Monthly Archives: May 2006

Slashdot is Getting a Refresh

Everyone’s favorite tech news website Slashdot, is going to be refreshing its website with a new design this coming Thursday. This is long overdo as Slashdot’s current design has remained the same since the dawn of the internet (alright, that’ a little exaggerated). The new design is focusing in on giving the site a modern [...]

Dieting the 9rules Way

This post doesn’t come easy. I’ve been a “fat kid” for the majority of my life. Every since my parents left eating up to me I’ve been over my normal weight. It was never out of hand until last year. I had surpassed the overweight category and entered the obese category for my height. Not [...]

Retail Tech Premium is Rediculous

I was out tonight at Circuit City and Best Buy looking for my third replacement LCD monitor (long story, I’ll tell you about it when it’s over), and I couldn’t help but notice the ridiculous markups on some of the technology items. For example, I was looking at an LG LCD monitor. Newegg sells that [...]

You’re on Media Temple

If you’re reading this, you’re on my new web host, Media Temple. Surpass Hosting just wasn’t cutting it for me. The recent twenty-four downtime, and an additional twenty-four hours to get everything functional was just too much. I couldn’t take it any longer, so I switched to Media Temple’s Shared Server Professional. I’m only signed [...]

Testing Office 2007 Beta 2

If you haven’t heard, Microsoft has released a public beta of Office 2007. Normally I wouldn’t download this kind of crap, but I figured it was about time to see what all the hubbub was about. So, two days ago I downloaded the Office 2007 beta 2, and bravely overwrote my existing Office 2003 installation. [...]