Category: Geekery
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Googling Yourself Can Be Useful
Here I am, minding my own business, comparing results between two search engines – Cuil and G<a…
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…
Severely Overpriced Computer Cables
My brother Tony’s blog can be a bit, well, geeky and way over my head when he…
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…
Is It You?
Ever wanted to know whether a site was down or whether it was you? This site is…
Reading Comprehension 101
I was reading the comments to a post over on Making Light when I saw a post…
coComment. Good Idea / Bad Idea?
coComment is a site that offers the service of tracking your comments through cyberspace on the various…
Software Piracy in Sri Lanka
In a previous post, I talked a bit about piracy and copyright violations in Sri Lanka and…
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,…
More Copyright Violations
In yesterday’s post, I alluded to the fact that I’ve experienced more than just one copyright violation….
Copyright Violations
Again. sigh This all started with the Book In a Week (BIW) group on Yahoo! Groups. One…
More Cool Sites
A Glimpse of the Milky Way. Click on it and look. This is a seriously cool way…
Some interesting websites
I came across some interesting websites… A new way to multiply – it’s bizarre to me, but…
Handy Trackback Tool
I found this trackback tool. Handy if you want to send a trackback to another site if…
Back To Pressing Word, Part Deux
Part One is over on Fahim‘s site. 😀 Fahim announced to me two days ago that he…
The Price of a Picasso Painting
I read this on Absolute Write today: A friend once told me the story of Picasso: Picasso…
The Lost Room
The Lost Room played on TV today. We hadn’t heard about it and knew nothing about it…
Neil Gaiman, American Gods, and Stardust
Yesterday, Fahim and I watched Stardust, the movie. We loved it. Absolutely completely adored it. It was…
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
I’m currently reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. It’s a somewhat interesting, yet disappointing, read. The interesting bit…