Ade in Business

When I started Recursive Function, I put together a set of very modest goals. The goals were rooted in the practicality that my company is a very young one without a large client base, deep advertising budget, or superstar employees. The goals fit me well since I’m a practical, frugal person. I [...]

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As you might have noticed, I decided to jump on the AdSense bandwagon and add advertising to my blog. This isn’t because I think I’ll make anything more than $0.01 a year from it, but because I wanted to experiment and learn more about using AdSense in a live environment.
I had signed up a [...]

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In case I came across as too one-sided in my post about net neutrality, I want to refer you to Hands off the Internet, a grassroots site opposing any sort of net neutrality amendment.
Except that it’s not really a grassroots site. It’s a site built and funded by the telecoms and their lobbyists, that [...]

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Another issue working its way through our government right now is a fight to make playing online poker illegal. Opponents have pointed to the 1961 Wire Act that targeted Mafia bookies taking sports bets over the phone, and interpreted the act to cover any wagering online.
Some of the ambiguity comes from the lack of [...]

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After doing the math on the number of combinations for randomly generated passwords, I thought about TinyURL, a great service that’s been around for a long time. You enter any really long URL, and it creates a short one like http://tinyurl.com/XYZ that redirects to the original URL. It’s a pretty simple solution, but [...]

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