Archive for the ‘Notes’ Category

Nintendo DS and Access Point Configuration

If you have a Nintendo DS\DS Lite\DSi and you are trying to connect to your access point – you may have a problem where access point shows up in the list, but you cannot connect to it. Look in the advanced settings for your access point – and look for an options labeled Basic Rate [...]

SEO By Hand With WordPress

So among the sites I have spawned (GenesisDriven.com, AndrewPeng.net, Over-Boost.net) I’ve been reading on how to do SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to make it faster and easiar for Google and other search engines to index my site and make it searchable. According to this page: Display a three-digit number. The URL for each article must contain [...]

You’re Gonna Love My Nuts

Who is this guy? Any where does he get all his energy from? I get the impression that he only has this kind of energy when he’s filming; he probably spends the rest of the day laying in a drunken stupor on the floor of the bar throwing bottles at people. But wait, no he [...]

Making coffee with the Aerobie AeroPress, Among Other Things

  The result of being unbelievely bored. Video taken with a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, heavily post proccessed with VirtualDub. Interesting story, I was looking for a camera replacement for my aging Quickcam Messenger. One night the whole family takes a trip out to do some shopping. I decide to go to the Circuit City [...]

Oops, Cheap Webhosting = Cheap Service

We had a short outage yesterday because Dreamhost, our webhost, had a short outage because they had a filer down (which keeps our files nice and fresh for serving!) – they initially promised 30 minutes or so of downtime, but that quickly ballooned to over 7 hours as they were chasing down the problem. Click [...]

Obama Promises Spending, Budget Increase in Science

Good news for us unemployed engineering majors, like me. Obama has put plans into motion to move major funding into science and research. Hopefully, some of the change he promised will start to show. Click here for the link Funding for the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency [...]

Eight Ways to Help Google News Better Crawl Your Site

I didn’t used to be a nut about SEO (Search Engine Optimizing) but now juggling multiple websites and reading into their publication has made me take another look to increase traffic. Here’s a shortie posted on the Google News Blog on what makes it easiest for their crawler to index your website, making it easy [...]