Tag Archives: nerd

Notice anything different?

Well, besides the sporadic outages over the past week. I changed hosting companies, and one of the side effects was that the database that powers this blog was having locking issues.  So, I upgraded to a better database engine, and, … Continue reading

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I have good grammer and I spel good to

Oh, Twitter.  How do you expect to scale your service when you haven’t yet mastered the maintenance message?

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Starbucks + AT&T = Teh Rad

This is good news.  Whenever I'm traveling and I need to check my email, I'll generally head to Starbucks for a cup of joe and to tap into the T-Mobile wireless hotspot.  However, at $9.99/day, the access fee always ticked me off (though never … Continue reading

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Moo!

In case you hadn't heard, Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo! for a few pesos. If this deal goes through, my only hope is that they continue to fully support Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, and del.icio.us, as I use those three applications … Continue reading

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Big Brother is watching you

When I was a wide-eyed freshman EE student, I had a great idea for a senior project.  I was going to devise a patrol car-mounted system that would automatically detect the speed of an oncoming car and, if it was … Continue reading

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And the 2007 Word of the Year is…

w00t! No, seriously, it's w00t: Merriam-Webster asked the Internet [to choose the 2007 word of the year], and the Internet chose "w00t," complete with two zeros. Err… huzzah?

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Click-to-activate going the way of Clippy

If you've used Internet Explorer in the past ~1.5 years, you've no doubt been inconvenienced by the fact that you have to click on Flash animations/Java applets/etc. to get them to work.  Well, no more.  Great news from the Internet Explorer … Continue reading

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Google Apps: 4 GB

I just noticed that my GAfYD email inbox quota increased from 2 GB to 4GB. Thanks, Google!

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Latest Google Ninja Feature: Weather

Well, I doubt it's new, but it's new to me. You can get a weather forecast for your ZIP code just by typing "weather <your ZIP code>" into Google.  So, if you lived in Rocklin, you'd type in "weather 95765", … Continue reading

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(Updated) Icons are broken in my feed

I just looked at my feed on FeedBurner and noticed that the email/digg/stumble/dotnetkicks icons are broken.  Unfortunately, I don't have the source for the "ShareItModule" with me at work, so I will fix that tonight when I get home.  My … Continue reading

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