Archive for the ‘geek stuff’ Category
Forced to update my blog theme
Saturday, May 16, 2009 20:36 2 CommentsIt was one of those cascading things. I wanted to show my tweets on the blog and that created a problem because I had a very old theme that didn’t support all the cool new features of the new WordPress. Well, actually, I didn’t even have the cool new version of WordPress either. One thing [...]
Finally! I advance to Day Two of WSOP Event #12.
Saturday, June 7, 2008 6:09 No CommentsI have made it through to Day Two of the $1,500 limit poker event. I think somewhere in the area of 180 players remain and a bit less than half of those will get paid. I had a great level nine and a grueling level 10. I ended the day at 18,300 where average is [...]
Interesting trivia from my log files
Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:26 No CommentsIn the comments to this post, Nuke asked my opinion of a few of the regular players in the 10/20 and 15/30 games. He named three players and I named one additional player. Today, I was looking through my referral logs from Google and discovered an interesting fact. Two of the four player nicknames mentioned [...]
Spammers have become so complimentary
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 17:09 No CommentsHere is a sampling of the great things they have had to say about my blog lately:
“Your site is a refreshing change from the majority of sites I have visited. When I first started visiting web sites I was excited by the potential of the internet as a resource and was very disappointed initially. You [...]
The magical Google power of the word “jerk”
Thursday, September 28, 2006 13:32 1 CommentEver since my post entitled where I declared that Jamie Gold appeared to be a jerk, I’ve been innundated with Google hits. The most common combo is “Jamie Gold jerk”, but I’ve also got “Leyser jerk”, “Molina jerk”, “Jamie Gold is a jerk”, “Jamie Gold poker jerk” and sadly “shark jerk”. I don’t know if [...]
In praise of Akismet and more thoughts on my blow-up Sunday
Monday, February 13, 2006 11:05 1 CommentFirst of all, Akismet is the coolest thing ever. It is a comment spam eating plug-in for WordPress and it is absolutely phenominal. So far, not one spam has made it through to my blog and not one real comment has been flagged as spam. I think it has eaten 97 spam [...]
Computers can be a pain in the neck…
Saturday, January 7, 2006 5:57 2 CommentsI had pretty much everything working on the site, but there was one little thing that annoyed me. When you referred to my blog as www.nsidestrate.com/blog it wouldn’t load. You had to say www.nsidestrate.com/blog/index.php for some reason. Nobody else who uses WordPress has that issue, so I knew that I had something weird. My site [...]