Category: Geekery
At work today, I wanted to see when I’d started a particular document and when I checked the “Properties,” this is what I saw: Somehow I managed to print this document a full month *before* I created it. I’m that good.
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but I seem to have won myself some free coffee! As you know, I heart free stuff, so when I saw that one can have their name entered into a draw for a free gift card by tweeting @BlenzCoffee, you know I was right on […]
While searching Flickr for a photo to go with a posting about “friends,” ((which I totally meant to finish writing before I went to the Island this weekend. Now that I’ve gone the Island and took lots of pics with my friends, I shant need a Flickr one after all. But I found this awesomeness, […]
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So, over on on Laura’s blog I saw a funky mosaic of her tweets as photos. It’s from a website called Portwiture, which takes the words you tweet the most, searches for said words in Flickr and makes a mosaic of said photos. And, of course, I just had to try it out for myself. […]
I’m typing this blog posting from my shiny new MacBook Pro! She’s shiny and beautiful and I am calling her Chloe. ((I know that I had named my office computer Chloe, but the name didn’t really stick, so I’m renaming the office computer “Edgar” and MBP shall be Chloe. They are my gadgets and I’ll […]
So, I totally wrote this on Thursday night and was completely sure that I posted it. Apparently not. Anyway, better late than never, right? Today was the first day of class. And for the first time in many, many years, I’m not teaching a brand new class! ((which just so happens to be #37 on […]
One of the great things about living in a new millennium is all the great dates we get to celebrate! In recent years ((I only started blogging in July 2005, so missed the fantastic blogging opportunities that were 1/1/1 through 5/5/5)) , we’ve seen 6/6/6, 7/7/7, 8/8/8 and even the incredible 12:34:56 7/8/9! And it […]
For the last few hockey seasons, I used Fusecal to turn my hockey team’s online schedule into items that go directly into my Palm Pilot calendar. It was very cool – my hockey schedule comes out only a few weeks as a time and by using Fusecal to subscribe to my schedule, I would get […]
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