Category: Geek

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 and Switching E-mail Services 7

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 and Switching E-mail Services

I'm ashamed to admit that our website is powered by really ancient software. WordPress 2.1.3 was released way back when we did our server move about a year ago and it has kept our site chugging along ever since. Recently,...

Remember the Basics 2

Remember the Basics

Last night I managed to blow out the computer speakers and the attached headphones. For some odd reason I keep on building these big static charges and when I brushed up against the headphone clip, ZAP, $500+ worth of sound...

HAMing It Up, Redux 8

HAMing It Up, Redux

You're looking at one of Utah's newest HAM operators. Tonight I took the Technician test and passed without a problem. In a couple of days, I get listed on the FCC database with a shiny new call sign and I...

Please stop inviting me to FaceBook. 8

Please stop inviting me to FaceBook.

Every couple of weeks, I get FaceBook invitations landing in my mailbox. This is in addition to a bunch of e-mail notices from MySpace and some sporadic ones from LDSLinkup, LinkedIn and Friendster. Orkut doesn't bug me too much, but...

HAMing It Up 4

HAMing It Up

Many moons ago (a few over 200 to be more exact), I had a teacher who was big-time into HAM radio. I was pretty interested in it from the few times I saw him using one and started studying what...

To Build or Not To Build 10

To Build or Not To Build

There comes a time in the course of a computer geek’s computing that he (or she) realizes that upgrading has been put off for WAY too long. That time came the other night as the desktop started choking on HD...

Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way 3

Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way

You know you've always wanted to read the collected works of Dickens. Maybe you really want to catch up on your Cervantes. Perhaps you've always meant to read The Art of War but never got around to it. With DailyLit,...

Website Updates: Subscribe to Comments, Related Posts, and Behind the Scenes Stuff 3

Website Updates: Subscribe to Comments, Related Posts, and Behind the Scenes Stuff

I've added a few new features over the last few weeks that I hope will prove helpful in finding nifty stuff on our site and participating more fully. For about two weeks now, I've had the Subscribe to Comments plugin...