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25 most recent entries:
How to outlive AOL?s and any other third party hosted blogging service (Oct 22 2008 21:47 GMT)
Five years on the web is like 30 human years. Who knows how many sites and services that exist today will be no more in 2013, but my guess would be many. Perhaps most. If you listen to Paul Boutin who is either linkbaiting to the extreme or being brutally honest you shouldn’t even bother [...
Wax Johnny Depp and other strange sightings (Oct 21 2008 23:26 GMT)
This past weekend we were in Newport, Oregon and toured a wax museum. It sported this creepy realistic wax figure of Johnny Depp: Johnny Depp weirds me out in real life but in wax he’s even more spooky. I had to do a double-take to make sure this was really wax and not some actor [...
Spending $2,500+ USD a year earns Best Buy Reward Zone Premier Silver membership (Oct 19 2008 18:34 GMT)
In these current economic times the last thing many people are thinking about is spending more money on gadgets, gizmos and goodies, but consider for a moment if you are already spending the money scattered around at different stores what perks might come your way by making more/most/all these purchases through a single business. Keep [...]
How to monitor who stops following you on Twitter (Oct 17 2008 14:50 GMT)
For those twitterers wondering which followers are leaving them and when, Qwitter will follow any twitter account and email when a follower leaves, along with the last message (er, tweet) that was made. Each email contains an unsubscribe link so you can stop the flow when it’s no longer desired. Basic service, but effective for [...]
How to manage dead links in WordPress (Oct 14 2008 20:16 GMT)
For bloggers that use WordPress, especially if you’ve been blogging more than a year, here’s a plugin you might find helpful: broken link checker. Whenever you’
Scholastic News poll predicts Obama wins Election 2008 (Oct 14 2008 15:22 GMT)
This morning on CNN two impressively mature Scholastic Kids Press Corps reporters were on. They aren’t old enough to vote, but that didn’t stop them from having a poll among the children of our future. How did the poll go?
The DOW pinball game continues with record high day (Oct 13 2008 20:22 GMT)
We continue to see history being made in the financial markets. In March 2000 was previous DOW rate increase record for a single day of +499. Today, Columbus Day October 13, 2008, 22 days from election 2008, the DOW closed over 900 points. The guy with the shaved head pictured below, Neel Kashkari was [...]
It?s that darn apostrophe (Oct 13 2008 17:27 GMT)
My high school English teacher loved the red pen. Especially when I misused apostrophes. Guilty as charged. http://www.
Why they clap at the closing bell on Wall Street (Oct 09 2008 21:37 GMT)
Last week I hooked back up the Slingbox so that I could follow CNN’s coverage of the financial meltdown. You might have noticed more screencaps I’ve taken from Slingbox output on my computer monitor. Something I’
How to keep track of your toothbrush the low-tech way (Oct 09 2008 19:49 GMT)
This likely isn’t a problem if you live alone and/or have some super unique toothbrush. But most toothbrushes to me look the same and when I go to brush my teeth among a bunch of other toothbrushes from family members, I want the fast and easy way to grab the right one. Turns out from [...]
CD Baby MP3 digital download service takes hours to deliver MP3 (Sep 04 2008 16:06 GMT)
When I buy digital music downloads from places like iTunes and AmazonMP3 the music is available, as expected, for download right away. This morning I bought an album in MP3 format from an indie rock artist, Heavy Jack, from CD Baby. Believe that this was my first ever CD Baby purchase. One of the things I [...]
Heavy music game presence at PAX 2008 (Sep 03 2008 07:23 GMT)
Music and gaming are enjoying a strong synergy in 2008 that could be witnessed nearly everywhere at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle 2008 this past weekend. We spent three days there collecting video, pictures, playing games and rocking out to video game music, most of which I’ll be sharing at VTOReality.com. Here I’
Chrome attempts to move browser market forward, a noble goal (Sep 02 2008 22:54 GMT)
If you follow me on Twitter, then you’ve already seen me write that with Chrome, Google’s (disclaimer: I own GOOG stock) shiny new browser, so far I like what I’m seeing.
