August 11th, 2009
Beware of the digital mob
Since I’m on the computer all day at work and monitor my company’s Twitter account, I’m watching Twitter all day, my own personal account included. So when I discovered my web sites were down I tweeted about it. In reply I was told that my hosting service, 1&1, had a major outage. Curious, I started [...]
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August 3rd, 2009
Please tweet your blog
I’m not sure if it’s sad to admit that I know get most of my news links from Twitter than your regular RSS feed, but that’s the way it is. However, there’s a fine line when getting Twitter links from article sites is more annoying than useful. Of course, the opposite is true to. If [...]
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July 19th, 2009
Twitter suspension
Mosey along now, nothing to see here. That’s what I saw Friday morning when I tried to log on to my Twitter account. To say it surprised me would be an understatement. And as of this posting my account is still suspended without any hint as to why or for how long…but it’s not like [...]
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July 11th, 2009
Pop-up players to be a thing of the past
I’ve been thinking a lot about web audio players lately. Working for a radio station I’ve had to deal with live web streaming audio for a long time, but not since we put efforts in CAVEradio had I really thought about getting creative with the typical pop-up audio player. As I use CAVEradio as my [...]
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June 16th, 2009
Flickr finally figures out Twitter
Part of the fun in using Twitter is the ease by which you can share photos and even video. Twitpic was one of the early services that offered mail-to-Twitter but now Flickr has finally gotten their act together.
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June 7th, 2009
Facebook and Twitter, when worlds collide
I never really bothered with my MySpace page, I didn’t use my Facebook page. Instead I hopped on Twitter. Twitter made more sense to me for what I wanted to get out of it. Twitter is truly a tool that can be used in many different ways. I made some new friends by way of [...]
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May 22nd, 2009
Why tiny URLs change how we design
We’re in a time of short URLs. With the Twitters and Facebooks and everything else, the links we share with people need to short. Services like TinyURL and TwitterHat turn a long web address into something text message friendly, but do short links make your actual domain and address meaningless?
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April 17th, 2009
The CAVEradio Experience
As we continue to do the weekly CAVEradio show, we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the overall experience. During the live show is one thing - that’s just winging it - but we know that not everyone can tune in live so many probably listen to the podcast replay. Well, after our last show [...]
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April 11th, 2009
Death of Twitter Zombies
Well, you can’t blame a man for trying. What sounded like a fun idea finally died this weekend. TwitterZombies.com was put out to pasture after a bizzare outbreak last week.
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April 11th, 2009
Twitter tools will only lead to addiction
While I did hop on the Twitter bandwagon not all that long ago, Twitter remains a casual web toy. I’ve played with Twitter as a tool, connecting it to applications, services, and even a few games, but beyond that I don’t use it as anything more than a way to communicate with friends and what [...]
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April 6th, 2009
Drop.io is my new flash drive
Even in my short life thus far, I’ve managed to see a lot of change in media…and I mean physical media. I remember there being records in my house, and I had a ton of cassettes. The first family computer yielded mounds of floppy disks and that gave way to stacks of CDs. And lets [...]
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March 24th, 2009
Another good Twitter episode
I had another atypical Twitter episode today and it was a good one. The media may be all anti-Twitter as just another fad they don’t understand, and I may use Twitter as an almost-chat tool with friends, but every now and then something useful comes out of Twitter. Good help.
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March 24th, 2009
Collecting, organizing, and Mythbusters
I’m a collector. Or as some might call it, a pack rat. I can’t help it, it runs in my family. I come from a long line of celebrated pack rats. I like to think I’ve gotten better over the years, but a quick tour of my home and office will certainly argue otherwise. But [...]
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March 21st, 2009
Geeks vs. Geeky
We had a pretty good discussion about geeks and nerds on the latest CAVEradio show in relation to a little web project I’m starting with some of the CAVEcrew. The project is all about geeky stuff, but local geeky stuff. I’m tired of seeing local “lifestyle” magazines about trendy restaurants, indie music, and where to [...]
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March 16th, 2009
TwitterHat gets an update, finally
I’ve been saying on Twitter for weeks that I need and want to update TwitterHat. Well, with a day off I did just that, and now TwitterHat is a little leaner, a little meaner, but pretty much does the same thing.
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March 3rd, 2009
That new Windows smell
I hadn’t had to do a fresh install of my computer and software in quite some time, which is a good thing. But as I mentioned just before, starting over can afford some wonderful opportunities to re-evaluate how your computerize. Shy of all the waiting for Windows updates, this time around I found the re-installation [...]
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March 3rd, 2009
The freedoms of reformatting
I hate computers. I always have and always will. They’re wonderful tools but they are a serious pain in the ass. Be that as it may, computers are no less a hobby and a career. Computers (and technology) are great when they just work, but there’s nothing more frustrating than when it ceases to do [...]
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February 23rd, 2009
Tracking Twitter links with Google Analytics
Sending links in Twitter messages is crazy easy to do and a wonderful aspect of the service, but there are way too many URL-shortening services available (things like TinyURL) that can make tracking Twitter links a real pain in the ass. Sure, you can possibly look up referring stats to see how many people got [...]
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January 10th, 2009
Here we go again
I can feel you rolling your eyes already. I know, I know…yet another theme change. Well, the last big idea didn’t go so well. I think the “full page” theme was a good idea in concept but it took more effort than I anticipated to get a full page designed. The writing was easy. It [...]
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December 21st, 2008
Gaming to get stuff done
Chores suck. Nobody wants to do them but we all know they need to get done. From dishes to trash to scrubbing floors, it’s hard to get motivated to do things around the house. And if you’re like me, you’re not really motivated until it gets to a point of bad, and only then do [...]
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December 17th, 2008
Toast to go
Do you have one of those new fancy “smart” phones? Something like an iPhone or Black Berry? If so, then you’re in luck because you can now get the Morning Toast to go - Bonus!
Technically, you’ve always been able to get the site on a mobile browser but it just got all squished up. I [...]
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December 16th, 2008
Messin’ with Wordpress
It’s not usually a good sign when you blog about blogging, but in this case it’s not really about getting down on my writing or complaining about how I don’t blog anymore. This time it’s about the technical side of blogging, which then leads to the writing side.
I had to do a fresh install of [...]
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November 29th, 2008
Back on the web radio
Some years ago we used to do a weekly on-line radio show. It was just me and Jen rambling into the night about various topics and experiences. We quit about four years ago or so as we got married, got a house, acquired four pets and new jobs. But the radio itch is back.
Only this [...]
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November 22nd, 2008
Twitter Zombies, another pet project, more zombies
I admit, I’m on quite a zombie kick lately. I’m sure it will blow over or get burned out like any other kick, but for now I’m riding it for all its worth. And this time I targeted my zombie love at Twitter.
My original idea was to use Twitter as a gaming method. Some sort [...]
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November 1st, 2008
One more birthday present…from Google!
As if the Xbox 360, my childhood cape, and a Snoopy Sno-Cone maker wasn’t a good enough haul for a birthday, I found out this morning I (finally) made a $100 with Google!
Google AdSense supplies the text/banner ads you see around the site and on the other sites in my “network.” It’s free to use [...]