Category: Personal Blogs

  • Finally! Some kind soul made facebook a little better.

    Remove those silly quizes, that everyone is doing… “what type of X am I” type apps, that splatter your feed. Author’s page here

  • introduction to http://ping.fm

    I was off to lunch with a few co-works, and Stephen Evans told me about http://ping.fm.  I never heard of it, so I went back to my desk after lunch, and found it. synopsis: ping.fm updates all status updates for a bunch of places: Linkedin (I don’t know where status msgs are placed…) facebook twitter…

  • Ricola vs Cepacol review

    Completely pointless to most people, unless they’re really looking for a review on something… My throat was sore from since Saturday, and today’s Monday.  I’ve been taking “Cepalcol Sore Throat” to try and numb the soreness that was on the back of my tongue, down my throat, and only to one side… weird. To the…

  • Extreme Fitness hours (2007)

    Normal hours: Monday to Friday: 5am – 12am Saturday to Sunday: 8am – 8pm Dec 24th, 5am – 6pm Dec 25th, closed Dec 31st, 5am – 6pm Jan 1st, 2008, 8am to 8pm

  • Got RSS?

    Yes, RSS is old news. Everyone and their dog has an rss feed. Okay, maybe not. However, here’s a super easy way to to monitor RSS feeds.   Thunderbird!!! Yes, that’s old too, I know.  If you don’t have News & Blogs, you’ll have to add an account first.  Now you have an easy way…

  • Got blogspam?

    Got troubles with your blogspam? Want to get rid of blogspam, or at least stem the tide of rushing spew that goes to your blog? For wordpress, as that’s what matters to me, install akismet, and spamkarma. If one doesn’t catch it, the other will. Akismet is already installed as part of the default install…

  • Silly games.

    Logic game have always entertained me. However, I find myself being consumed by the fact that YC can kick my butt at sudoku. Seems like I can only win one out of every 5-6 games… where as other people I seem to consistently win against. Maybe I’m a masocist to want to play her. I…

  • UK wants power to demand encryption keys

    This article “UK wants power to demand encryption keys” reports that Great Britain is daft. What’s going on in the minds of legislators in GB.  Seems like the fancy with 1984 is running a muck in the queens parliament. I mean, where’s my privacy, when I want it?  Why would I want to turn over…

  • Art of the flamer

    I’ve been using the internet since my grade 10 year… after purchasing an account from www.io.org many years ago. “Internet Online” was the company name. I’ve always seem flamers/trolls just general jackasses that most are accustomed to. These people would never say the things they do online… the anonymity is the trouble. What fear do…

  • Blogcritics.org: I'm A Programmer, Not A Computer Guy

    bain of a computer guy