http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/ www.hashemian.com.]]> en-us 2007-01-03T18:12:07-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/about-me.html this is looking good for us... vhashemian 2007-01-03T18:12:07-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/ezpass-service-fee-scam.html For those you who have E-ZPass (EZPass or EZ-Pass, I can never spell it right) tags, you'd better take a look at your recent statement. No, this is not about phantom charges for some bridge you never crossed. It's... vhashemian 2005-08-16T14:16:35-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/google-web-accelerator-gwa-part-ii.html In my last blog I wrote about Google Web Accelerator (GWA), but I also mentioned about some lesser known adverse effects. Here's a short summary.GWA is in effect a proxy client drawing from the vast Google cache content. This means... vhashemian 2005-06-28T17:05:22-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/google-web-accelerator-part-i.html Google has become a relentless machine pumping out new products and services at dizzying speed. I absolutely love how they go about it. First the stuff appears in Google labs. Then they go beta, and finally they're released. At every... vhashemian 2005-06-23T11:51:31-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/robotstxt.html If you operate a public web site, there is little doubt that you'd like an occasional visit from search engine minions, known as robots. Robot are little agents that search engines dispatch to your site to scan your page contents... vhashemian 2005-05-23T11:17:21-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/msnbccoms-missing-expandable-menu.html As a frequent reader of MSNBC's Web site, I started noticing this past weekend that their left-side navigation menu items no longer expanded. As of this writing, the menu has yet to regain its dynamic trait.The expanding menu has been... vhashemian 2005-05-04T14:17:16-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/google-vs-the-dictionary-and-the-encyclopedia.html vhashemian 2005-05-04T09:57:56-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/the-emr-pitfall.html The health care industry got a shot in the arm today with IBM's announcement of an 8-year, $402 million partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The company claimed that this will be a model for how the health... vhashemian 2005-04-28T10:46:49-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/adobe-to-acquire-macromedia.html The announcement was made today of the $3.4 billion take-over of Macromedia by Adobe. I was a bit surprised at how expensive Macromedia was, but then again this is one of the success stories of the Internet age. Interestingly enough, these... vhashemian 2005-04-18T12:09:33-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/google-toolbar-exposing-hidden-web-pages.html A few days ago I had a discussion with our managing editor for our company's Web site about how crawlers discover and index pages. He was convinced that search engines can somehow find hidden pages on a Web site even... vhashemian 2005-04-11T18:59:21-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/gm-spites-la-times-pulls-ads.html vhashemian 2005-04-08T10:34:57-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/gmails-2-gb-storage.html I wasn't sure if this was an April fool's joke when I logged in to my Gmail account and saw my total storage at 1324 MB. It had been 1000 MB (which by the way, is not exactly 1GB) since... vhashemian 2005-04-01T18:04:59-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/p2p-pirate-to-pirate-er-peer-to-peer.html Admit it. You have broken the law at least once in your life. Maybe you have gone above the speed limit a time or two, or made a copy of your cousin's music CD. The law doesn't have the patience... vhashemian 2005-03-30T11:38:22-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/irs-and-usps-taxing-your-wallet-and-patience.html Checking my mailbox over the weekend, I was greeted with my tax return documents. Only thing is that those were supposed to be delivered to the darlings at the IRS. What steams me is that I made sure to mail... vhashemian 2005-03-28T10:31:55-05:00 http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/robert-hashemian/ebbers-faces-the-music.html Seeing Bernie Ebbers' picture with a gloomy face after the guilty verdict was announced evoked some feelings of sympathy in me. Perhaps I am too sentimental seeing people in distress. I truly felt bad for him. He just doesn't look... vhashemian 2005-03-16T14:09:37-05:00