Archive for December, 2004
· December 26, 2004 at 2:36 pm · Odds & Ends
Well I had a very nice Christmas here and I hope all of you did as well. Not here, but in your own respected homes. Santa was pretty nice to me this year. Here is a list of some of my more tech friendly gifts I received.
All Thumbs - The Complete Collection
I love Steve Oedekerk. Ever since I saw, Kung-Pow he can really do no wrong with me. After I saw that great work of a film I looked around on Google for more information. Then I got introduced to the “Thumb” collection. This pack that I got for Christmas includes all the thumb movies Steve has done. Thumb Wars, The Blair Thumb, Bat Thumb, Thumbtanic, Frankenthumb, and The Godthumb are sure to be great additions to my already odd DVD library.
Mork & Mindy - The Complete First Season
I grew up watching this show on Nick at Night. Keep end mind, this was late the late 80’s to early 90’s period where there was no kid’s programming on at night. If I had to blame one thing for sparking the weirdness that later became much of my personality, this would be it. After being a devoted fan of the reruns of this show, I was actually telling people on the street that I was an alien. I watched a few episodes last night, and I have to say this show aged very well. It is still funny after all these years.
20Q
This thing is so freaking neat! It is a little ball that you play 20 questions with. So far it has been right 9 out of 10 games that I have played with it. How does it work? Heck if I know. It’s a nice distraction when I get too bored to write though.
Viewtiful Joe - PS2
I had heard the hype about this game for a long time. Since it was a Gamecube exclusive, there wasn’t much I could do. Now that it was out on PS2 though, I only have one thing to say. Believe the hype! This game is beautiful down to it’s core, and it’s fun to play too. Reminds me of a time where side scrolling was king.
Other gifts included a few pairs of pants and a nice shirt to lay around in. All and all it was a good Christmas this year, hope you had much of the same. Now the only thing left to do is to start surfing for post holiday sales!
· December 24, 2004 at 9:22 pm · Odds & Ends
Thanks to the holidays I will probably be a little light on posting here for a while. I do have some good news though for everybody to hear. I will have an article in the next issue of Ping! Zine. It is a nice and basic Web hosting basics article I think everybody can (and hopefully will) learn from. From your common Joe on the street to your Web hosting millionaire. Why am I so excited? Well this will be my first article to ever go to “print”. I’ve done hundreds for the Online world, but the last time I had something printed on ink and paper was my senior year in high school.
Subscription to Ping! Zine is totally free, so go check out their Web site and sign up to start getting issues. The magazine is basically aimed at people in or interested in the Web hosting field. Lots of good information and interesting content on every page. If you are looking at a way of learning more about the backend of the Web hosting world, Ping! Zine is the best resource out there today. I’ve gotten four issues so far, and every single one is worthy to be readable from front to back, over and over again. The issue that I am going to be in should be out in late January. This is a great way to start out the new year for yours truly. 2005, here I come!
· December 22, 2004 at 3:37 am · Odds & Ends
If it wasn’t for the folks over at PopCap Games, I would have nothing to do to kill the time of the day where there is nothing much to do but trim my toenails. Now instead of pulling out the old faithful toe nail clippers, I can play a few addictive and fun games. All of their games are free to play Online, which is always a good thing. If you find yourself becoming too addicted, then you could also purchase them for offline use as well. Most of them are cheap as well, so that is always a good thing. Which ones are the best? Well here is my own personal top five favorite PopCap games.
Read the rest of “Top Five PopCap Games” at Lockergnome!
· December 22, 2004 at 3:15 am · Odds & Ends
The next few days are going to be pretty hard on me, got too much to do and not enough time to do it all in. Then again, that is how the holiday season works, right? The next two days I’m going to be watching my two nephews and my niece. Keep in mind I have already watched them Monday and for a few hours today. I’m just about at the end of my sanity rope.
Then there is Christmas Eve, which should be a good day to catch up on sleep and watch a few Christmas movies on Cartoon Network. Hopefully before this time, I’ll have all my present wrapping done. Yeah, I haven’t gotten that done either. We just got our tree up here last week.
Christmas should be a rush, seeing as how my sister has to work. Hopefully we will get a few hours in between her jobs for some holiday fun and food. I’ve already told my Mother that I don’t care what happens on Christmas. As long as I get my peanut butter fudge, it will be a merry one for me at least.
So in between article editing, book writing, diaper changing, Christmas joy and peanut butter bliss I hope to get a few more side projects done. If not though, a new year is coming soon.. and new resolutions will be made to never get this far behind again.
· December 21, 2004 at 5:34 pm · Odds & Ends
After some rather heated E-mails I received after not giving the new Trillian 3 the usual raving review, I have been searching for a worthy alternative to this “does everything” program. What have I found? Nothing that I belive is worth my time. There are a few alternatives out there like Gaim, Miranda, Sim and EasyMessage. None of them really did everything I needed it to do though. So I have decided to take my instant messaging ways back to where I started, to Yahoo.
I think Yahoo gets a bum wrap sometimes, but honestly I like what they do. Over the past year they have even been more innovative in their new features, content and ideas. I like that. Another factor I had to weigh in is that the few people I still talk to on instant messengers anymore are all using Yahoo Messenger. I just don’t have much use for a Trillian-like program anymore. Plus, since I get my DSL connection from SBC Yahoo, that adds more integration for me as well. My start page is “My Yahoo”. My E-mail is all pushed through Yahoo Mail (even my MitchKeeler.com Mail).
There are no ads in Yahoo Messenger either; which by itself makes it an option over AIM and MSN. It is fully customizable! I can add or remove things fairly easily. There are skins, so I can change the colors or things of that nature if I just felt the need to. Another option I now love is the integration with Launchcast. I’ve been rocking out to Hillary Duff and Ashley Simpson holiday music all morning long! I can also get alerted to new mail and the current weather conditions. It is just the choice application for me.
The idea of adding avatars and buddy icons is cute, but it isn’t exactly pushing me one way or the other. I can also have one click access to my Yahoo address book too. Yahoo has some of the world’s best emotions. Who else would provide you with secret ones to surprise folks with as well? The IMVironments are cute, but I have them disabled. Not a big fan of things flashing and beeping at me when I’m trying to talk to somebody.
However though, the integration with Yahoo Games is fun to play around with. Well fun if you have any friends who want to play with you. I used to be the master of Yahoo Pool, now I don’t even know what to do with my stick. Audibles go in the same category as IMViroments, cute but not my cup of tea. Another feature that is not new, but is just as cool, is the ability to show my Online status via my blog. As you can see I have the icon on the blog’s left side. Feel free to come talk to me anytime!
In a nutshell, if you are a fan of Yahoo services, then this is the instant messaging client for you. If your choices are too diverse, and you don’t know which direction to go, then Trillian might be your choice application. Just remember that just because a program comes from a big company doesn’t always mean it is evil.
· December 19, 2004 at 7:52 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: basics, help, tips, Web Hosting, webhosts
Well, chapter two has been done for a while now. I just haven’t had the time to update my progress in a while. I just finished the rough draft of chapter three as well a few short minutes ago. So far things are going great. The only problem I have run into is that my first two chapters are a little longer than my third.
A few more important things are covered though, so hopefully it will not be too much of a problem in the long run. Keeping up with how much I have been writing, I could end up with around fifty pages when it is all said and done. Some might get cut out when editing comes around though. I’ll tackle that problem when I get to it though.
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