I visit a lot of blogs. A lot. One thing that always gets me is the blogs that require me to jump hurdles just to leave a comment.Do these bloggers not want people to comment?Do they understand that blogging is all about communicating with your readers?GRRRrrrrrr. It just drives me mad!Just a little while ago…
Tag: News
Music Review: Naama Hillman
‘This article has been in the works for a number of weeks now. I wanted to make sure I did it up right before publishing it. I also want to thank charbarred from The Plugg for turning me on to this great musician. The fact that he is a guitarist on the album and is…
Five Blogs that I read
‘I just wanted to give a quick shout out to five of the blogs that I read often.Jane May Blogs – Jane May is part of the writing team over at Career Ramblings. She uses her blog to talk about things that do not fit on the Career Ramblings blog. She does not update daily…
The Spammers Do Try
I get a lot of spam comments here on HMTK. Most days I get between 600 and 1,200 spam comments. Since I ported the blog over to WordPress back in February I have gotten hit with 53,666 spam comments.Akismet grabs 99% of them and has only mislabeled one comment as spam. Well, I think it…
My favorite forums
When I’m not blogging I like to waste spend my time on a few forums. I’m going to list them in no particular order.Kenzer and Company Forums – Home of the Kenzer and Company games such as HackMaster and their wonderful magazine Knights of the Dinner Table. I used to admin for these guys but…
Weird Al Yankovic and Left Brain Games Team up to Stamp-Out Viruses!
Left Brain Games, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive game for personal computers featuring musical artist and cult hero Weird Al Yankovic and thousands of pesky computer viruses.Virus Alert 3D features Weird Al as the new Information Technology employee at Companytechco Inc., LLC. His job is to hunt down and…
I guess it’s time to ban circular saws
Dateline: La Habra CaliforniaA man used a circular saw to cut off his mother’s head and then turned it on himself and tried to do the same. He failed in trying to cut his own head off but he did kill himself in the proccess.Police responded to an early morning 911 call for a family…
Stormtroopers Will Invade Walmart This Saturday
>Hi Folks,Walmart of Bristol, CT will be hosting their very first “Star Wars Day” and members of the 501st Legion CT Garrison will be making a special appearance. You are invited!This in-store promotional event will also serve as an opportunity to generate funds for Ability Beyond Disability. There will be raffles held throughout the time…
What’s with all the error messages?
If you were visiting my site within the last hour or so you may have noticed a bunch of WordPress error messages and a general failure of the blog to work. This was caused because there were over 50,000 queries done on my database from my main WordPress db user account.I did not see a…
Obama understands the Internet
I was greatly surprised to find out the Senator Barack Obama recently sent a letter to the DNC asking that all presidential debates be licensed under a Creative Commons license. The complete text is below and my comments will follow.Chairman Howard DeanDemocratic National Committee430 S. Capitol St. SEWashington, DC 20003(202) 863-8000Dear Chairman Dean:I am writing…
Magazine Tag
Andy over at MathPoints just tagged me for a magazine meme.To be honest, I get hardly any magazines these days. There is simply too much stuff available on line for me to plunk my hard earned money on magazines. With that said, there are some I will occasionally purchase.Magazines for meKnights of the Dinner Table…
Please Help The Stormtroopers
Hi Folks,This is the last week for the general public to sponsor the stormtrooper’s TEAM MORGAN for the “Walk With Me’ event, which takes place on Sunday, May 6th, 2007 in Mystic, CT. Please help our team. We don’t want to meet our goal; we want to exceed it.Jim Pratt, a stormtrooper from The 501st…