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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …