Misc
Bawls For Bloggers
Quick, what do Bloggers and Fitness freaks have in common? Give up? They tend to drink lots and lots of java. Yep, especially those bloggers raking $10,000+ in Adsense. Their income is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of their entries. That means bloggers have to stay late and remain focused. Hence the coffee [...]
20Sep2008 | Joseph Plazo | 3 comments | ContinuedHow To Tame The Annoying Vista UAC
Users of Windows Vista go nuts when the screen goes dark during the appearance of the User Account Control window . I personally find it vexing. M$ calls it the “Secure Desktop”, but it can drive you insane after the upteenth instance. Here’s how to tame it.
(Note that this will make your system less [...]
How To Do a Schumacker
Im sure many of you are into Formula 1. Or at the very least, Nascar. Now, how’d you like to live that dream… at least, vicariously? Then check out this amazing new vehicle created by AxonRacing.
Axon’s new RC Hovercraft uses no wheels employs massive lift by jetstreams…allowing it to race about 1 inch above the ground. At overdrive, this [...]
How To Get Indexed in 3 Hours
I grin whenever I see SEO offers at Digital Point that go:
“3001 Blogposts for $40″
“891 Backlinks on our 791 blog network - $99″
You can get 9999 backlinks from these blogs which are mostly PR0, filled with machine generated pulp and you still won’t get indexed in the nearby future. You see, Google looks at the quality [...]
Feedback: Workplace Discipline
Some of you will be fortunate enough to never have to worry about the scrutiny of your work by another party or parties, great hulking internet mogols that you are. The rest of us work in environments where there is either some form of regimented or loose set of disciplinary protocol that governs aspects of [...]
24Jul2008 | Michael Lankton | 2 comments | Continued
Fear And Platitudes
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-Marcus Aurelius
Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon
I used to rely on Norton’s Speed Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and Diskeeper to optimize my HDD. Defragmenting is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on the disk. Many still believe that defragmenting hard disk drives on a regular basis [...]
3Jul2008 | Joseph Plazo | 19 comments | Continued
Flashback: Internet Relay Chat
Usenet is dead. It withered in the face of competition from web forums, mailing lists and blog comments, and to an extent, BitTorrent. It didn’t help that by the end most of usenet had degenerated into a useless free-for-all where socially inept malcontents trolled and flamed, with little else going on by the end. With [...]
24Jun2008 | Michael Lankton | 4 comments | Continued
Feedback: How Are You Coping With High Petroleum Prices?
We’re in the middle of an oil crisis that is terribly similar to the one our parents enjoyed in the early 70’s. The oil companies have almost doubled the per gallon price of gasoline, at least in the states, and inflation across the board has followed as consumer prices in nearly every sector have risen. [...]
18Jun2008 | Michael Lankton | 15 comments | ContinuedHoly Gadget Batman Apple Releases *Insert Name Here*
Warning:*This post may contain spoilers!*
As the picture shows Apple has done it again. They’ve just announced it at the WWDC08 in San Francisco. I know that because I’m liveblogging from the PWAAWWDC08 (People Who Aren’t Attending WWDC08 aka. my living room).
They’ve taken *insert common gadget name here* reinvented and redesigned it. All I can say [...]




