Entries Categorized as 'technojunk'

PETA Made The Best [bloodiest] Turkey Game

Date November 18, 2008

Gruesomely delightful. Some of the highlights was the ripping the organs from the body, sawing the neck for giblet gravy and then the final bonus rounds (for the tofu lover in you).
My high score was 1101, beat it bitch.

Web Junk For Election08

Date November 4, 2008

Here is quick roundup of the goodness that is the intertubes in related to the web junk for spying on the election results from a computing machine:
The Best/Fun/What I Will Have Open

Five Thirty Eight
While most have dug the Real Clear Politics from the previous go around, Five Thirty Eight is more of the same but [...]

Google Analytics - orlandopumpers.com

Date October 31, 2008

Google Analytics - orlandopumpers.com, originally uploaded by funkeemunkeeland.
When checking my neglected Insulin Pumpers support group site’s analytics I found two types of pump searches hung around for more than a minute. The first a no brainer but I wonder what kept the second around. Maybe a search by a porn looking diabetic?

Google Doodle Petition for World Diabetes Day

Date October 24, 2008

[before you go on, my wife has had Type 1 diabetes for 9 years now, this is an incredible personal cause and hope you support it]
Google has niftily doodled a fun Google logo for celebrating causes and “days” throughout the year. World Diabetes Day is coming up, November 14th, and it would be [...]

IndieKarma Down for the Count

Date October 16, 2008

IndieKarma, the blog micropayments system, just sent out a note to its subscribers that it is closing shop and selling the wares.

At the end of October indiekarma will be shutting down.
We built a nice little application that we hopped would become a functioning micropayment solution, and we failed. We tried - we had [...]

Best of BlogOrlando3 - From My POV

Date September 29, 2008

This is my wrap up post for the BlogOrlando3 experience. I took notes for the morning and afternoon sessions [some links too] and this was the second year I hit the blog love joy fest [last year's notes].
Best Location
Room 301 had the comfiest chairs by far. The rest were classroom desk or ancient theater seats. [...]

BlogOrlando3 - Afternoon Sessions

Date September 28, 2008

Here are the BlogOrlando afternoon sessions:
Beyond Google

Leah Jones - http://www.edelman.com/ - http://www.slideshare.net/leahjones/search-for-roi
using search to monitor the conversation about your company/product
- find conversations that you have missed/did not know about/ another angle
Don’t stick with just google
- trend calednar from blogpuls
- icerocket use for measuring
- technorati is [like] today - s.technorati.com is the old good one
- boards [...]

BlogOrlando3 - Morning Sessions

Date September 27, 2008

BlogOrlando is back and I am at it for the second year. It is the 3rd year for BlogOrlando. Crowds are big and the speaker list is really diverse. Hard choices this year. I am going to miss something good this time around.
Here are the notes and pics from [...]

False Sense of Urgency as Management Technique - Dilbert

Date September 22, 2008

While I have not gone into much detail about work [enter fear of coworker or boss reading] I can say this just might possibly describe what my typical motivation just might be.

Why My Facebook/Myspace is Now Private

Date September 9, 2008

I have been embracing of the open everything and let the world find me new web approach. It was risky considering my job makes me a target. Not one for violence, theft, crime or anything truly terrifying. But more of a target for teenage buffoonery. As a middle school teacher I have been lucky thus [...]