Everyone loves kittens. They are soft, cuddly and oh so cute. Some people have the strange idea that they will always be tiny balls of fur. Then one day, you come home and your kitten is gone. You look everywhere but you can’t find your cute little kitten. Instead you find a cat.This is Koko,…
Year: 2007
Why can’t we all just link to the source?
I was recently reading an article on Wired about blogs and linking called Parasitology of Blogging.The premise of the article was that the “A list” bloggers just aggregate what all the “Z list” bloggers are doing. This makes sense to me as a blog such as BoingBoing is nothing more than a big linkback site….
Blog conversion complete
I have now completed my blog conversion from the old Serendipty blog to the new WordPress blog.I setup a redirect page at the old location so any old links should still redirect to the new blog and not fail.This leads me to a blog contest!To celebrate the blog conversion I will be giving a copy…
Focusing on the social in social news and book marking
A recent post on the Blog Herald caught my eye. It deals with the idea of transparency in social news sites (i.e. Digg, reddit, Netscape, etc…).I have a few views on the subject and I would like to share them with you.1) The Wisdom of Crowds – This is the idea that Kevin Rose claimed…
Wii News: Everybody Votes Channel
If you are like me (and own a Wii) you woke up this morning to the blue light of an incoming message.What wish would you ask a genie to grant? Health or wealth?We’re happy to announce the surprise launch of the Everybody Votes Channel!With the Everybody Votes Channel, you can answer popular questions like the…
Wii Review: Wii Play
Today I purchased Wii Play and brought it home.For those who may not know, Wii Play was the launch title for the Wii in Europe and it was released in the USA on Feb 12, 2007.Wii Play has 9 mini-games. When you first play it you have to play the games in order as a…
A note on my permalinks
I’m still working on getting all of my links in order but, never fear! I have settled on a basis for my links going forward and it will be what you see on this post.As for older links… I’m going to preserve them along the [postID]-[postname].html format.So, if you want to link to an older…
Blast from the past: my cat stories
Now that I’ve settled on a permalink structure for the blog I’d like to show some of my new readers some posts I wrote a while back.These posts deal with my cats.A Tale of Many Cats – In which I introduce you to the cats I have recently owned.A Tale of Two Cats: Kiko and…
About the move…
It’s been a long time coming but I have now moved into my new WordPress blog.All of the old posts have not been completely moved over but, I did manage to find something that helped ease the transition from Serendipity to WordPress. I would like to use this post to thank Aaron Brazell for his…
Painting with cats
Well, today I took the day off from work to get a few things done around the house. For those who may not know, I have six cats. Yes, I said six! Two of those cats do not go outside. At any rate, I was planning to get some painting done today in one of…
Game Review: Il Principe
I opened up the box of Il Principe (Z-man Games, 2006 – Emanuele Ornella) for the first time and started reading the rules. As soon as I got to the phrase “Each player is the leader of an influential family in Italy during the Renaissance Age” I put the rules back in the box and…
The IT password story
This story was told to me by a friend I met while serving in the US Army. His name is Stephen Shields and I have no idea where he is now but if he reads this he should contact me.To give some background on the story I will tell you the following. Steve worked in…