Here’s a cool idea, shoot pictures through some old Blublocker sunglasses and you get Blublocker photography!  While I’ve shot through different lenses before I never thought of aiming through sunglasses, but it makes sense, it’s just another filter.  Judging by the shots he’s posted on flickr, it gives things an almost otherworldly Mars-like appearance.  Cool [...]

NOTE: at work I installed a web proxy to separate internal user traffic from external traffic hitting our production servers.  While I’m not part of the network team, they asked me to do this because of my prior experience and interest in such things.  The idea of this was to be a temporary fix until [...]

It’s time to start up a new feature, an outlet for my critical eye that I call things I don’t like, or TIDL for short. To kick things off I’ll start with mock turtlenecks. The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines them this way: mock turtleneck Function: noun Date: 1966  1 : a [...]

Have you ever found a batch of mp3s online on someone’s ‘Index of’ page?  I know you have (and if not, do a search for ‘google hacks’ in google to learn about the fun)  The issue always comes up that I find an album I want to grab, but the individual files are in a [...]

NOTE: As a St. Louis native, I was asked to comment on the sale of local St. Louis brewer Anheuser-Busch to European beverage conglomerate InBev. The following are my comments from the thread.

A couple of things here, AB has been a big STL employer for years sure, but just because they’re big doesn’t mean [...]

UPDATE: also, before you try this, make sure you have some good fonts installed, after a fresh install of Lenny at work, I needed to run this first: apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts
After a…slight slip up, I finally had the chance to install Linux from scratch on my laptop (Dell Vostro 1500) the way I’ve always [...]

If anything, that should be the message to all Internet surfers out there.  This graphic shows the danger, the percentage of users who have their browsers at their most secure, in regards to patches/updates being applied. Clearly people running IE aren’t going through the trouble of updating, while Firefox has updates built in that [...]

Wow, it sounds like this wasn’t thought through too well, apparently Apple requires you to activate your new iPhone at the store you buy it from. On a normal day this should work out alright, but not on today, with the rash of people snapping up the new model. “Problems with the iTunes [...]

Bored at work, well I’m not, but I did take a second to try this stupid thing, and it turns out it’s kind of interesting. Give it a shot, and remember, I never promised you all of my posts would be entertaining!
While sitting at your desk, raise your right foot off the [...]

It looks like the ultra conservative news site, OneNewsNow, brought to you by our friends over at the American Family Ass (remember them?), aren’t very hip with those new web technologies.  Oh sure, they block plenty of news that doesn’t meet their views so they can present the user with a tainted view of the [...]

I found this inspirational post on Lifehack once about losing 50 pounds in 3 months, and I’ve had it bookmarked ever since.  It seems to promote 10 positive steps to loose weight that are sensible and attainable.  Perhaps I’ll give this a go sometime soon, even though I only want to loose 15-20 pounds (hello?  [...]

Half the fun of the Internet (capital ‘I’ please) is discovering new things, but it’s rare that you see something new that really changes your perception of things. For me that happened when I came across the online bookstore Zoomii.com, which sells books via Amazon; think of it as a new front-end to the [...]

Put this in the ‘post it here so I won’t forget it’ section, here I show how to use cdrecord to burn an ISO from the commandline. When I download an ISO I hate having to open the cdburning program and get everything configured to burn, I’d rather shoot off a one liner, that’s [...]

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I [...]