Category Archives: Technology

WPMU: Making Stats Plugins Work With Plugin Commander

Posted on January 21, 2009 by roger

Okay, so there is one little problem with PC that can really drive ya nuts when dealing with certain plugins. I first noticed it while playing with the WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics for WordPress: both place the links to … Continue reading →

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WPMU: Plugin Commander

Posted on January 21, 2009 by roger

My still-young relationship with WordPress MU just got a lot more satisfying: I discovered Plugin Commander. One of the first things a WPMU newbie is likely to encounter is the messy reality of the WordPress plugin ecosystem and interface. On … Continue reading →

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The Long Aloha

Posted on January 13, 2009 by roger

And so the adventure begins. I wrote my first blog hosting app in 1999. Poor thing was a barely-there knock-off of Blogger, but it got the job done for my users. A few months later, I integrated it into the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Decides To Spur Ubuntu Adoption

Posted on April 29, 2008 by roger

Ah, corporate assholes… you’ve gotta love ‘em. Microsoft Exec 1: “Y’know, we’ve built this OS with a staggering number of security holes. 500,000 machines running our software were compromised in a single wave last week.” Microsoft Exec 2: “We kinda … Continue reading →

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Mind Mapping

Posted on December 24, 2007 by roger

I’m currently falling in love with something, so I’m gonna share it. It’s called mind mapping, and the implementation I’m using is found at Bubbl.us. The idea is that you sort of build a web out of your thoughts. For … Continue reading →

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ViP622 vs. TiVo: The First Month

Posted on August 16, 2007 by roger

vs. I’ve been a TiVo diehard since 1999, when we bought our first 14-hour, single-tuner model. I suffered through those early days of buggy software, smiled as the platform became reliable, and got comfy with all the little touches that … Continue reading →

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Essential Tremor on Vacation

Posted on March 31, 2006 by roger

So here’s the deal… I had the chance to work with a TV station/website and produce content for Spring Break 2006 in Panama City, FL. Then I remembered that shaky hands and video cameras don’t mix. Duh. My first approach … Continue reading →

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Dean Kamen Goes Third World

Posted on February 16, 2006 by roger

I don’t want to gush over something that could turn out to be another brilliant gizmo that is wholly impractical in the real world, but… The Segway creator’s next entrepreneurial spin – Feb. 16, 2006 Dean Kamen, the engineer who … Continue reading →

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Xbox 360: Media Center Extender

Posted on November 23, 2005 by roger

Stuff you need to know: You cannot stream video over the network to the 360 without a Windows Media Center 2005 computer. If you buy a MC2k5 PC for this purpose, expect to go through a series of six or … Continue reading →

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Guilt By Association

Posted on October 5, 2005 by roger

My wife went back and forth about buying this Dooney & Bourke cellphone case. I was willing to get her whatever she wanted, because she very seldom buys accessories, and never buys anything expensive. (She’s a cheap little bugger.) But … Continue reading →

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