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Google Context Ads Is Off Its Rocker
2007-10-30 15:49:00 I just posted an article (actually a link to another article) about Microsoft, Yahoo and Google in the online advertising arena. No surprises there; you can see it directly below. After publishing though I looked down at the AdSense block that follows each of my postings and… what!? Seriously, “Anti Monkey Butt Powder“? What the heck ... More About: Blogging , Rocker , Context
Microsoft Must Kill Google Before It Is Too Late
2007-10-30 15:42:00 Every once in a while I like to post links to one of my favorite financial sites, The Motley Fool. This usually because they are covering some aspects of one of the big tech companies. In this case Rick Aristotle Munarriz has written a very good analysis of the financial states of generating revenue from ... More About: News , Google , Microsoft , Late , Kill
Bash Script To Backup Your Website
2007-10-30 15:00:00 I thought I’d share another one of my personal scripts. This one is a script that I use to backup this website including files and the MySQL database. It is very simple and straightforward so I won’t bother with long explanations. If you have any questions about it please feel free to comment. On tip ... More About: Website , Tutorials , Backup , Operating Systems , Script
Who Upgrades Their WordPress Blog On Monday Morning?
2007-10-29 15:48:00 I do! I do! This is a testament to a) my stupidity and b) the simplicity of the WordPress installation/upgrade process. I would never, ever condone performing an upgrade on your website in the middle of Monday morning. Why? Well, that is usually one of the peak times of usage for most websites (unless they ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Blog , Morning , Upgrades
Still Time To Win a FREE iMac
2007-10-29 14:53:00 I wrote a little while back about a guy named Mike (Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style) who is running the Stay At Home Dad iMac Give-Away. Up for grabs is a brand new, unopened 20″ Apple iMac. It has a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1 GB of memory, a 250 GB ... More About: Toys , Time , Giveaways , Free
Passing Parameters By Ref In C#? WHAT?
2007-10-26 19:00:00 I am not a huge .NET fan, but I am mature enough to overcome my personal likes and dislikes in a professional setting and use whatever is needed. I recently ran into a situation programming in C# that I needed to create a method that took it’s parameters by reference. Why would you want to ... More About: Passi , Passing
Friday Song Of The Day - King Tut
2007-10-26 16:13:00 Don’t you just love it when comedians make music? King Tut is a hilarious song done by Steve Martin for SNL (Saturday Night Live). My favorite line? … He’s my favorite honky. There is also an embedded video below the lyrics for your viewing pleasure. Click through to the site if you cannot see ... More About: Song , Friday , King Tut
Extreme Surfing - Tidal Waves
2007-10-26 02:40:00 I’ve been skydiving on multiple occasions. Some would say that takes some… well, guts. But surfing on a wave this huge? WHAT! You have got to be kidding me. (Click through to the site if you cannot see the video) I extracted this video from an article titled The 10 Craziest Competitive Sports (You Never Heard ... More About: Video , Surfing , Extreme , Waves , Trem
Want A FREE Subscription to Oracle Magazine?
2007-10-25 23:07:00 Are you at all interested in Oracle products? Would like to find out more about them? Would you like tips, tutorials, sample code and a ton of valuable Oracle-related information? Why not head over and grab yourself a FREE subscription to Oracle Magazine . Of course they reserve to right to refuse free subscriptions based on ... More About: Technology , Free , Subs
Feel The Pain! Simulated Bullet Hits In FPS Games Coming
2007-10-25 22:46:00 According to PC World Magazine, TN Games , makers of “physical experience hardware,” will release a PC vest accessory on November 21 that simulates the feeling of being hit by real bullets when playing first-person shooter games. The 3rd Space FPS Vest features eight embedded contact points that are said to simulate the direction and force ... More About: Technology , Toys , Pain , Bullet
AdaptiveBlue?s SmartLinks Are Live!
2007-10-25 16:25:00 AdaptiveBlue has been leading the way with cutting edge technologies that help you browse the web better and smarter. Not only that but they also provide tools for web content providers (ie bloggers) enabling them to give a more usable and informative experience to their audience. I was lucky enough to be included in the ... More About: Blogging , Live , Adaptive
Coding Properties? ?The Right Way?
2007-10-24 20:04:00 In object oriented programming there is the concept of classes and/or objects. These are nice encapsulated bits of code that allow one to store data and/or functionality. One of the ways to add data to an object is to give it some properties. The “right way” of doing this usually involves adding some private data ... More About: Coding , Properties , Prop , Pert , Rope
Blu-Ray Or HD-DVD? Why Not Both?
2007-10-23 19:37:00 Remember the good ole “dash” versus “plus” wars? I’m talking of course about the DVD-R versus DVD+R format wars for rewritable DVD media. Currently we have a similar war waging and that is between the Blu-ray ™ and HD DVD formats for high definition DVD media. It looks to me like it is going down ... More About: Technology , Entertainment , Toys
3rd Party Apps Coming To An iPhone Near You!
