Converting pages to posts, or vice versa, in WordPress
There’s a handy dandy little plugin for WordPress that can convert pages to posts, or posts to pages, and retain…
Geekery
Twitter, Twittering, and Tweets
<a href=”https://twitter.com/LMAshton” target=”_blank”>I’m twittering now</a>. Have been for a while. It’s kinda fun and interesting. 🙂 <a href=”http://twitter.com” target=”_blank”>Twittering</a>, for…
Norton Internet Security 2009 Not a RAM Pig?
Nope, it ain’t, and that there were many claims that <a href=”http://www.symantec.com/norton/internet-security” target=”_blank”>NIS 2009</a> was not as resource intensive as…
Changing of the anti-virus guard
Yep, it’s true. I’ve been sucked into Fahim’s perpetual cycle of switching anti-virus every few months, only now, it’s expanded…
Search Phrases That Lead People to My Site
Reviewing the search phrases that get people to land here, I see that most of them are, well, mostly sane….
Googling Yourself Can Be Useful
Here I am, minding my own business, comparing results between two search engines – Cuil and G<a href=”https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl” target=”_blank”>oogle</a> if…
Exercise in a Pill?
<a href=”http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25949447/” target=”_blank”>It’s touted as a couch potato’s dream</a>, but the ramifications and potential uses go far beyond fixing a…
Severely Overpriced Computer Cables
My brother Tony’s blog can be a bit, well, geeky and way over my head when he talks about programming,…
Cork as a Renewable Resource
Browsing my <a href=”http://blogs.msmvps.com/access/” target=”_blank”>brother’s blog</a>, I read an entry where he links to a news article on <a href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7623912.stm”…
Is It You?
Ever wanted to know whether a site was down or whether it was you? This site is especially useful for…
Reading Comprehension 101
I was reading the comments to a post over on Making Light when I saw a post Teresa Nielsen Hayden…
coComment. Good Idea / Bad Idea?
coComment is a site that offers the service of tracking your comments through cyberspace on the various blogs you visit…
Software Piracy in Sri Lanka
In a previous post, I talked a bit about piracy and copyright violations in Sri Lanka and I mentioned it’s…
Piracy, Plagiarism, and Stolen Content in Sri Lanka
Speaking about yesterday’s post and that news site, there’s a lot more content on that site that, I believe, is…
More Copyright Violations
In yesterday’s post, I alluded to the fact that I’ve experienced more than just one copyright violation. I have, although…
Copyright Violations
Again. sigh This all started with the Book In a Week (BIW) group on Yahoo! Groups. One person posted a…
More Cool Sites
A Glimpse of the Milky Way. Click on it and look. This is a seriously cool way to view the…
Some interesting websites
I came across some interesting websites… A new way to multiply – it’s bizarre to me, but it looks like…
Handy Trackback Tool
I found this trackback tool. Handy if you want to send a trackback to another site if your blog doesn’t…
Back To Pressing Word, Part Deux
Part One is over on Fahim‘s site. 😀 Fahim announced to me two days ago that he was thinking of…
The Price of a Picasso Painting
I read this on Absolute Write today: A friend once told me the story of Picasso: Picasso was sitting in…
The Lost Room
The Lost Room played on TV today. We hadn’t heard about it and knew nothing about it other than what…
Neil Gaiman, American Gods, and Stardust
Yesterday, Fahim and I watched Stardust, the movie. We loved it. Absolutely completely adored it. It was engaging, fun, pure…
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
I’m currently reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. It’s a somewhat interesting, yet disappointing, read. The interesting bit is because of…