geek of technology

Earlier this month, Angry Birds became available in the Chrome web store, and I said: http://twitter.com/#!/jazzs3quence/status/79187238893789185   Here’s another reason not to get an iPhone. Pixlr is an online photo editor.  It’s sort of a mini Photoshop that’s completely web-based.  It’s also the default image editor application that comes bundled (well, sort of) with PeppermintOS. […]

A while ago, I decided it was time to get a laptop.  I’ve been meeting with local clients more and having a laptop handy would make a lot of that stuff go more smoothly.  I’m also on the web committee for my kids’ school, and have had to borrow someone else’s laptop to do WordPress […]

A month or so back, Google announced its new plan to take over the world: Google Music.  No one was really sure what it did, but it was made by Google and it had something to do with music, so it had to be good right?  Oh, and there was something in there about syncing […]

Yesterday, all my sites were down for almost the entire day. Probably longer, actually. The issue stemmed from a server resource spike that started sometime in the afternoon on the previous day. Whatever caused the spike caused the process to hang indefinitely. Attempts to reboot the server did not succeed (despite the DreamHost backend telling […]

  When Steve Jobs isn’t happy, he really isn’t happy | Technically Incorrect – CNET News. This article uses the word “reportedly” far too many times (twice in the excerpt below, alone).  Considering it’s not really even a real article, just an amusing anecdote from another article with some bland commentary, it makes me seriously […]

I somehow missed the hype machine for the new social browser, RockMelt.  So, when @LastPass tweeted that it worked with RockMelt, my ears perked up.  RockMelt? WTF is that? RockMelt is a new kind of browser, or so the introductory video told me, one that combines your social web with your browsing experience.  We’ve met such browsers […]

I’ve been a sideline fan of Linux for a long time.  My very first experience with it was buying one of those 800 page, dictionary-sized technical manuals for Linux which came with Red Hat, Slackware and Caldera.  I effectively destroyed my Windows 95 box trying to get Red Hat installed and failing. After that, I was much more cautious, […]

Read this.  Then come back.  It’s okay, I’ll wait. WordPress.com Blogs Garnered 23 Billion Pageviews in 2010 It’s the last paragraph the bugs me. The five-year-old company may be experiencing remarkable growth, but it has yet to become a commercial success. The startup reportedly makes around $1 million per month from premium and hosting services, […]

I’ve flipped back to iTunes as my default audio player.  I was avoiding it for a long, long time for a lot of reasons but when WinAmp randomly stopped playing OGG files (which I have a lot of), and I couldn’t fix it, I installed the Xiph QuickTime Components plugin and downloaded the latest version of iTunes.  And I […]

For a long time I’ve told people “I’m not really a coder.  I hate programming.”  It’s true that when I took Assembly Language and C++ in college, I barely scraped by and mostly hated every minute.  The only part I didn’t hate, in fact, was when I finally wrote something that worked, and this was […]

One of the things I heard at WordCamp Utah was that it’s not what you learn at WordCamp as much as the research and stuff you learn once you get home and start trying all this stuff out.  In that sense, I don’t think I actually left WordCamp at approximately 5:30 Saturday evening a few […]

If you were to take a poll today of approval ratings for Barack Obama, I can guarantee that the number of supporters in this country of our President is far surpassed by the number of people who use Google services on a daily basis. How did this happen?  How did we become so complacent?  How […]