April 2009

Friday Fun – People actually factually search for this stuff?

April 17, 2009

When I’m feeling lazy on a Friday, a sure-fire “fun” post is to share with you Good Old Rockers some of the hilarious search terms that lead people to this blog. Here’s the latest! evite harvest – This search term actually got someone to my post about Evite and spam, and this intrepid Googler felt [...]

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Thursday Tech Tip – In which I bid adieu to Google Chrome and once again embrace Firefox

April 16, 2009

I’ll happily admit it – I’m an early adopter, and I like playing with new toys. I got my first TiVo in 1999, for example. So when I heard that Google had their very own fancy-pants web browser, called Chrome, I downloaded and installed it as soon as the servers would let me. I used [...]

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Wednesday Web Wanderings for 4/15/2009 – Unicorn Edition Redux

April 15, 2009

Unicorns have been covered in the Web Wanderings before, but there can never EVER be to many unicorns. Especially since the tagline of this blog is “Unicorn Conspiracy Theories”, it’s really been far too long since we’ve featured unicorn-related content. Freakin’ Magical Unicorn Gum (Flickr)- No explanation for this one, but I’m not so sure [...]

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RSS Recommendation – Bleed Cubbie Blue

April 13, 2009

Blog Name: Bleed Cubbie Blue Tagline: A Chicago Cubs Fan Community Since February 9, 2005 URL: http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/ Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sportsblogs/bleedcubbieblue.xml Category: Sports In honor of the Cubs home opener, I’ve decided to feature my absolutely favorite Cubs blog, Bleed Cubbie Blue. BCB is the darling of Al Yellon, Chicago-area journalist and lifetime Cubs fan. Al [...]

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Thursday Tech Tip – The Email Management Project (Kickoff)

April 9, 2009

Ah email. Such a necessary part of our life, both work and personal…and such a large drain on our time and energy. According to some estimates, over 180 billion email messages are sent a day. Granted, most information leads us to believe that approximately 75% are spam and viruses, but that still leaves us with [...]

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I’m totally Stacked today

April 7, 2009

I’ve been threatening to write about cloud computing on this blog for a long time. But I haven’t gotten around to it. And it just figures that my first cloud-related blog post wouldn’t be here, but on another blog. Please check out my review of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by [...]

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RSS Recommendation – Jason Daniel Photography

April 6, 2009

Blog Name: Jason Daniel Photography Tagline: Journal of recent photos by Jason Daniel Wyckoff URL: http://jasondanielphotography.com/blog/ Feed URL: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/JasonDanielPhotography Category: Photoblog Photoblogging is a very popular category in the blog-o-verse, and since Good Old Rock loves some photography, this week I’ve decided to feature Jason Daniel Photography, the photoblog of my good friend Jason Wyckoff. [...]

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