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You gotta check out this video awareness test. It’s only about 60 seconds or so. If you can’t see the video above, try going to this link here.

Filed under: Geek Talk, Interesting on March 19th, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I took the test twice, so we’ll take the average and say I’m a mid-level nerd: I made George take the quiz also. His score: What are you?

Filed under: Geek Talk on February 4th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Want to know when your billion second birthday is (or was)? Want to say you’ve written a bit of Ruby code? Well, here’s your chance. Head over to this Interactive Ruby site and type this line (substituting your own birthday year, month, and day): Time.mktime(1980,8,13) + 1000000000 You will have to type it out. Copy […]

Filed under: Geek Talk, Interesting on December 17th, 2007 | 7 Comments »

I’m shaking the dust off of my coding brain cells and learning Ruby on Rails. I played with Ruby a few weeks ago, read my Rails book during Thanksgiving travels, and today created my first official Ruby on Rails application. I present to you my Hello World: You shouldn’t be too impressed because I copied […]

Filed under: Geek Talk on November 30th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I recently found out that the free anti-virus software we have been using for years is no longer going to be free. Ouch. As a result, I’m now on the hunt for a new solution. We have been using a hardware firewall and the free anti-virus software with occasional scans from an online virus scan. […]

Filed under: Geek Talk on November 4th, 2006 | 6 Comments »

Ran across this quote the other day on one of the geek sites I found myself on: “They say that when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic voices… But that’s nothing – When you play it forwards it installs Windows.”

Filed under: Geek Talk on July 30th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Microsoft is allowing users to download a test drive of Office 2007. (But of course you can’t keep it forever.) OpenOffice.org wants to get the word out that you can take their test drive AND keep the car. Forever. Just like always. Completely free. No strings attached. We’ve been trying OpenOffice for a few months […]

Filed under: Geek Talk on June 29th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Well, George informed me today that our former place of employment has now removed the “Remember PIN” option from their website for security reasons. Yours truly wrote the code that made that functionality work. Okay, so it only took 4 lines of code to make it work. And technically it wasn’t my code anymore since […]

Filed under: Geek Talk on June 26th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

In helping George with his current coding project I have had to write lots of several simple SQL queries. There’s a piece of the project that will eventually be available for the client to manage themselves. But in the meantime, it is only accessible through the database. So anytime they find a mistake in the […]

Filed under: Geek Talk on April 5th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

For my yo-yo buddy Devin (and anyone else interested in super cool yo-yo videos), Well, I guess it’s time I come out and admit that I’m a wannabe yo-yo geek. You may think it’s lame or you may recognize the sheer coolness of the yo and those who wield it. No matter where you stand […]

Filed under: Geek Talk on December 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comment »