I broke my Powerbook latch a few weeks ago and have been dreading the replacement process. Since we’re heading up on the New Year I decided to take the plunge and get it fixed. I got to hang out at what they call the “Genius Bar”. This is where all the Apple tech-heads stand around [...]

Sometimes there’s a gift that really makes you feel like a kid again. I normally get a kick out of playing with expensive, high-tech notebooks and devices while there are much cheaper ways to find entertainment. I realized this when my extended family gave me an Air Hogs Aero Ace RC plane. [...]

After a recent install of WordPress I started running into problems with Firefox 1.5 and WP admin. The WYSIWYG editor didn’t appear to be persisting my changes when updating some of the existing posts. When creating hyperlinks and other HTML content they didn’t appear to be making it to the database. I didn’t see [...]

One of the coolest stocking stuffers I received this Christmas was Wasabi in a Tube. I had a chance to put it to use this eve and it tasted close to the real deal. The main difference is that it has more of a toothpaste texture vs. the standard playdoh texture. No big deal as [...]

I’ve been using MovableType for almost two years now and decided to finally make the switch to WordPress. The installation process took less than 10 minutes and I spent most of my time tweaking the look/feel. While I haven’t stretched much beyond the default theme, I’m planning on update this in the coming weeks.
I’m highly [...]

Jakob Nielsen has posted an interesting article about the number of internet users now online. What I find even more suprising is that North America comes in 3rd at 23%.

I’m frustrated to no end about the misuse of the web. I ventured into web land in 1997 where it was a somewhat calm and peaceful place. Nowadays there are so many fraudulent practices going on….one which is known as phishing. I never understood how someone could actually give up their information [...]

If you publish any video content or even consume it, you might find Jakob Nielsen’s video study interesting. While Nielsen is one of those guys people seem to love or hate I tend to learn from his studies. While I used to be on the “hate” side of the fence because of his [...]

The other day I was seriously struggling with a mapping project that included drawing PolyLines on a Google map. To tell you the exact story the application was working perfectly in FireFox. It wasn’t until I fired up IE that I decided to see if there were any problems. I can’t remember [...]

A while back I did a post on installing FlashCom on Fedora Core 3. Tonight I decided to download the latest version of FlashCom now known as Flash Media Server 2. I ran into an install problem with Fedora Core 4 and wanted to mention how I got around it.
When trying to run [...]