rants and raves

Since I just got the statistics for search on weblog.bergersen.net, I thought I would share the numbers with you all. Its interesting reading. Using Atomz Search, the top phrases searched were: 1. – “fireworks mx” 2. – “fireworks mx crack” 3. – “decompiler” 4. – “fireworks crack” 5. – “crack” Its kind of sad to see what people are looking for. It gets even worse when we look at the searches people used on various search engines to get to my site: 1. – dreamweaver mx crack matt 2. –

28th of may was/is (depending on where on the globe you are when I am posting this) my birthday. I have turned 29 for the third time. (Ok, so I am 32 ;-) I hope you don’t take offence, but I thought I would be a little weasel and suggest that you could send me a dollar or two as a birthday gift. I’ll use the money to buy a book or two, and send some more money to other resource sites I appreciate. You can send the money by

This is cool, Chris MacGregor took the CSS style from this site and tweaked it to use on his own Flazoom.com – The Cooler: New Skin on Flazoom.com Admitedly the skin on this site is based on a default Moveable Type skin, which I have tweaked and messed with to get the right fonts settings and colours. Still fun to see it move on in yet another form. :-)

I think I can understand John’s frustrations with being overwhelmed with people searching for MX cracks. Just mentioning his crusade has gotten me a lot of visitors.. Here is the statistics for the last week for searches from Google.com: 1. dreamweaver mx crack – 214 searches 2. fireworks mx crack – 55 searches 3. how google works – 31 searches 4. “dreamweaver mx” crack – 14 searches 5. “fireworks mx” crack – 14 searches 6. crack dreamweaver mx – 13 searches 7. dreamweaver mx cracks – 11 searches 8. crack

Software piracy by one of the biggest members of the BSA, that would be unthinkable, wouldn’t it? Not according to Newsforge and their discovery of a Microsoft owned company that stole another companys code. NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French court? Not many people do. The Commercial Court of Nanterre fined Microsoft 3 million francs because it illegally included another company’s proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, a top-of-the-line animation package.

John has been taking the time to flaunt the people arriving at JD on MX through searches for cracks. I can’t help but think he is trying to attract even more attention to his weblog for those kind of searches :-) 2nd of May and 3rd of May: Of the 100 most recent referrals, 13 are for “macromedia flash mx crack”, 7 are for “macromedia fireworks mx crack”, 1 each for “macromedia coldfusion mx crack” and a generic “macromedia mx crack”, and a whopping 36 for “dreamweaver mx preview release

ABCNEWS.com writes about Online Ads Become Active and Intrusive. They have all failed, banner ads, skyscrapers, pop-up ads, etc. We all ignore them, and almost nobody click on them anymore. Click through rates used to be at 5-6% in the early days of the web, but now the average click through rate is two-tenths of a percent. The next move is commercials you won’t be able to ignore, full page ads that separate you from the content you want to see. For Flash developers, there should be a lot more

My last employer Netron is filing for bankruptcy, its really sad to see a company with creativity, spirit and courage to go their own way going down the drain. For Netron it was the total silence in the market after 9-11 that did it. The company never recovered after having to go months without much work. I wish the best for all the people I worked with, each of them became dear friends and I will miss working together with them on a daily basis, but hopefully we will all

DaveNet : How to be a revolution Today Dave digged into his vaste archives and went back 4 years, to when the Mozilla/Netscape Open Source project was launched, and a lot of words for and against Open Source was flying through the air. He wrote: “It isn’t about open source, it’s about open minds. “ In the same article he writes about the mentors that his generation had when he was an aspiering programmer, I quote directly: They were our surrogate fathers, caring about our success, enjoying it vicariously. I