Archive for July, 2007


31Jul2007

As if Apple didn’t have enough troubles with an idiotic class action suit. Now Eminem represented by Eight Mile Style LLC and Martin Affiliated LLC, his music publisher and copyright manager, is suing Apple for millions. Why? He says that he never gave Apple the right to distribute his tunes on iTunes. The funny thing [...]




30Jul2007

I am no longer a “work from home” web geek. Still a web geek, yes, but I have accepted a full-time position with a company that requires me to be in the office. Sad But True. Of course this means that I have multiple machines that I am working on and more importantly reading RSS [...]




30Jul2007

I have been doing some work with the XML-RPC functionality of WordPress and ran into a problem with the metWeblog.newPost() method. The problem? If you try to post a dateCreated value you actually get an error. At first I thought it was the format of the date/time that I was trying to post. So of [...]




29Jul2007

I wrote a couple of days ago about a giveaway that Everybody Go To was doing for a USB Cooler and USB Desk Lamp. Well guess what? They just announced that I won! (w00t) This was a huge surprise as I believe myself to be one of the unluckiest people on the planet as far [...]




26Jul2007

There has been a new trend in toys for the past couple of years that includes various forms of voice recognition software. Voice recognition technology has always, at least in my personal experience, been a hit or miss proposition. It has definitely gotten better in recent years, but how does it perform on a budget? [...]




26Jul2007

This USB Drink Cooler has a very interesting story of being autographed by John Chow and then passed off to several other people in blog/web competitions and giveaways. Now it is up for grabs yet again at the Everybody Go To blog. Of course this time the giveaway include this cool looking USB lamp. How [...]




25Jul2007

What!? Thoof is another social / networking site similar to Digg, Stumble and the likes which allows you to have your blog postings rated by the internet community. Signing up is extremely easy. Just click the previous link to go to the site and look in the upper right hand corner of the page. There [...]




23Jul2007

Have more than one email? Want to aggregate them all into one interface that is online? Fuser, a new service that is still in beta, may be just what the doctor ordered! There’s also a review of the site on Mashable: Fuser to Launch Email Aggregating Service.
EachDay is photo and multimedia sharing site that has [...]




22Jul2007

A brilliant but irascible coder. A missing wife. Incriminating drops of blood. And a host of unanswered questions. How a Linux geek got accused of murder.
As a Linux user I’ve used the ReiserFS for some time on some of my installations. It’s interesting how you use certain things in your life and never stop to [...]




21Jul2007

Check it out! You can get a free X-Box 360 from this site…