Category: Geekery

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Googling Yourself Can Be Useful

Here I am, minding my own business, comparing results between two search engines – Cuil and G<a…

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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…

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Severely Overpriced Computer Cables

My brother Tony’s blog can be a bit, well, geeky and way over my head when he…

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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…

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Is It You?

Ever wanted to know whether a site was down or whether it was you? This site is…

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Reading Comprehension 101

I was reading the comments to a post over on Making Light when I saw a post…

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coComment. Good Idea / Bad Idea?

coComment is a site that offers the service of tracking your comments through cyberspace on the various…

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Software Piracy in Sri Lanka

In a previous post, I talked a bit about piracy and copyright violations in Sri Lanka and…

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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,…

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More Copyright Violations

In yesterday’s post, I alluded to the fact that I’ve experienced more than just one copyright violation….

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Copyright Violations

Again. sigh This all started with the Book In a Week (BIW) group on Yahoo! Groups. One…

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More Cool Sites

A Glimpse of the Milky Way. Click on it and look. This is a seriously cool way…

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Some interesting websites

I came across some interesting websites… A new way to multiply – it’s bizarre to me, but…

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AVG 8.0

It ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. First, there’s the increased RAM footprint, close to double…

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Handy Trackback Tool

I found this trackback tool. Handy if you want to send a trackback to another site if…

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Back To Pressing Word, Part Deux

Part One is over on Fahim‘s site. 😀 Fahim announced to me two days ago that he…

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The Price of a Picasso Painting

I read this on Absolute Write today: A friend once told me the story of Picasso: Picasso…

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The Lost Room

The Lost Room played on TV today. We hadn’t heard about it and knew nothing about it…

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Neil Gaiman, American Gods, and Stardust

Yesterday, Fahim and I watched Stardust, the movie. We loved it. Absolutely completely adored it. It was…

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Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

I’m currently reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. It’s a somewhat interesting, yet disappointing, read. The interesting bit…