Stop with the Hello Dolly plugin

Please WordPress, stop including the ‘Hello Dolly’ plugin with system upgrades!

thank you.

Everyone: Hi, T

i can has a blackberry. it’s my calendar, a gaming device (Texas Holdem anyone?), i tweet on it, i check multiple email addresses… oh, and i can make phone calls with it too.

my gravatar is from a hilarious web video any true designer geek will love. I’ve got accounts on facebook, myspace, linkedin, twitter, stumbleupon, AIM, yahoo!, msn, gtalk, ICQ, skype and more email addresses than any sane person can check on a daily basis.

it’s becoming more and more difficult to put time into any of these – as all these things can be a total time-sucking waste of time. but they’re also a lot of fun – i’m able to keep in touch with friends i’ve not spoken to in a coon’s age.

i’ve experimented with a myriad of different multi-client IM applications; trillian, pidgin and my current favorite is digsby – as it not only combines my most commonly used IMs (aim, msn, gtalk) into one app, it also brings in the aforementioned social network accounts and a few of the email accounts. it’s a pretty crazy-awesome app and i’ve found it VERY useful. having everything in one app – and a FREE app at that! how totally boss is that?

well, i started talking about my blackberry… and it’s about time i bring that back into the fold. this is where blackping comes into play. i like to update the status of the plethora of social networks – but i don’t want to have to do it multiple times – it gets annoying after updating 4 different networks every time i deem it worthy of my time to update the stati (statuses). and i oft liken to update from the blackberry when i’m on the go. sometimes just to show people what twitter is, or something like that – ya know, to keep my geekdom alive and well. so i was googling to see if there was an app out there that could handle all of these social networks and i could update the status for all or, better yet, selective networks all at once. i came across ping.fm – pretty slick. i’m able to send my status to any or all of my social networks at the same time… NOW, let’s take this to the next level. how to get ping.fm functionality on the bb. well, i stumbled across this bb app – blackping. it’s developed by a small operation (if not just one guy), it’s still pretty new and i just downloaded and installed it today. but the test run worked – and i am over due for an update on the site. it’s still fairly rough around the edges, it’s not flashy – it doesn’t have cute graphics, but it does appear to sync with ping.fm using an app key and solves my ‘how do i update all statuses from the bb?’ question quite well.

if you have a blackberry and you are a geek with multiple social networks and selective twitter status on facebook just isn’t enough… check out blackping – let me and the developer know what you think.

I'd actually be happy to see the BSOD

so now i’m using an old 15″ gateway LCD monitor because i got rid of all my old CRT monitors and i have no other options. i’ve been scouring the internets for new monitor deals, but every monitor is a widescreen. why? why can’t i get a nice 4:3 ratio monitor or two? i do not care for widescreen, never have. it’s impossible to get a non-widescreen laptop anymore as well. i’m in the market for some new hardware – but i’m not excited about anything i see. i don’t know how i ever did this in the past… one monitors suck and one small monitors sucks even more.

initially, i thought it would be cool to post this as 100! pushups… which, of course, would be wrong because i had to google 100!. and google’s fun calculator returned the value 9.33262154 × 10¹⁵⁷, which is big much bigger than i had thought… and that’s when i realized 100! is not 1+2+3+4…+99+100… it’s 1×2x3×4…x99×100. alas, the kewlness of the post’s title dropped 100! fold (ha).

all was not lost, however, as i clicked on the link in my search to find the pages of the google search term “100!” or google search “+100!”. and came across the wikipedia page for 100. and i got lost in how cool numbers are. for example:

One hundred is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is “hecto-”.

One hundred is the basis of percentages (literally “per hundred”), with 100% being a full amount.

It is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, as well as the sum of two prime numbers (47 + 53, 17 +83, 3 + 97, 41 + 59), and the sum of the cubes of the first four integers (100 = 13 + 23 + 33 + 43). Also, 26 + 62 = 100, thus 100 is a Leyland number.

One hundred is also an 18-gonal number. It is divisible by the number of primes below it, 25 in this case. But it can not be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total of coprimes below it, making it a noncototient. However, it can be expressed as a sum of some of its divisors, making it a semiperfect number.

100 is a Harshad number in base 10, and also in base 4, and in that base it is a self-descriptive number.

this may sound pretty geeky… but dude, numbers are awesomes

and it would only be appropriate for me to try to help you out. so here is my help:

it’s time for me to update the site. I’ve created two brand new Wordpress websites for work (the UplandTales and LEP sites) and i started looking at my site some… i started this site a bunch of years ago and didn’t know jack about how WP works… well, i know more now and i realize i’ve not been using WP to it’s fullest – i’ve been doing a lot outside the box and it doesn’t need to be. i don’t have a design in place quite yet, so i’ll probably just keep the boring old WP standard theme in place until i get something put together (i have some ideas, but they’re still in my head). but i wanted to start putting the blocks in place to use WP as the CMS it’s become and not just a blogging tool as i was using it before.

i love the fluidity of the internets!

edit: i just uploaded and activated my old theme, which surprisingly, doesn’t break anything. w00t! so the site will continue to look like this with not much going on cept the blog, until i get a design/theme put together – so ‘more of the same’, anyone??

I’ve watched this many, many times, and i still giggle…

“Mailbox, Open Mailbox” ~WingDings

why being a geek is awesome

because things like this on the internets make you giggle, not because of the elegant graphics, but because you actually get it.

again, thank you to everyone for all the support we’ve gotten. we honestly can’t thank you enough. and to all of our friends who are still waiting to see the lil guy… patience

and you can watch the geeks at mozilla scramble to get their site up so people can download the browser that is “all that is man” at www.mogulus.com/air_mozilla

i am such a geek

I’ve been using the beta and RC1-3s of FireFox 3 (FF3), but a lot of the very useful add-ons that i use haven’t been upgraded for FF3 yet, so i’m very excited for this release, so that the developers can update the add-ons for FF3, especially the theme designers (i miss Noia, it feels so weird with another theme, when it’s my computer).

for those completely lost, firefox is a web browser. a far superior web browser than IE. it’s faster, standards compliant, safer, open source and has the backing of millions if not billions of geeks around the world. the add-ons are extremely useful (especially for a computer geek like myself) and greatly reduces the time it takes to find issues in a website (for the early stages in design and for tweakings towards the end). if there weren’t a handful of stupid websites that actually require IE, i’d completely ditch it. however, i am not so lucky. sign up for the download and prepare to surf like you’ve never surfed before…