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Today I bring you a pop hit by The Proclaimers; I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) from their album, Sunshine On Leith (1988).
When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who [...]

Build Your First Facebook App
Joe Casabona over at NetTuts gives a really easy to follow tutorial on creating your first Facebook application.
Step 1) Build Facebook App, Step 2) ?, Step 3) Profit!
Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited
Since we’re on the subject of Facebook Apps, Alex Iskold has an excellent article on the Facebook platform. If you [...]

I just received an email from my work that stated something similar to the following:
Dear Jonathan Franzone,
This e-mail will provide you with information on how to participate in Online Diversity Training. Every employee of XYZ Corp. is being asked to complete this online training program.
To participate in this program, you will need…
The funny thing is [...]

Yesterday I talked about created SUCCESS and FAILED status messages in a Bash script (Bash Script Init Style Status Message). Well, on occasion I use PHP for shell/system scripting and of course I thought it would be nice to incorporate my new status messages in those scripts as well. Turns out that it was quite [...]

Ever been looking for the RedHat Fedora (Linux Distro) site and type in the wrong address? If not, then you probably haven’t run across this somewhat freaky site. The address is http://fedora.org and they must be used to the wrong hits, because there is a disclaimer that they do not have anything to do with [...]

This is some of the most insane and crazy dancing that I have ever seen. Can you even call it dancing?

Have you ever wondered how the OK and/or FAILED messages are printed out in the initialization of services on a Linux system during bootup? Well… I have. Anyway, I’ve always thought that it was really cool how the OK and FAILED messages printed out at the same column on the screen and in different colors. [...]

PCWorld is giving away a $2,000 shopping spree at Amazon.com just for participating in a survey. The survey is very simple and extremely short; I completed it in just a few minutes. Just go to www.pcworld.com/pcwsurvey and tell PC World about your experiences with PCs, cameras, printers, TVs, and other electronic devices. The sweepstakes is [...]

Oh boy! Blizzard has unveiled the cinematic trailer for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. And it does NOT dissappoint. Blizzard raises the bar on the quality of their cinematics every time they release one. Also note, that they usually only unveil the cinematics when the release of the product [...]

I was just browsing for some software and happened along one of my all-time favorite spots for finding free utilities… SourceForge.net. I noticed that they’ve updated their website to have a much more Web 2.0 look. Very nice!