Category Archives: Geek

At times, the blog can be a bit like Audrey II — never really satisfied until it’s sucking the “life out of you”:http://wavcentral.com/cgi-bin/log/log.cgi?id=4252&sound=/sounds/movies/little_shop/lshfeed.mp3. I exaggerate, but the feeling of blogger’s guilt that kicks in after successfully maintaining an online presence … Continue reading →

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One of the crucial necessities of being efficient on a new machine for me is to know a few often-used shortcut keys. It’s a nerdy programmer/analyst thing, but I love being able to navigate through the operating system without hardly … Continue reading →

Finally, finally, finally, after four years of waiting, drooling, and pining, I was able to buy one of these. And all I had to do was lose my job. (Well, okay, and then find another job before the severance ran … Continue reading →

As a follow up to my goal of boosting our Google rank for the words “greenwich village,” it occured to me while hacking some site templates that a very minor tweak could possibly reap some huge benefits. If you check … Continue reading →

So, there’s a new free Google product available for download called the Google Accelerator. It’s available here, but you’d best to let this one pass you by. The accelerator uses a concept called a proxy to store web visited pages … Continue reading →

Last week I went on eBay and bought a device that I thought I’d never have another use for: a Palm organizer. If you’ve known me for any amount of time (or perhaps even dug through the archives of this … Continue reading →

Apple doesn’t suck any more. There’s serious innovation going on in Cupertino these days–Steve Jobs put it best at MacWorld a year or two ago, “Microsoft is copying us again, it’s great!” I even own a couple of Apple products….but neither of them are computers, and both of them were gifts. Continue reading →

Um, hi. It’s been a little while since I’ve been here, so, er, I won’t be surprised if you don’t recognize me. That’s okay. The more I keep writing, maybe we’ll both figure out what these blog things are about. (How do you use Movable Type again?) Continue reading →