Archive for the 'nerd' Category

Nintendo Giving Naperville Some Props?

Friday, November 17th, 2006

While trying to get my fix of Nintendo news/info with 24 hours left before the launch of the Wii, I stumbled upon this commercial that Nintendo entitled, “Naperville”… Without giving away too much information about where I live, the title instantly grabbed me. ;)

My Wii procurement strategy is Meijer (at midnight) -> Target [...]

Dear ActiveSync…

Monday, September 25th, 2006

You suck.

You see, you’ve jacked up my computer TWICE today by completely hosing all of my network connections. Looking back, I didn’t need you then and I still don’t need you. You made it seem like you were going to solve all of my problems, but after a quick reboot you turned on [...]

Matt Has Preserved a Piece of the Internet

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Matt has saved the Tao of Regular Expressions. I have used this once or twice in my day and now know where I can always get it (without having to Google it)…

I thought it was just me…

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

I got bombarded with comment spam over the last 24 hours and was kind of wondering what was going on. Finally catching up with my feeds, I saw that Scoble was having the same problems with spam. It looks like Akismet (the Automattic/Wordpress spam filter) was down (and now, back up).

Wow, [...]

My Amazon Bookmarklet

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I used to have a bookmarklet for generating Amazon Associates links but it hasn’t worked for quite a while. Amazon has been known to change their URLs from time to time and with one of their changes, this tool just stopped working.

After doing a quick search I decided that rather than use someone’s overly [...]