Hi Folks,The 501st Legion CT Garrison will be marching in the New Haven St Patrick’s Day Parade. Come and check us out! This event will be televised, though I am uncertain as to which station it will be on.New Haven St Patrick’s Day ParadeDATE: 3/11/07 WHERE: South Frontage St, New Haven, CT. WHEN :Parade starts…
Month: March 2007
My first PC
Ms. Q recently reminded me of the very first PC I built from parts.This was back around 1990. The PC was not spectacular by the standards of that day but it was still a ‘good enough’ PC. I even brought that machine with me to Germany while I was in the Army.Prior to this PC…
Digg hits 1 meeeelion members
The social bookmarking… umm… social news… no, wait a minute… The anti-social bookmarking news site Digg has just reached 1 million members.Congratulations Kevin Rose.Oh, guess what, that’s 1 million registered users! As opposed to unregistered users, or banned users, or deleted users… Or is it? We may never know. It may be something as simple…
Technorati Favorites Contest
It is time for another contest!This time the prize is a full site review from me!I will be doing four full site reviews this month so you have four chances to win.Winners will be picked, one per weekend, from those who have added this blog to their Technorati favorites by following this link: Add HMTK.com…
Of hot chocolate and patents
I thought I might break in my new “Ramblings” category by posting a short rambling article.Shortly after arriving at work today I took a walk over to the local coffee and bagel shop. I do not often drink coffee as it works like Ex-Lax in my body! I do enjoy a nice hot beverage on…
Digg’s new ‘auto bury’ feature
It has recently come to my attention that the recent news of sites being unbanned from Digg may have been a red herring thrown at us to divert our attention from the full impact of a new Digg feature. I am talking about Digg’s new “auto bury” feature.New Auto-Bury FeatureYes indeed, it’s a new feature!Sites…
The effect of being buried on Digg
Last night a story on hmtk.com made the front page of Digg. This story was written by my friend Force Drainer and it is called 501st Legion Inducts Kevin Smith as “friend”.The story made it to the front page of Digg just a few minutes before midnight on Monday March 5th. Upon reaching the front…
Spotplex is off to a bumpy start
A few days ago I added the Spotplex tracking image into my sidebar and sat back to watch what would happen.On Saturday my blog was in the Top Ten listing of most heavily visited blogs and my articles were all being tracked. Then something went wrong.At some point between March 4th and March 5th all…
Wii Review: Excite Truck
One of my favorite games from the NES was Excitebike. This NES classic put you in the role of a motor-cross rider and even allowed for some customization of the course you rode on. Excite Truck is the great grandson of that old game.Developed by Monster Games, this Wii launch title is a great game….
What’s wrong with MyBlogLog?
Like many bloggers today I have been running the MyBlogLog widget in my sidebar. Have been running…Over the weekend I noticed that the widget had stopped appearing!I still have the code in my sidebar and I see that the site tracking is still working yet, it no longer shows up in my blog or any…
Know your templates
A few days ago I went to check on my Google Analytics data for the blog. I’ve been Dugg, Netscaped and Farked recently so I thought I might see just how much data accumulated from these traffic spikes. I was in for a shock!It was not the sort of shock you might expect… There was…
Say hello to our new addition
We have just added a new writer to the blog; Amazing Gaze.Amazing Gaze is a friend of mine and she will be writing articles for the blog under such far reaching categories as career consulting, parenting and general ramblings.I expect her first post to be up in a few days.