2007-10-22 21:09:00 iPhone SDK and Apple Finally Listening ? Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs just announced that Apple would (finally!) provide an iPhone SDK to 3rd party developers in order to enable them to create native applications for the iPhone (and, incidentally, also for the iPod touch). While the actual SDK won’t ship until February 2008, this announcement is ... More About: Party , Iphone
Google Version 2.0: Googzilla - The Calculating Predator
2007-10-22 20:58:00 Google Version 2.0: Googzilla - The Calculating Predator ? Google’s database inventions by themselves, according to Stephen E. Arnold, who has written a patent-centric study of the company, show that Google’s research unit has superseded Bell Labs and Xerox PARC as the place for technical innovation in the U.S., if not the world. The new study’s ... More About: News , Google , Internet
BlogRush Gives 10,000+ Blogs The Boot
2007-10-22 18:29:00 I just received an email this morning letting me know that I made the first round of cuts! What cuts? Well, I’m sure a lot of you fellow bloggers have heard of BlogRush by now. After the initial opening there were problems with people gaming or cheating their system. Of course they do not want ... More About: Blogging , Blogs , Boot
Is That Photoshopped?
2007-10-20 22:48:00 This web comic is brought to you by xkcd.com and Randall Munroe (A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language). More About: Humor , Photosho
Friday Song Of The Day - Online
2007-10-19 06:44:00 This week’s Friday Song Of The Day comes to you from Brad Paisley. It’s his extremely and geeky Online . This song appears on the album titled 5th Gear. I work down at the pizza pit and I drive an old Hyundai I still live with my mom and dad I’m five foot three and overweight I’m a sci-fi fanatic A mild ...
FREE Book - Best Practices For Lightweight Code Review
2007-10-19 06:35:00 Peer code review is happening behind the scenes at your competitor’s shop. Are they wasting their time or gaining a competitive advantage? What type of review actually works? 10 practical essays from industry experts giving specific techniques for effective peer code review: Cisco: The largest-ever case study of peer code review Modern experiments: results of the past ... More About: Review , Free , Book , Code , Lightweight
Manualist Plays Crazy Train By Ozzy Osbourne
2007-10-18 21:47:00 Gerry Phillips (aka The Gunecologist) is a truly talented manualist. I’ve posted his material here before and I wanted to do so again. This is his performance of Ozzy Osbourne ’s Crazy Train . More About: Video , Humor
Are You A Procrastinator?
2007-10-17 15:16:00 Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. More About: Humor
A Monster Phishing Scam
2007-10-16 17:48:00 I just received an email from an Adrianna -at- Mons ter .com with the subject “Monster.com suggests You the new job, Jonathan Franzone.” I do have an account at monster.com, but I have never received an email like this so of course I opened it up to see what was up. My first indicator that this email ... More About: Internet , Phishing , Scam
Win A $100 Best Buy Gift Card
2007-10-15 19:00:00 Want a chance to win a $100 gift card from Best Buy? It’s easy. Just take the Dice Salary Survey and provide your email address at the end of the survey to enter. I just completed the survey and it only took about ten minutes… really no big deal. The offer expires October 26, 2007 ... More About: Card , Giveaways , Gift
How Do You Organize Your Desk?
2007-10-15 17:13:00 Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. More About: Organize , Humor , Desk , Organ
Friday Song Of The Day - Emotional Rescue
2007-10-12 17:56:00 Emotional Rescue by The Rolling Stones appears on their Forty Licks album from 1980. I love the song as with many of The Stones songs. The content though appears to be a guy pleading with some woman to leave her husband or boyfriend to be with him. Hmm… a song of adultery, possibly? Of course ... More About: Song , Friday , Emotional
Frank Herbert?s Dune - Audiobook
2007-10-11 18:30:00 I just finished Frank Herbert’s Dune on audiobook and am completely stoked. It really made the commute back and forth to my new job so tolerable. I saw the old movie made back in 1984 for which I have always been a fan. However, I never read the actual book and now I regret that ... More About: Entertainment , Audiobook , Frank Herbert
PC Problems - The End In Sight
2007-10-11 03:49:00 As per my last couple of blogs I have been having some problems using my PC… I can’t use it. I have been receiving the error “A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code 4: 0×80090006“. This is one of those elusive problems that has many postings on ... More About: Operating Systems , Problems , Sight
A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for th
2007-10-10 17:10:00 Well, the saga of the broken PC continues. I’ve tried running Windows recovery console from my Windows XP disc, but have not been able to get back up and running. The computer still boots fine and I can see all of my files there at the console, but no login in normal Windows mode. I ... More About: Operating Systems , Problem , License , Accu
PC Woes
2007-10-08 14:57:00 Well my PC took a huge dump this weekend. It’s an odd sort of problem as you can actually boot the computer up. There are a few unknown exception errors that popup as the login screen appears. Then when I try to login it gives me some strange error about validating my Windows license and ... More About: Hardware , Operating Systems
How To Convert Tab Delimited Text To HTML Using AWK
More articles from this author:2007-10-05 16:46:00 Have you ever needed to quickly process a text file into some other format… say HTML? Well, I run across this problem more frequently than you might suspect and there is one tool that I use quite often to solve the problem. AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, ... More About: Tutorials , Text , Convert , Html , Deli 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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