Category Archives: Web
Bagging a President
Betsy & Hope are off to “bag a president” (i.e. climb a mountain in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire). And true to form,their motto for the trip is: Go Big or Go Home Ten Highest Peaks of the Presidential … Continue reading
TrackMania
I’m posting this here so I have a place to point my cousin Jake Hodges. He gets the same kick out of driving racetracks as I do, but he does it in a real car. And I know he enjoys … Continue reading
Need to convert UTM to Lat / Long?
My wife hikes the Palmetto Trail with her childhood friend. They call me “Compass” because I get on Google Earth and map out their route then download it into the GPS. The maps provided by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation have … Continue reading
News 2.0
or “Geeks are hard wired to one-up other geeks” I suppose it would just illustrate my kinship with these souls to publish a formula from my hypothesis that “15 minutes of fame” is an outdated concept. Given that News 2.0 … Continue reading
An Aggravavor's Take on Global Warming
Scott Adams is the author of the Dilbert cartoon series. He also writes a daily blog where, as near as I can tell, he tries to instigate people into vehemently attacking or defending some point of view in an argument … Continue reading
Should you upgrade to Vista?
No.* No: If you already have WinXP on a computer that is less than 3 years old, I’m a big fan of ftain’t bro’akded, do’an fuxut. No, just buy a new PC: If you have WinXP on a PC that’s … Continue reading
Rock On! Japanese-style
Turns out there’s an iTunes US that sells music licensed in the US… and a different iTunes for Japan and, to take Kipling slightly out of context, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” … Continue reading
Line Rider Pwnage
You won’t often find me using 1337speak, but I messed around with Line Rider when it first came out, and this is totally and completely over the top. Yes, he used the “new” version and I only ever messed with … Continue reading
Stomp Rocket!
Jack’s 4th birthday was just a few days away, and we hadn’t gotten him a present yet. We knew there were going to be plenty of trains and cars and books and games, but I wanted to get him an … Continue reading
Eureka!
…or one person’s impatient survey of open source CMS-capable software that can be installed in my budget-hosted Microsoft Windows environment.
Long story short: after trying-on numerous CMS frameworks, like a bride at a discount wedding-dress warehouse sale, I found “Textpattern”:txp to be the one for me. Continue reading