Santa was a little upset when he showed up Christmas Eve in the wee hours to find what was once a plate of freshly baked oh-so-good chocolate chip cookies, was now a plate full of crumbs. A tall frosty glass of icy cold milk reduced to mere droplets sat uninvitingly, and I, resplendent with […]

As our members are keenly aware, we try to run promotions fairly regularly. Contrary to what some view as “frantic offers“, we have always offered existing members semi-regular specials on directory reviews.
In keeping with that theme, we had a BOTW year-end review special for existing members. As the end of the month draws […]

I got my new Apple PowerBook G4 in early September. One of the first things I did was to spend some time learning about iCal, Apple’s calendar application. In an effort to work on my organizational skills, I spent some time adding in important dates and prioritizing my to-do list. One of […]

The Director of Technology at Best of the Web is a daunting post to hold. Yes, you do get to play around with “the latest and greatest”, but that “latest and greatest” just happens to be something that thousands, hundreds of thousands — Nay, millions — of folks like yourself happen to be checking […]

With the end of the year approaching rapidly, we take this time to tie up all loose ends, and prepare for the new year. We took time last weekend to upgrade all the equipment in our cages, and last night we upgraded the database. While we experienced some difficulties in pulling it off, […]

Unfortunately, we have discovered a few bugs over the weekend.
Mad props to Dave and Jared, who spent nearly a full 24 hours in the clean room, updating the racks. What had been planned as a 8-10 hour update turned into an all day ordeal. I can’t imagine the frustration, and I […]

While clearing off my laptop to hand over to a co-worker, I stumbled across this picture taken at Internext, summer ‘05 - Greg and Ron Jeremy.
I can’t swear by it (the afternoon was a little hazy) but I think I heard the two of them talking about the good old days. So if this […]

Well, it is that time of the year. A time for reflecting, planning, taking stock of where you are and where you want to be. Maybe, but not now! We are having our first BOTW end of the year fiesta - all staff members are leaving the office mid-day and heading out […]

A couple of weeks ago, Brian received an early afternoon email informing him of a pretty intriguing advertising offer. We were told that industry pundit, and Yahoo insider, Jeremy Zawodny would soon be accepting advertising - text link ads, to boot. Naturally, we were excited - the demographic of Jeremy’s readership is a […]

As I sit and watch the Jets/Patriots game (yawn), I will spend the next couple of hours pouring through the Blog Directory submission queue. As there has been a growing buzz regarding the new offering, and given that submissions are currently free of charge, there have been a steady flow of blogs being submitted […]