks World Record With 2 Million Records Indexed in a Day
Facebook has quite a database with 500 million active users, and rumored total users in the billions. There are few that can relate to the types of problems engineers and architects encounter with a database of that size. FamilySearch.org is one of those, with a claimed database size of over 1 billion individual records, and […]
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