Archive April 2008
How I Rick Rolled my Brother for the First Time
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve been in Iowa for a few days, visiting with my family. Can you believe my brother Adam had never been Rick Rolled? I tried not to bust out laughing, really I did! Who knew he’d like it? He began singing [...]
Are There Computer, Technology and Internet Ethics?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Are Ethics important… especially in relation to Technology. I had an email from Justin, asking questions about Ethics on the Internet. How would you define the computer Ethics in today’s digital world? Honesty and Transparency. Those are likely the terms you’ll [...]
Do You Protect Yourself from Identity Theft?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Identity theft is rampant these days. Your information can be taken faster than you can blink. However, there are several very easy ways to protect yourself. Are you careful enough? Do you know how to protect your identity? I received the [...]
What do you Need for a Wired Home Network?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Mattstech writes: “Thought I’d share a basic top 6 list on how to hardwire a home network. For power users like me, wireless just doesn’t provide the speed and reliability that I need. I ran some CAT5e over to my room [...]
Here’s how to Spring Clean – Geek Style!
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It’s that time of year again. It’s time for Nature to bloom, for allergies to go crazy, and for Spring cleaning to commence. How do you clean? Have you ever considered cleaning Geek style? I know the Windows need to be [...]
What’s the Geekiest Show on TV Today?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’m here to report to you the top five shows with Geeks in the program. We have agreed in the chat room on a list of shows you can watch to up your Geek quotient. Here they are, as voted on [...]
Accessing IRC Chat via a Web Browser: Mibbit
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Just to prove that all sorts of people come into our chat room, I’m going to leave the chat unmoderated… which can be quite dangerous at times. You’d be surprised. Even at 11:30 at night, we have several hundred people awake [...]
What Will you do with Your Tax Refund?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My Uncle Sam just called. The day this video was recorded was April 15th… Tax Day here in America. Let’s say after I paid in taxes I deserved a refund! What am I going to spend that money on? What are [...]
How do you Relieve Stress During Tax Season?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What do you do when you’re stressed out? More importantly, what do you do when you know you have to do something that will stress you out. Here are my recommendations for dealing with stress in these situations… such as doing [...]
Where Would you go in Brazil?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Victor is a community member who happens to be from the gorgeous country of Brazil. Brazil is a large tourist area, and there are just some places you shouldn’t visit on your trip. Here are Victor’s recommendations for places to stay [...]
How do you Keep up with all Your Comments?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed An old friend from Iowa recently emailed to ask me how I manage to keep up with all the comments I receive on a daily basis. I have comments on my blog, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and so on. He wondered [...]
Earth Day Green Tips – Green Coffee
More Earth Day Green Tips from Ideal Bite. Less than two days till Earth Day – Tuesday, April 22nd… Do you count on your coffee beans for more than just taste? The Bite We mean besides giving you the ability to function normally. Check your coffee label for the perfecta trifecta before you jumpstart your [...]
Twitter / Geek Meetup in Des Moines, Iowa?
I’m still planning to return to Des Moines in May, so that meetup is still “on” for those of you who are interested in gathering informally. But we can meetup in Des Moines even SOONER than that, given that my plans have shifted such that I’ll be traveling there tomorrow and staying through Wednesday (early) [...]
Mac Software Promo Bundle Discount
I had a chance to breeze through the apps being offered in this MacUpdate Promo, and… it’s well worth the price of admission (if only for Leap alone). Will likely grow to love these others even more over time, too: Hazel Automate File Management Tasks Add options to “Trash” folder Adds ‘App Sweep’ to clean [...]
The Ultimate Wine Geek Book / Dinner in Seattle
Gary Vaynerchuk from http://twitter.com/garyvee has extended an offer to you through me – so listen up if you love wines (and/or Gary himself). If you buy two of his new book on Amazon, and then send your receipt to pirillo@winelibrary.com he’ll be doing a drawing and pick 2 people to have dinner with us in [...]
