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Calculating Geekaliciousness

I had trouble coming up with an answer because I usually pull up the calculator on my computer… who uses a real calculator these days for small calculations?

…My friend had turned on the TV in the classroom one day with his introducing the potential for mischief and confusing and startling the high school teacher.

Cracked and Defaced

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I can’t remember the last time I saw a “hacked” site, but this is quite sad that a Turkish cracker has actually taken pleasure in defacing this hotel’s site.

Free Flickr Pro and Wi-Fi with AT&T Broadband DSL

If you pay for AT&T / SBC / Yahoo (whatever the hell they’re calling it today) DSL Broadband, you have a free Pro subscription to Flickr (normally $24.95/yr). Among the benefits, you get unlimited storage and unlimited uploads which means you can archive your full high resolution photos (and let friends download those high [...]

Blackberry Email Personalities

Before I got the Crackberry, I did some extensive testing of smartphones particularly the iPhone and Blackberry. Unfortunately, I didn’t happen to catch that you couldn’t easily set your “From” email address header. This has become a problem because for work I send emails from various email aliases and mailing list names, not [...]

RIAA Violates Internet Standards

I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .

… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:

Aggregating Blogs with FeedWordPress

With multiple websites devoted to certain topics, I was looking for something like the croissanga plug-in that would automatically link to posts from other locations in one place.

… I found a great Wordpress plug-in called FeedWordPress that allows you to import other RSS feed items as posts into Wordpress. … However, I found that the DePo Clean theme was displaying “Comments Off” for that setting so I modified the index.php so that it would be more descriptive to visitors (43 is the category ID for my posts imported via FeedWordPress):

Macbook Lies About Quartz Extreme

I had this error before and convinced Final Cut Express that I really did have Quartz Extreme Support; System Preferences was reporting that I did not have Quartz Extreme support even though the Intel GMA 950 that comes with the Macbook supports it.

Last time, I think I replaced instances of “AGP” to “PCI” in FCE’s info.plist , but this time there was nothing of the sort to replace.

Invasion of Facebook Wall Spam

I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced):

what up Jen?
get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE]
i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell

Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another example [...]