This will no doubt offend all the loyal members of AT&T’s fan club… oh, wait, there’s no such thing. I mean, who likes AT&T, amirite? And not many people care for Verizon, either. It might have something to do with the fact that they are both money grubbing behemoths offering lousy service at exorbitant prices…
Category: The Geek Within
This is very nice to have: Google Maps with bike-friendly directions. Up until now, I’ve used their walking directions for lengthy bike rides, and carefully evaulated and revised the provided route for potential pit falls. When you’re doing, say, the 115 mile ride from Salem, MA to Norwich, VT, that’s a pretty tedious and time…
Okay, I just spent a few minutes dissing Google for their lame implementation of a Calendar App. Now to something that doesn’t suck: SmugMug‘s incredible photo sharing site. For years, I’ve been trying to find a way to take my pro and not-so-pro images from my own archive to a more publicly accessible format. Mostly,…
So, I’ve been migrating to Google Calendar over the course of the past couple of months, particularly for use in connection with my work running part of the Ford Sayre Nordic Racing program here in my neck of the woods. Now, I’ve been a Google fan since waay back when, but lately I’ve been less…
You’re looking at this week’s winner of the Parent Prize: Todd Marcum from Salem, Oregon thought terrorizing his four kids with an electric dog collar was the way to go. Really makes you wonder: if your idea of parenting is repeatedly driving a three year old to tears, maybe you should have stuck to jerking…
A client of mine wants to set up a blog on the joomla 1.5 site I recently built for them. They would like this, that, and the other feature that are precisely the reasons why a lot of people over the past years have slammed Joomla as a bad blogging platform. I blog on Joomla,…
What a weird way to try to make a living. Some bozo called shawnwilson54[at]googlemail.com just emailed me: Hi, I wondered if you would be interested in buying the .COM version of your domain name willowschool.us for $195 ? Let me know. Shawn. Now, here’s the thing. That domain name is publicly available. I just registered…
Sigh. I love Joomla. I live and breathe Joomla these days, and it’s a great tool for making great websites. But sometimes you have to wonder what the hell the amazing crowd of altruistic coders are thinking. In Joomla 1.5.8 (as a significant change from 1.5.7 and earlier) you’ll suddenly see embedded HTML tags be…
I recently got a Slim Devices Duet/Squeezebox player to replace my aging and annoyingly incompetent Roku Soundbridge. The Duet is an awesome little toy with incredible potential — the ability to stream a Pandora station thru your regular speakers around the whole house is pretty cool. My little gadget had some startup trouble, however. While…
You read this story about outgoing FCC chairman (and GOP partisan hack supreme) Kevin Martin’s ludicrous plan to push a wireless internet option that would be free of porn, and the first thought that leaps to mind is of course: has that poor man *ever* been laid? Then you wonder what kind of thought-police would…
