On Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 Nintendo visited The Carter Burden Center for the Aging in New York to show off video games that appeal to adults.What’s that, you’ve never seen your grandmother play video games? Ever wonder why that might be?Even though the Nintendo Wii is no where near as powerful as the Xbox360 or…
Adding a referrer specific redirect to your .htaccess file
Have you ever had one of those days when you receive so much traffic from a particular site that you need to redirect that traffic to a cached copy of your content? If you can gain access to your .htaccess file than you can implement this very quick bit of code<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (example.com)…
TNX – another way to sell text ads
Are you looking for an alternative to Text-Link-Ads? I know I am.I was recently contacted by a company that is breaking into the text link marketplace. They offer a service that I feel may just be superior to that which is offered by Text-Link-Ads. If you click on the flash banner above you will be…
The Digg Facelift – 1 week later
Back on September 19, 2007 the Digg blog posted an article by Kevin Rose in which he told the Digg community that some changes were coming. These changes were going to be in the area of Digg profiles.Later that same evening Digg went down for maintenance and when the site came back up more than…
Heroes is back!
It was a very long summer for me. All work and nothing worth watching on television. I even resorted to adding all sorts of strange videos to my NetFlix cue just to have something to watch.The long drought is now over and I can finally get back into my TV viewing pattern. Heroes may not…
The Wii goes NASCAR
No your eyes are not deceiving you that is indeed a NASCAR car with the Wii logo on it.NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver Greg Biffle and his No. 16 Wii Ford Fusion race in the Sept. 23, 2007, Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del. Biffle finished second in the race, just…
Truemors – Rumors, News, Gossip and more
Recently Guy Kawasaki revealed a new idea in social news, Truemors. A site designed to share rumors, news and gossip.Some on the web scoffed at this idea while others just scratched their heads. The idea of giving away gossip and rumors for free does not sound like the web 2.0 way to me. What possible…
New WordPress Upgrade (2.3) Does not play nice with Google Sitemaps
One of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet has to be WordPress. This easy to use (and free) software makes it very easy for the masses to create their own blog and post their thoughts all over the Internet.Though it may not look like it even HMTK dot com runs on WordPress.WordPress dot…
Another one bites the dust
My long time readers remember when I posted several months ago on how you can sell a blog for far more than it is worth. Well, it looks like someone was reading my article and decided to get out early.The blog I am talking about this time is called SiteFever dot com and was just…
Nintendo Announces the Wii Zapper
Nintendo has now officialy unveiled their Wii Zapper and yes, it is not much more than glorified Wii-remote and nunchuk holder. Lucky for us they will also be including a game with this plastic contraption; Link’s Crossbow Training!Link’s Crossbow TrainingFormat: WiiLaunch Date: 11/19/07ESRB: T (Teen): Fantasy ViolenceGame Type: ShootingAccessories: Wii Zapper included (requires Wii Remote…
Another split is coming
I just wanted to take a moment to let all of you know that another blog split is coming.Once the site is up and redirects are in place I will unveil it!
Saying Good Bye to AdSense
For the past three years or so I have been a happy AdSense publisher. For two of those three years I was a nickel and dime guy who never saw a check but did see a steadily increasing balance on his account. that all changed a little under a year ago when I started to…