I Finally Joined Netflix

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

I am going to be camped out on my sofa for most of next week so I gave up my title of Last American Geek Without Netflix in order to have a ton of entertainment that won’t require moving from the couch.
After joining, the first 4 movies they suggested:
Howard the Duck.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Short [...]

Google Buzz : Randomly Connecting Strangers Since Last Week™

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I’m not sure why Google released “buzz” with a name far too similar to a similar product from Yahoo! without bothering to think it through a little better than they did. “Half Baked” is about the nicest way I can think of to describe it. Usually when Google releases a product that is far [...]

Voting Bookmarklets for The Gutter™ Group on Flickr

Friday, July 31st, 2009

There were blatantly stolen from whomever wrote the DMU2 bookmarklets I use. Use them to vote Keep or Ditch on photos in The Gutter™ on Flickr. Just drag them to a spot on your browser’s toolbar, visit an image in the pool, leave a remark, then click the appropriate link. The bookmarklet [...]

Nikon Camera Control Pro 2.5 Works on Windows 7

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I just installed Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 on an HP Mini 1000 running Windows 7 RC (installed via “run as administrator”) and it appeared to install but did not recognize my Nikon D200 when I plugged it in.
So I downloaded and installed Camera Control version 2.5 (again via “run as administrator”) and [...]

at&t USBConnect Mercury 3G Modem Works in Windows 7

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

at&t’s Mercury USB 3G Modem will not work on Windows 7 RC1 using the software that installs from the USB drive but after the installation, you can hit Windows Update and there will be 2 Sierra Wireless driver updates that will solve the problem. After installing those and rebooting, I was able to use [...]

Installing Windows 7 RC1 on HP Mini 1000 (1030NR)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

There are plenty of places that will tell you how to install Windows 7 on an HP Mini 1000 using a bootable USB or DVD drive but I didn’t have either and ran into a few problems because of this. Here is how I managed to get Windows 7 installed on my 16GB drive:
I [...]

Testing the WordPress iPhone App

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

I think there is a problem with the categories on my site. Not sure what is going on, I thought I had them working last night.
I had to upgrade my wordpress installation and it mangled my categories, lost their titles. I added them back but I guess there are still problems. When I click “categories” [...]

Stop This Xbox Live Video Marketplace Train Wreck, I Want To Get Off!

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

If you haven’t tried the new Xbox Live Video Marketplace, DON’T!

Testing BlogMailr

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I have no clue if this will work, but there are only 4 ways to find out.
Attempt #1…
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle

My XBox Live Gamertag

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

My XBox Live gamertag is sirshannon, of course…