I came across this article today that mentioned a new subscriptions business model that is used on FT.com, a model that:
I like the subscription model the FT has been using for some time now. I may get the exact details wrong but its the idea that’s important anyway. You can visit the ft.com domain
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I was trying to add a RSS feed in my sidebar on this blog the other day. And because this blog is powered by ASP.net I have to write a control page that pulls the feed in XML and render them to the page. I thought it was a simple task that only needs a few lines of code to…
Being a system administrator is not easy, non-stop learning, 24/7 on-call, always the one being blamed when things go wrong, etc. etc. If you are new and are thinking of being a system administrator as your main career path, you need to be prepared for all the dirty works involved and the little secrets about…
As I mentioned in check your iPhone warranty before it expires, I called Fido and claimed the problem I have on iPhone. Fido agreed to mailed me a new replacement. I also called Apple National Care center and booked a time to go to Apple store in downtown Vancouver. I didn’t get time so I simply waited for…
Lately I started a couple of new blogs powered on the most popular Wordpress blogging engine. So far, I am really impressed. Two words if you ask me how it is, Awe-Some!!
I have been heavily using it for several months, including a lot of theme installation, customization, theme picking, and plug-in testing. And I even have a…
Out of blue, I got a letter from Microsoft Canada a few months back asking me to conduct this SAM program with their SAM team, a software license auditing to me indeed actually. Then two weeks later, a consultant contacted me by phone, followed by an email a couple of days later with two documents attached, one of which is…
If you are a fan of using AVG free anti-virus like me, here is a good news for you. AVG now offers its AVG 8.5 Pro edition free, which usually charges for $34US. At least for one year per computer. But, just like the old saying, there is no free lunch in this world. You have to…
iPhone 3G was released on July 11 last year so if you are the first group of owners yours may have already expired. However, if you are like me who got the iPhone almost 3 weeks later you better check out when your beloved iPhone’s warranty expires, especially if you have some issues on the device.
My iPhone has been…
I am cheap so I host all my websites on a shared hosting plan. It’s been working very well for quite a long time until lately. All my websites were up and down pretty much throughout the day without very clear reason what was causing it. The tech support guys were patient enough working through the options trying to figure…
It’s already 5th edition since it’s first released in 2006. Time flies, so does the technologies. Even though a lot of the basic stuff still remains the same in the book, it’s an update to the 4th edition to further cover Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in both 32-bit and 64-bit, pretty much 25% more content…
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