For anyone whose ever worked a helpdesk or other IT support, this one is for you.
Thanks Andy!
Category Archive for 'web sites'
Hulu.com is Nifty
Posted in film, television, web sites on Jun 11th, 2008
Why pay $1 for Red Box when you can stream movies for free on Hulu? Sure it isn’t as good a selection at Blockbuster or Red Box and the quality isn’t the same as a DVD, but you can’t beat the price. The best part is that it’s legit. NBC Universal and News Corp. teamed [...]
NowPublic Trolling Flickr
Posted in legal rights, web sites on May 17th, 2008
I received a Flickr Mail from a NowPublic member asking if they could use a photo of mine in an article about National Chocolate Chip Day. The article itself isn’t really an article at all, just a summary of another article. Geek that I am, a link is a link and the photo doesn’t mean [...]
NIN Releases Ghosts I-IV
Posted in music, things i'd like to see, web sites on Mar 7th, 2008
I downloaded Ghosts I this evening and gave it a listen. I also listened to some of the tracks on the site itself (click “Listen”). Completely instrumental, I like the assortment. It doesn’t have the polish of Reznor’s typical studio album that you can only assume was the product of months in the studio mixing [...]
The Check’s in the Mail
Posted in cars, complaints, oddities, web sites on Feb 12th, 2008
I got a parking ticket in Federal Hill this weekend. The usual complaints about oddly worded parking signs aside, there’s no contesting that I was parked in the wrong place. I did, unknowingly, and I’m not worried. I have good karma when it comes to parking. I usually find it without too many problems and [...]
On a whim, I migrated my domain’s mail to Google Apps yesterday. Without explaining the virtues of outsourced application hosting, simply put the email sent to this domain is now handled entirely by Google.
So far I’m impressed.
The whole process took less than an hour. After you provide your domain name, Google provides file called googlehostedservice.html [...]
Synchronize Your Watch and Clock Radio
Posted in in the news, oddities, web sites on Dec 21st, 2007
For those who need additional reasoning to have some of the late-night weekend sex or a horrible (but sourced, damnit) pickup line for trolling, here it is (courtesy of them thar Intarweb tubes).
Tomorrow, December 22 at 6:08PM GMT is Global Orgasm time. For us East Coasters, that is 1:08am 12/23/2007
(Sat night/Sun morning Saturday morning).
For more [...]
Smoke Free Integration with Google Maps
Posted in boozing, culture, food, gadgets, web sites on Dec 11th, 2007
Since Google Maps allows us to do custom layers, all the smoke free places on the list so have been plotted on a map. I was going to do this via the Google Maps API, but this was so much easier than dealing with the XML plus it allows collaboration.
The Map (which has a hideous [...]
Paintjam Video, Per Conversation
Posted in web sites on Nov 17th, 2007
While experiencing some local artists last night, I was reminded of this video of one of Dan Dunn’s Paintjam performances that Andy showed me while at the Shore. Strangely I had been talking to a few coworkers earlier yesterday about the medium. The embedded YouTube video follows.
Check it out.
I’ve seen Shutterfly prints before, but I had no idea I could pickup my Shutterfly prints at Target.
Shutterfly charges $0.19 per 4×6. That’s pretty cheap considering the quality of the product, but their standard shipping and handling takes 7-10 business days. I couldn’t wait that long. Target charges $0.25 per 4×6 at their kiosk. Still [...]
Word, homies. Because someone I know just finished the installment of Harry Potter. Butterbeer forties. Clever.
I do enjoy a good action flick. Spare me the plot, bring on the martial arts. Off to see Jason Statham and Jet Li bust it up in War.
I heard this on WRNR on the way back from Rivera’s. I nearly drove off the road I was laughing so hard. It’s a funky duo called Flight of the Conchords, who apparently have an HBO special these days (although I wouldn’t know since I don’t get HBO).
Don’t watch on your iPhone while driving.
Fancy a Drive to McDonald’s to Pickup Playboy Magazine?
Posted in culture, food, google, idiots, oddities, web sites on Aug 5th, 2007
I dropped someone off at Office Depot to pick up a few things yesterday. I had groceries in the car so I kept it running and backed into a space in the shade facing the front door so I could see when they came out. Bear in mind that I’m about 200 feet from the [...]
I just got back from seeing The Bourne Ultimatum at Muvico. After a really quick pint of Bad Moon Porter we made it into the theater with fifteen minutes to spare. Or so we thought, since the first row was the only row that could fit our five. Without plot spoilers I can say that [...]
Intercourse and Intelligence
Posted in college, culture, web sites, youth on Aug 1st, 2007
There is an interesting article on Gene Expression about Intercourse and Intelligence (featured on Slashdot today). Many of the comments were from an NIH paper entitled Smart Teens Don’t Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either). You can read the documents yourself but here’s a few things that stood out to me.
“By the age of 19, [...]