From the archive

December 2005

122 posts

So what happens when your Blog Service goes down!

I can tell you what happens because it happened here earlier in the month and it was partially my fault. You simply panic. I can also tells you what it does to your momentum it slows it down. The 3-4 days I was having trouble caused my site hits to drop by nearly 20% the initial week after the recovery.

Using Google as a Proxy Server!

Did that headline cause your eyebrows to raise a little bit. Mine sure did and when you read the article on what has been cooked up your gonna have your eyebrows raised a little more. Pretty cool to say the least. [www.oreillynet.com]

Podcast Connect Site Moved!

Well I am not a 100% happy with the new look but the Podcast Connect site is no longer on Joomla and now on Movable Type. I did a lot of changes to the default templates and have it real close to where I want it to be. Need to add some secondary applications but it will work for now.

Hawaii Association of Podcasters

On Dec 1st a bunch of local podcasters hooked up and had dinner. The event has videocast, so check out the 5 minute video. [www.barefeetstudios.com]

Google Earth causing Foreign Government Agencies to be Nervous

Lets gets a couple of facts out of the way, first of all overhead pictures have been available from private companies for a long time, second anyone that had a credit card could get access to that data. So I am sure it makes some countries a bit nervous that this low resolution imagery can be seen by the public

Xbox Moder’s Face Prison Time

Having traveled all over the world I can say that I have been in plenty of stores that sell mod kits for game consoles. Not being a gamer I never really paid much attention but based on the amount of traffic these main street stores were doing I would say a lot of people on vacation come looking for mod

Firefox Blogging Tool to Rule All!

Got a heads up this morning on a awesome Firefox Blogging Extension. I pretty impressed, this is a beta release but wow nice job to the guys over at [Performancing.com]

The best thing about being a Blogger!

No mater what people will say in reviews on wikipedia or anywhere else the power of a Blog is that you can stand up and spell the facts out as you see them. Their are always two sides to a story in any dispute or even recollections to events and proceedings. It is one of the reasons I use a

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Geek News Central 2005-12-20

Tech News is a little slow this week and but I dug up enough tidbits to keep you dialed in. You all are cracking me up with the contest submissions very very funny.. To all my dedicated listeners please take time to fill out our end of year survey it is really important to me! Sponsor: Save Money with all

New York Times Podcasting The Do It Yourself Guide

The New York Times has released a list of the top 20 books that were blogged in 2005. My book made the list and came in at number 19, they got the subtitle wrong but pretty cool if you ask me. Thanks to all those that blogged about it. [NYT]

Replay to Sell Software Suite

Well I am sure many of you have realized by now that TiVo and Replay DVR recorders are nothing more than a computer with a hard-drive in them and a dual head TV video receiver. Those of you with DVR's love them, but what would you think of installing a TV card in your PC and then being able to

Google UPC lookup!

Google has a UPC lookup now if they would just go out and find the cheapest five prices for that UPC code that would really shake things up would it not. But those five cheapest sources would have to be reputable merchants unlike some of these fly by night camera outfits. [Google] BTW the link is to a 100 DVD

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