Technology Archive

Thoughts on computers, blogs and social networks.

• Search Results Search Results

  I’m looking to revamp the search results pages — differing between tags, series and general search queries — but the WordPress Codex was no help, at least the search function… Image: WordPress Is this funny, or am I a geek?

• Tip of the Week

  I keep telling myself to keep everything in context. For example, what type of person reads a newspaper for tech advice? Probably not an internet savvy one, for sure, and most likely, an AOL dial-up subscriber. Nevertheless, this is the absolute worst tech advice I have ever seen, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle’s tech [...]

• Vimeo Waiting

  There is usually not much of a waiting line with Vimeo, except for Sunday nights… Image: Vimeo My guess is that people are trying to upload the movies they’ve made documenting their weekend activities. I told you I was smart.

• Untagged

  Step two in my massive Flickr reorganization underway… Image: Flickr This is actually more time-consuming than geotagging, because a set of photographs may have the same location, but not the same people, activities or other aspects in the individual photographs that would be nice to differentiate with tags, say, a view of the Golden Gate [...]

• Meeting A Movie Star

  I was hiking with my wife near the Haleakala Crater on Maui, carrying my newish digital HD camera, the Zodak Zi6, when a man and woman crossed our path along the trail. He stopped and turned. “Is that the new Kodak camera?” I told him it was. He asked me when I got it, and [...]

• Digital Regression

  Leave it to the democrats (or a strong democratic majority) to hold back technological progress. I received my two converter coupons months ago when I experimented with an antenna on my roof. The reception was poor, so now I don’t have any use for them. I keep telling myself though that all I really needed [...]

• Extensa

  Saying goodbye is never easy, even if it is to a worthless piece of junk. I’m recycling my first laptop — the sturdy Acer Extensa 367T (the ‘t’ stands for TFT screen). I got it during the first semester of my freshman year in Syracuse, and I split the cost with my parents. I used [...]

• Two For Tuesday

  As of last night, I had two of everything.. – DSL (through AT&T) and Comcast cable internet; – DirecTV and Comcast cable; and – AT&T home phone and Vonage. My head hurts.

• Geotagged

  Working one on my resolutions (the easiest one); finally less than 1000 remain to be geotagged… Image: Flickr

• Not Yet Resolved

  I am not one to make public my resolutions, but then again, I have a blog. I have not yet told my wife about these; she’ll learn soon enough. Also, these are my public resolutions, and not personal self-improvement ones… – Use Flickr more. A lot more. And start geotagging photos. It may be a [...]

• MacBook Wheel

  Just in time for the final MacWorld Expo keynote across the bay (via TechCrunch)… Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard It remains to be seen if the ‘Wheel’ will catch on in the business world where people use computers for actual work and not just dicking around.

• MacBook Presser

  I’ve been peppered with a lot of emails since my hinting and then confirming of my recent purchase of a MacBook. And longtime readers have known of my desire to return home for a long, long time. Instead of answering these emails individually, I have decided to host a press-conference on the subject. Here goes… [...]

• 111 Friends

  I do not have 111 friends. I don’t think I’ll ever have 111 friends, nor do I think that I’ll want to. With that being said, for one fleeting moment, I did have 111 friends. At least according to my Facebook account. I think if I added up all of the friends that I would [...]

• MacBook

  I’m back, and it feels good. Image: Insanely Great Tees

• In Transit

  One of these days I’m going to visit Shenzhen; it must be a magical place… Image: FedEx

• Flickr Pro

  It took me some time, but I finally fell in-love with Flickr. I post all my photos on the website, although they are set to private so that only family and friends can exclusively see them. It is all a part of me reducing my “web footprint.” What about the blog, you ask? Let’s just [...]

• Email

  I’ve been thinking about email a lot lately (I almost wrote “alot;” that would have been a disaster). What it means to me, how I interact with it, how does it fit in my future plans, what is next for this medium. In fact, I’ve been thinking about email too much. I’ve had a lot [...]

• Loose Ends

  I’ve taken on the task of cutting some loose ends of myself around the web. Over the years, I have sampled a lot of services, most of them junk. Plenty of them were not worth re-visiting, and despite a username/password, there is nothing really there. Elsewhere, however, I have personal information of photos or videos [...]

• Tumblr, The End

  My time on Tumblr lasted a little more than one year, and although it did have some good points, I knew my time would ultimately come to an end, sooner rather than later. I would like to tell myself that I gave a full-hearted attempt to enjoy the service, or even consider it useful, but [...]

• Vimeo Conclusion

  I changed my Vimeo profile to address the fact that I’m all but leaving (or giving up on) the service. Flickr is more in line with what I am looking for, and the feature-challenged Vimeo (and the developer team’s seeming inability to consistently improve their product — with actual results, not further promises, etc.) is [...]

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