http://www.geek-online.com Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:13:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know it is vain but there have been requests. http://www.geek-online.com/2010/01/04/a-picture-of-me/ http://www.geek-online.com/2009/10/16/sword-of-the-stars/ I have been told I need to bling my current avatar. http://www.geek-online.com/2009/10/13/new-avatar/ I have come across a few gift cards and thought I would pass it along to you the readers.  Post a comment.  Make sure to put in your email in the form so I can send you the code.  I will send codes to the 1st, 5th, and 10th users ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/09/19/ddo-gift-cards/ So my web site went down right as I was getting home from PAX and it wasn't until now that it came back up.  Here is a link to my photo collections [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="144" caption="Alienware Agents. I tried taking a picture of one without the sunglasses and the image ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/09/11/pax09/ 40 years ago today the crew of Apollo 11 would be getting ready for their historic launch. Tomorrow will be the 40th anniversary of the successful launch of Apollo 11 with Monday being the anniversary of the actual landing. We have not had a lunar mission in the life time ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/07/15/apollo-11-the-loss-of-wonder-in-todays-society/ The “Broadband Internet Fairness Act” is a bill being prepared by Eric Massa, a congressman from New York that aims at turning the internet into a government regulated utility.  ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/06/22/house-bill-to-turn-the-internet-into-a-utility/ It looks like Twitter is jumping to a whole new level of social media.  Recently Iran held an election.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came out as a clear winner.  When the legitimacy of the election was called into question protests and riots ensued.  So how does the election of a middle ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/06/18/twitter-diplomacy/ One of the features requested the most on the iPhone is Cut and Paste.  I took 3 generations of the iPhone software before Apple finally added this simple feature.  ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/06/12/iphone-quick-tip-cut-and-paste/ So you want to capture the screen. On a PC it is super simple. You just press the Print Screen button how can you do it on the iPhone? It ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/06/09/iphone-quick-tip-screen-shot/ http://www.developingsecurity.com/weblog/2009/06/are-hackers-partially-schizophrenic.html http://www.geek-online.com/2009/06/09/are-hackers-partially-schizophrenic/ "Jeff, Lazer Night has been shut down.  The FBI busted him this morning."  The words rang empty in my head.  I knew they meant something important but I couldn't wrap my teenage brain around what.  Little did I know how much those simple words would shape my thoughts on information, ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/06/08/58/ There has been a lot of talk in the video games industry about Utah House bill 353.  There main complaint is that it will punish retailers for following the rating system.  That if will force retailers to drop the rating system altogether.  The Video Games Voting Network, a great organization ... http://www.geek-online.com/2009/03/03/utah-house-bill-353-why-i-support-it/ So I am updating the site. Nothing major just a complete revamp. Oh and I added iPhone support. http://www.geek-online.com/2009/02/02/newold-theme-iphone-support/ Well the experiment was a failure.  I should not say a failure because experiments do not fail, they sometimes don't support your hypothesis.  Physically I was able to maintain my schedule for a few days.  Unfortunately social  norms precluded me from getting adequate sleep.  People (work, friends, etc) kept calling ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/12/15/extra-day-conclusion/