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Tips for Using WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

Keith Dsouza has made a superb Wordpress plugin that ‘automatically’ upgrades your Wordpress blog software when they’ve released an update. Wordpress is constantly enhancing their product, and due to it’s global popularity they are forced to constantly enhance the security of the code base, both of which mean they update the code base 4-8 times [...]

Advertisement on Facebook

This image below is a screenshot of skyscrapper format ad which explains “Why Are Online Degrees are HOT?”
And I ask, why are online degrees so hot? And why is NexTag, the Comparison Shopping site displaying this ad?
And why did I see it on a Facebook page? Are they really this comfortable with letting advertisers saying [...]

Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

Yuko, a super duper designer at Dogster, Inc. sent this pie chart to me. It would be much funnier if it wasn’t actually true =O

It’s from here and was posted here where there is a lot more to look at, such as this.

O Hai! My LOLplate, Do U Lik It?

Molly and I wanted a license plate that was positive, friendly and hip. So glad all the other phrases we wanted were taken.

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Huge shout to violet.blue for the idea.

Plz, No Tell VCs dat da BS be EZ 4 Me

This year at SXSWi, I was challenged to compete in the infamous Battledecks, where I was challenged to pitch a company based upon investor slides I had never send before. I thought it was going to be ridiculous, but I never expected to have to pitch “Green Hedge Funds” using Amy Winehouse, Bacon and some [...]

Internet Famous

There’s a game on Facebook called PackRat. It’s like playing Mah Jong but the tiles are icons hidden around that you can also buy are steal from your friends. I’ve never played it. It’s appears to be quite popular.
Today a friend informed me that I’m part of a themed icon set for SXSW. There [...]

Not So Impressed with My Eye-Fi

I‘ll admit it, I was thrilled when I heard about the Eye-Fi, a wifi-enable SD memory card that can upload photo files straight to many photo websites. I’ve been frustrated recently that though my camera phone can upload photos to the web, my good camera still need a computer and internet connection to do so. [...]

Miro Rocks for Watching Internet TV and Videos

I‘m really enjoying the new launch of the Miro internet TV player. You can use Miro to find, organize and watch both syndicated and one-off internet-based videos and video programs.Their guide features 2,500 “channels” of internet video series, most being 1-5 minute episodic offerings, some of which are quite good. Miro also has a [...]

Not Impressed with Amazon Unbox / Tivo Download

Last week Molly and I “rented” our first movie from Amazon’s Unbox that connects to most networked Tivo.
We gave it an overall review of lame.
Yes we were able to “rent” a movie from our couch and have it get pushed to our TV, but it took 6 hours to download before it could even [...]

DRM-Free Music: Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

Since before Napster1.0 was closed down I verbally shared with anyone that would listen what the future of music sales should be. When I buy the license to own a song, that license should not be limited to the format I bought the song in. Whether LP, cassette, CD and then later digital-rights management [...]