Special Guest Stars

Do you ever watch television and in the credits you see Special Guest Star and then the person's name? Then after all they list all of the special guest stars they list the people that are Guest Starring. My question is, when you're an actor, when do you go from being …

Searchme

For the past several months I've noticed I've had a regular visitor to my site that would hit random pages multiple times throughout the day. Yes, it was a bot. The bot was indexing my site. The IP resolved to a company called Searchme. I went to their site but it …

WordPress 2.5 Widget Interface

I would like to state that who ever designed the widget interface in WordPress 2.5 is a complete moron. A retarded monkey could have done better. Gone are the days where you just drag and drop widgets. Have more than one sidebar or widgetized area? No problem, just …

Getting My Master's Degree

I received a flyer in my mailbox at school this morning for the University of Missouri's online Master's degree programs. One of the programs quickly grabbed my attention: Educational Technology. This is something I've really been interested in the past few years. …

St. Louis History: I Challenge You to a Duel!

I haven't made a history post in a while, so I thought I'd post another little known fact about St. Louis history.

On August 26, 1856 Benjamin Gratz Brown, a newspaper editor, future United States Senator, and future governor faced Thomas C. Reynolds, a United States …

What Will Happen to Flickr?

Ever since Microsoft began its attempt to takeover Yahoo I started thinking about the future of Flickr. That's really the only Yahoo service I use (and I pay for). Microsoft does not have a good history with web services. Yeah, at the beginning of the web everyone …

There's a Whole Lotta Sleepin' Goin' On

So, at around 4:30 this morning Missouri and Illinois experienced an earthquake that registered 5.2 on the Richter scale. Everyone on the news and at work this morning was talking about it. I slept through it. Didn't even wake me up slightly. I'm kinda bummed. …

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Here is a great article article from Scientific American. It's a shame when people throw away logic for fairy tales, myths, and fables. I have to wonder where this country is going. Seems each year a foaming at the mouth religious nut is attacking science and …

Feedburner Broken API

For a few weeks Feedburner's API has been broke. If I try to pull the statistics of the title and URL of my posts it comes back "NO TITLE." The statistics package I use, mint, has a Feedburner pepper and it has been showing NO TITLE for quite a while. Apparently this …

Domain Switching

I'm considering moving my blog over to pieceofshep.com. This was where my blog was originally set up long ago (maybe four years ago). The domain fits better with my blog's title obviously. The only thing I'm worried about is what's going to happen to all the search …

Wanted: More Real Estate

I love my MacBook. I love it more than my previous Compaq laptop. It's so much lighter, thinner, and well, OSX is much better than Windows. The reason I went with a MacBook and not a MacBook Pro was because I didn't want a laptop that was as large as my old one. I …

A Disappearing Community

One of the things that has bugged me over the past year or so with WordPress is that the community seems to be disappearing. Some of the developers have left to create other software and some have just left. It seems the passionate group of volunteers that helped …

Way Back Wednesday- The Message

Wednesday seems like a good day to post an old school hip hop track. Too many people forget hip hop's roots and it's time to educate them. Good music, useful information, what can you lose? This may even become a weekly feature, we shall see. I know I plan on doing …

Movie Boredom

I don't know what it is but I've been really bored with the movies I've been watching lately. Even independent movies, which have become my favorite movies over the past couple years, haven't kept my interest. Too much crap is coming out of Hollywood. I'll give you …

I'm 25

Well, I'm officially 25.

The Last Hurrah

Sunday is my last hurrah. I will be turning 25, the last good year. What I mean by this is this is the last year that something somewhat major happens. 16 you get your license, 18 you can vote, 21 you can drink. At 25 your car insurance drops and you can rent a car. …

Bush Censorship

Bush continues to be a shining light for democracy and freedom. Now he's censoring information about abortion on health websites. It never ceases to amaze me how religious this moron is and is so against abortion because it's wrong but has no problem killing thousands …

Memories

You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I don't remember being born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic.