'geek stuff' Category

Finally! I advance to Day Two of WSOP Event #12.

June 7th, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized, geek stuff · 0 Comments

I 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

March 29th, 2008 · Posted in geek stuff, poker · 0 Comments

In 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

June 26th, 2007 · Posted in geek stuff · 0 Comments

Here 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”

September 28th, 2006 · Posted in geek stuff · 1 Comment

Ever 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

February 13th, 2006 · Posted in geek stuff, poker · 1 Comment

First 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…

January 7th, 2006 · Posted in geek stuff · 2 Comments

I 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 [...]