Category: Geek

The Day the Music Died 4

The Day the Music Died

Your speakers are working; it's Yahoo! Radio that isn't. In protest of exorbitant new royalty fees set to go into effect Real Soon Now(TM), thousands of Internet radio broadcasters are protesting today with a day of silence. Their beef? That...

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant? 0

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant?

Web folks are fascinated with statistics. We love to see how many visits our blogs get, how they get there, who's linking to us and what browser everyone is using. In our quest for meaningful data concerning who's reading and...

Restyling The Template 2

Restyling The Template

One of the best parts of WordPress is the ability to customize to your heart's content. You can either go as basic as downloading and installing a new theme or plugin or as extensive as re-writing individual components. Today I...

Spam Karma Delivers Payback 3

Spam Karma Delivers Payback

Since the move to the new server, I've been rather disappointed with how Akismet, the spam filtering plugin, had been performing. It had taken up a nasty habit of flagging almost all legit comments as spam leading me to have...

I'm totally addicted to this game. 2

I'm totally addicted to this game.

Chick Chick Boom is about the most addictive thing to hit the Internet since Bejeweled, I kid you not. I'm totally not surprised that Nintendo was involved on this one. Go try it out for yourself.

Moving Delays 0

Moving Delays

Server migration. The words strike fear of the unknown in the hearts of the non-technical and fear of the known into the hearts of geeks like me. So far, I've only moved mail services and one of the websites to...

Movin' On Up (To the East Side!) 2

Movin' On Up (To the East Side!)

1,597 unique visitors. 3,442 distinct visits. 10,484 pages served with 34,860 hits consuming 2.23GB of traffic. And that's just last month. What does this all mean? It means we're outgrowing our cable modem connection and need to move to new...

Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us 10

Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us

In a move designed to infuriate the technical community (yours truly included), the judge in the patent case between Verizon and Vonage has issued an order that Vonage is prohibited from completing calls from its service to a regular phone...

It's a lot like Sanford and Son 7

It's a lot like Sanford and Son

What, you might ask, has this to do with anything? Take a look at this picture from our living room: Yes, that's 16 computers and a 17" monitor. There's three more monitors downstairs and 12 more waiting for pickup. The...