Category Archives: Rants

Jay-Z, Apple, and SQL Go Together Like Crappy SEO

This just showed up as a comment awaiting moderation on my other blog: Thanks for sharing this post, I found this article while googling for some information on SQL, useful comments and great points made. The title of the blog post in question? Apple Inspired by Disney from 2004. The topic? How what looks like [...]

Dear Piano Spammer

Chances are, if you run a WordPress blog, you’ve seen this message, or one like it in your trackbacks or comments: GrandPiano… Hello I bookmarked this site. Thanks heaps for this!… if anyone else has anything, it would be much appreciated. Great website Super Pianoforte Links http://www.en.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!… So here’s the deal… Mr. Piano Douche [...]

Reading Backwards

Reading in the Western world is traditionally left-right, top-bottom. In case you have trouble with that concept, observe the image to the right. It works out pretty well… Books, newspapers, menus, pamphlets… so why mess with that? Well, because it’s the Internet, that’s why. Take the typical blog (like this one you’re reading right now, [...]

Things I’ve Learned From My Spam Filter

In no particular order: I can get my website listed on Google! I pay too much for software. My watch says a lot about me. I should eat more acai berries. Despite already having a BA, I need to get my degree online… in any field! I should stop paying so much for watches. My [...]

Like It or Not, Reggie, People Will Re-Sell Nintendo Games.

In a recent interview with Venture Beat, Regie Fils-Aime produced this nugget: We don’t believe used games are in the best interest of the consumer. We have products that consumers want to hold onto. [...] Used books have never taken off. You don’t see businesses selling used music CDs or used DVDs. I understand the [...]

There’s Gently Encouraging Sharing, and There’s Whoring

I ran across this article about iPhone 3G tips/tricks on Hongkiat. All-in-all, an okay compilation of random how-tos… But that’s not what this post is about. Now, I’m all for having social-network links in blog posts. Hell, you’ll notice them below posts on this site. I think these links should be there if you need [...]

Facebook Updating Home Page

Facebook has put up an announcement that they are updating their home page in the near future. For the most part, this looks like a decent redesign. However, two things that might get on my nerves: Stream The stream shows you all posts from your friends in real-time. This keeps you up to date on [...]

Words That Should Never Be Spoken… Ever

Listable has a list of words it is not okay to ever say. I was going to post my own over here at some point, but I never got around to it. But here are my favorites: Convo Za (as in pizza) Webinar Lifestream Funnest Natch Vaycay Staycation And I’d like to add to that [...]

Great Musicians/Bands/Artists of Which You May or May Not Have Heard

Awesome bands/artists/musicians you probably haven’t heard of. Not a complete list by any means, but these artists have been cropping up a lot in my iTunes library lately. Bassnectar (dubstep/glitch/hip hop/IDM) Burial (dubstep) DJ? Acucrack (electronic) Mike Doughty (of former Soul Coughing) (alternative/indie) edIT (glitch/hip hop) Glitch Mob (glitch/hip hop) Modeselektor (electronic) Ratatat (electronic/post-rock) Simian [...]

Clean Up Facebook (Duct Tape Pt. 2)

So yesterday, I gave you a way to put duct tape over the sidebar in Facebook. But suppose you don’t want to go full-out like that. To be honest, I really don’t either. It was just a fun thing to do and I kept it up over the weekend… but what I really want to [...]