I’ve been tinkering around with things on my new WordPress install, and one of the tweaks I just rolled out was changing the default behavior of the “link” button in my post editor to add ‘target=”new”‘ to the end of URLs I’m linking to. Simple enough tweak (look for quicktags.js in your wp-includes/js directory, kids), [...]
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Sweet – my Dish DVR is illegal!
April 21st, 2008
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Well, just the 942 I have upstairs and the 721 I have stuffed away in a closet somewhere – and it doesn’t apply to me since I already bought them. But the fallout of the TiVo patent case apparently is that Dish can’t sell those machines anymore. Of course, they’re not actually selling them anymore, [...]
Extraface scores Yahoo thrift store gem
April 21st, 2008
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My buddy and former EarthLink underling Dave Coustan (brilliantly known as Extraface out in the world) scored himself a hell of a find at a thrift store this weekend. The Yahoo Web Speak game no doubt made many a girl LOL around the turn of the century, and I hear Microsoft and Yahoo executives are [...]
Helio personal data breached
April 10th, 2008
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I got a notice yesterday from Helio, my former wireless carrier through my former employer, that I am among a group of their subscribers whose personal information may have been breached and that I’m in danger of identify theft because of it. We are writing to you because of a recent compromise in security. Helio [...]
April 1 should be Power Off The Internet Day
March 31st, 2008
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Just to spare everybody the inevitable flood of lame online April Fools pranks, the Internet should just be powered off for the day.
This Sirius / XM plan I can endorse
July 23rd, 2007
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So in hopes of getting their merger to go through, Sirius and XM are now pitching the idea of ala carte packaging of channels as a subscription option. As stupid as the idea of buying TV channels ala carte (ads and carry fees still pay the bills on most of cable, kids, so ESPN would [...]
LSU + XM = Boo
June 5th, 2007
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LSU and the SEC are jumping ship from Sirius to XM for sports broadcasts, with most schools (including LSU) switching over to XM this fall. To that, I say boo. As I”ve said before, XM sucks. They suck because their music channels suck. Sports, talk and other programming is a matter of what deals they [...]
Apple Store Down
June 1st, 2007
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No, really. A physical Apple Store “closed for renovations” and – according to the nice gentleman who told us not to take photos – re-opening tomorrow morning [check that: apple.com says June 9]. This is the Apple Store at Lenox Square in Atlanta – today, June 1 around 11:15. So are they remodeling for some [...]
Please calm down about Google Maps in New Orleans
April 3rd, 2007
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If there was any doubt that Google”s new position in the mindset of America is “rich whipping boy”, that”s been clearly shown in the past few days of this “Google thinks Katrina never happened” crap. For those of you too caught up in the endless sea of lame April Fools” stories online, here”s the skinny [...]
All Rise! … now what’s my password again?
March 28th, 2007
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As part of my free life lesson program, I had the distinct pleasure to be in Atlanta Traffic Court Monday afternoon for the first live session using the court”s new computerized case-management system. The pleasure came from the pure comedy involved in watching a staid old traffic court judge try to use one of those [...]
