Just a Vapor

A few days ago, I had the priviledge of speaking with Ron Shank via Skype. I have been a Skype user for some time. As a member of a few forums, I often chat with others on the same forums,…

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I’ve added a section in the links to the right that has all of my favorite Podcasts. With an hour drive each way to and from work every day, I have a lot of time to listen to the radio.…

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A friend of mine tipped be off about a cool little program called awstats. It reads your web server logs and translates them into some pretty cool graphs and stats. I have it sort of running right now, but not…

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I started my original blog back in October of 2003 because I was curious to see if I could install Movable Type on my Linux server myself, with my very limited knowledge of Linux, and nonexistent knowledge of web server…

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Yesterday I was thinking about a few Podcasts that I enjoy. I thought how cool it is that they don’t (yet) have ads on them. I realized that Podcasts, and the newer up-and-coming video equivalent are pretty cool, but will…

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The popup blocker in Firefox works really well, but doesn’t kill the popups that are launched with Flash. Here is a great tip on how to fix this little loophole in Firefox. Hat Tip: Digg

I’ve had a small graphic for twincitiesgasprices.com up on my blog almost since I started blogging. Now someone has put together a site that combines the same type of price tracking with Google maps, so you can see exactly where…

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Tech news has been buzzing this week with the release of iTunes 4.9, with podcasting support. I’ve had my iPod since last fall, when I got a free one from freeipods.com (once legit – now a scam), but I haven’t…

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Surfing the web on a Blackberry is tough.Posting to a blog on one is even tougher.

I had a little tech tip I wanted to share. I have an average Nokia cell phone, and use it mostly for talking, but occationally like to play a game on it to pass the time, especially when I’m waiting…

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I’ve been having some fun over my lunch hours for the past few weeks reading the email interactions posted at 419eater.com. It’s a site set up to scam Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Scammers. Most of them try to get photos…

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This morning I got an email from a reader that likes that I do My Utmost posts every day, and asked that I make entire posts available via RSS feeds, rather than just summaries. Entire posts are now available, thanks…

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I’m playing around with an RSS feed reader. I’m wondering if anyone knows how to add blogspot blogs to my reader. I can’t seem to find anything on how to do it. Most other blog software provides RSS links out…

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I joined the Minnesota Organization of Blogs today. It’s still VERY loose-nit, and there was no central blogroll at all. I decided to go to the effort of creating one. I don’t have any ambitions to be the keeper of…

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(I’ve bumped this post up to the top again to try to get rid of some more…..) Ok, I’ve got a buttload of these GMail invitations, which are still the only way to get a GMail account. If you’d like…

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