August 16, 2005

I am tracking you

You are being tracked by gvisit, see the results here. Gvisits lets you track visits on a Google Map based on their IP address. The technology is not perfect in that the IP address mapping is dependent on the users internet provider keeping accurate geographic records. Its still intersting to see a visual representation of all my visits though.

FYI, you can still see my visitor link above I’ve disabled it because it was slowing down my site.

August 2, 2005

Hans Island – A Canadian Response

In case you haven’t been reading the back pages of the news Canada and Denmark have an on going dispute over Hans Island. After a recent visit to Hans Island by a Canadian government office the Danish government has launched protested, which included a Google Adwords campaign. If you search for “Hans Island” on Google you get a message from the Danish government that Hans Island is part of Greenland ( Danish territory ). Several Canadian companies have responded with their own Adwords campaign ( myself included ), here’s some of the ads:

Hans Island – Dispute
Whats the big deal? Everyone
knows it belongs to Canada!
www.ergo4me.com

Retire on Hans Island?
Learn to manage your own finances
and retire on your own terms.
www.efficientmarket.ca

So far the Canadian government has not responded, they’re probably still looking for Google in the dictionary, or quickly renaming all the Tim Horton’s Danishes to Hans Islands… Classic Canadian response to a dispute.

July 19, 2005

Live Bookmarks

I’ve added support for Live Bookmarks to my site. I really like this feature on other sites that I read cause it lets you see parts of the sites new content without loading the page. The Bookmark is essentially updated via an RSS feed. I believe Firefox is the only browser to support Live Bookmarks so far. More details are available here.

Update: This site has moved from Mambo -> Joomla -> WordPress but Live Bookmarks are still supported.