Category: Geek Stuff

In my efforts to both make myself seem cooler and decrease my workload (overblown hype and laziness, double score!), I’ve decided to go about the process of converting this blog to WordPress. When I installed this guy last year, it served its purpose well, but I learned a valuable lesson: with technology, start with the most popular and move to… Read more →

There was this scene in National Treasure where Nicholas Cage manages to put some invisible dye on the fingers of this hot girl so he can use a magic flashlight to see the letters she used for a passcode to the diagnostics room for the Delcaration of Independence. What is the relevance you may ask? Well, his geeky sidekick runs… Read more →

Saw this posted on The Photine Blog and had to put it here. Wow. Read more →

I don’t usually talk about my web development business on here. Part of me doesn’t because I think it is probably boring for most folks. The other part of me doesn’t want to post anything that could irritate, make uncomfortable, annoy or generally piss off a current or potential client. The next couple of things, however, I think are ineffectual… Read more →

Apparently, my silly little post about going to Target was amusing weird enough to make it onto the Chron.com Blog Watch page. Must’ve been a slow news day. — — Here’s the larger version if you are still in utter disbelief or just like looking at screen capture images, in which case, you probably need help. Read more →

Some of you geeks and nerds might be interested in an event where I and my business partner will be panelists this Thursday. It’s a community roundtable discussion about the future of IT in Houston, particularly its impact on lowered enrollment in local college IT programs. The event is being hosted by Michael Garfield, the High Tech Texan at American… Read more →

Remembering the Hurricane Rita evacuation and the fact that, despite all my blustering about how this year I’ll be organized, if my computer went down, I’d be in big trouble, I decided to do some serious backing up of my files today. I had already backed them up onto an external hard drive last week, but I really needed to… Read more →

This is the warning I receive when I try and view an Associated Press video linked on the front page of the Houston Chronicle. Now, I know as a Mac user that I am going to have some degree of limitation, but to be THIS specific that you must have Internet Explorer VERSION 6 is just bizarre. Speaking as someone… Read more →

Some of you may have noticed that a spammer flooded my comments on the site. ARRRRGGGGHHH!!! Must kill. Read more →