Sweetcron Bookmarklet (unofficial) (Sep 02 2008 20:30 GMT)
Sweetcron is billed as a host it yourself, very moddable lifestreaming service, think FriendFeed only on your own server with mods galore. It is early, frequently updated code by Yongfook based on the open source CodeIgniter Framework. One noticeably missing Sweetcron feature as of this writing is some kind of bookmarklet. Before heading out to [...]
Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx, the man is 61 and still has the pipes (Aug 26 2008 07:18 GMT)
Among the list of bands I’d like to see get completely back together, Dennis DeYoung with Styx is near the top. He might be 61 but there is no reason — other than personality conflicts — I can tell anyway that he couldn’
Beach bound (Aug 25 2008 19:38 GMT)
As mentioned back in November 2007 and despite being within hours of the ocean, we usually only get out to the beach about once per year. We’re beach bound again today, this time not to Lincoln City, but to Ocean Shores. I collected pictures from the last Lincoln City trip that haven’t been posted and [...
Synths of trying to use Photosynth (Aug 23 2008 21:34 GMT)
Note to Mac OS X readers: none of the IFRAME embeds in this post work at this time with the Mac. Sorry about that, Photosynth is a Windows-only thing at the moment although they say they are hard at work on a Mac version. Note to Windows users: If you have trouble viewing any of the [...
You can now listen to two songs from the new Metallica album coming September 12 (Aug 22 2008 19:38 GMT)
So how good is the new Metallica music? Yesterday, we were teased with the release of track 4 "The Day That Never Comes" (Windows Media) which sounds like it might be the ballad (the only one?) on the album.
Holy HTML Batman, check how your podcast appears in RSS readers! (Aug 22 2008 17:08 GMT)
I’ve seen all kinds of different things done with podcasts over the last few years, but don’t often get pitched on Batman Ringtones instead of the podcast itself: What’s wrong with this picture?
Need your help solving the enigma, SquatchDetective (Aug 21 2008 21:08 GMT)
Every once in a great while I see people talking seriously about Bigfoot’s existence and shake my head. And big surprise (not) that we shouldn’t believe in the most recent phony Bigfoot sighting either, cooked up by a car salesman and now-fired police officer: On August 12, [Steve Kulls] said, Dyer and Whitton "
Google Maps mashup that shows what?s on the other side of earth from your location (Jul 02 2008 09:26 GMT)
Check this out, a Google Maps mashup called Map Tunneling that answers an eternal childhood question: if you dug a hole in your backyard that was so deep it went through to the other side, where would end up? In our case: in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Bummer.
Musicians need to act now to avoid massive piracy in music game genre (Jul 01 2008 07:02 GMT)
Band’s need to be pushing to get all of their music on the game systems in both Rock Band and Guitar Hero format. How do I yell this any louder. There aren’t enough licensed music games in the pipeline!
Guitar Hero On Tour and Guitar Hero Aerosmith weekend but games are too easy (Jun 30 2008 19:21 GMT)
It’s no secret that I’ve been a huge fan of the various fake music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. This weekend we took some time to purchase and review the two most current offerings in the Guitar Hero franchise: Guitar Hero On Tour Nintendo DS ($49.
WALL-E is more clever than a spork (Jun 27 2008 20:43 GMT)
It’s not often that we see 98% movie review scores from the Rotten Tomatoes collective. WALL-E is getting lots of reviewer love. This morning skeptical, but curious, I told our recently graduated son who has been working with me in our online business: “
Pool 2008 almost didn?t happen (Jun 27 2008 15:10 GMT)
Last year we bought one of those above ground swimming pools and after setting up in mid July were only able to enjoy a dozen or less good swim days. This year the weather has been so crappy to date and with June almost over there was some consideration that we may never set the [...]
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