I know I’ll never reach my goal of being a full-time professional blogger if I don’t update, and I apologize to all of my readers for having not shared for a while. Here’s some of the reasons why I’ve been away, both on my blog and on Twitter: Work: I’m shaking up the dust a…
Friday! Winners Announced Later
Hey guys, just a quick update. First off, it’s Friday! Woo hoo! Just wanted to say I’ve got a meeting this morning, and then I’ll announce the contest winners a little later this afternoon (at least after 12:30pm EST). The mystery prize is AWESOME if I do say so myself. I’ll attempt to DM the…
School and Sick and Other Fun Real-Life Stuff
It seems I haven’t updated for a bit here, and I apologize. Just wanted to remind everyone that my contest ends here at Midnight on Thursday, April 30th, and I’ll be choosing a winner on Friday morning. One lucky winner is going to be getting $20 USD PayPal, while another gets a mystery prize! There’s…
The Pirate Bay Loses in Court, Pays Fine and Jailtime
Popular Bittorrent agrigating site ThePirateBay.org has been caught up in a legal battle over the status of their web site. Millions and millions of software, music, movies, TV shows, ebooks, and more have been downloaded through torrents listed on the site. Though the Pirate Bay hosts none of the copyrighted materials, Hollywood and Sweden’s officials…
Shrimp & Bacon Grits with Hushpuppies
Growing up, I never much liked grits. In fact, I still won’t outright decide to eat a bowl of grits. The idea actually grosses me out a little bit. Say what you will about me not being a true Southerner (I don’t talk like much of one anyway unless I’m trying to be charming), but…
Work Frustrations
So, on the bright side of things, the last round of password expirations is done. Those were some hellish three weeks, I’ll tell you what. My job decided that we needed to come into compliance with state regulations on password security. This is a good thing. They did this by force-expiring everyone’s passwords in batches,…
Got an Itch for HDTV? Scratch it With Charter
If you’re only recently aware that the 21st century has brought people into current technologies like HDTV, high-speed internet and internet-based phone service (VOIP, or voice-over-internet-protocol), you probably have been wondering what all the fuss is about. Perhaps you’ve just been confused, and not really been sure what you want, but you know that you…
Show Me Your Shamrocks #IZEAGreen
This morning I was leaving for work when I found a nifty green box with “IZEA” on one side and a shamrock on the other. Awesome! I didn’t have time to open it right that second, but it felt like a little mini-Christmas. I love getting packages by surprise! I had seen this same box…
Weekend Update: Ides of March
That’s right my fateful brethren, it’s March 15th, the Ides of March. I’ve successfully avoided this fated day by sleeping most of the way through it. I woke up today (the final time) around 2pm. I got up and got some microwavable breakfast and then tooled away at the computer the rest of the day.…
Crazy May Make Me or Kill Me
This morning I picked up on a Tweet from @tedmurphy via @benspark‘s reply Tweet, and based on his quick 140-character-or-less review decided to go see what article he was talking about. It turns out Technosailor.com had an article up (about 10 pages, it’s a lot longer for a blog post, but average for a decent…