Archive for June, 2007
ROTFLMA nerd-style
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A quickie drive-by post. I just got my ever-so-often RSS feed from XKCD.com. Randall Munroe, the cartoonist/math nerd/physicist/comic simply nails nerd humor, over and over.
Today’s comic:
<– Click for the original image.
Had me literally rolling on the floor, gasping for breath. OK, I’ll admit, it’s a geek/nuke/physicist thing. If you kinda [...]
On the Road to Blog Heaven Part 3
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Hosting Companies
In this installment I’m going to recount my experiences with a variety of hosting companies. As I mentioned before, I was moving from GoDaddy because of the poor service and also with the goal of painless blog setup and operation. I hit a few more potholes along the way.
My first look was at WordPress’s [...]
On the Road to Blog Heaven Part 2
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Hosting Companies
What are the requirements of a good hosting company? Let’s make a list:
Fast and always up. That’s a big “duh”.
Fast and responsive tech support. Having a site down is a serious matter.
Ease of admin. A good control panel and
Shell/SSH access. For non-unix heads, that’s similar (like a sparrow is [...]
On the Road to Blog Heaven Part 1
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I’ve always tried to stay on the trailing side of the bleeding edge of technology. Close enough to the edge to feel the whetrock occasionally but not out there getting chopped up.
So it’s been with web siting and blogging. Even though I’m an old hand at the net from way back before it [...]
The Great Snapping Turtle Adventure
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I’ve always been one of those people who just has to get into things. Especially as a kid. I’ve always been a critter guy too.
In about 1968 my parents started bringing my brother and me to Tellico on a regular basis to get us out of the city and for them to fish [...]
Cat Cam
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I’ve always been fascinated with putting telemetry on animals to see what they’re up to. Cat Cam, Dog Cam, etc. I just ran across this site. What particularly caught my attention was the quality of the Cat Cam photos. This is the first Cat Cam I’ve run across where the pictures provide [...]
Posted by neonjohn on June 3rd, 2007 under Pets | 2 Comments »
