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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I’m a Streetview Newb
Ok, so I haven’t posted in a long long time, and nobody will probably ever see this, but if you do:
If you saw google earth when it first came out and said, wow, that’s pretty cool, but what a toy, you need to check out the newest version. Maybe I’m just too sheltered. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Curtis
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
TiVo Hard Drive Replacement
My Hughes HDVR2 DirecTivo had been acting up on us lately. We’d turn the TV on and the TiVo would be locked up with just a black screen on a freezed frame from a show.
Most forums generally agreed that these symtoms were the signs of a dying hard drive, so I decided to order [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Geek Stuff by Curtis
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Tech Olympics
Good ol’ Uncle Gary back at Compunizzle sent me this photo and was wondering what I thought about creating some Tech Olympic games. What do you think?
1 Comment » - Posted in Friends, Misc by Curtis
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Geekiest shirt ever!
I think that if am asked, “Curtis, if you could only get one thing for Christmas, what would it be?” I think I’ll have to respond with, “this shirt:”
The shirt IS a wifi detector! Sweet action!
1 Comment » - Posted in Uncategorized by Curtis
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
BIG PRINTER!
Saw this on digg and figured it’d just be easier to post the pic and story myself since it’s likely digg could kill the original post. The picture below is to an actual HP printer. I got the picture off their website here. This blows my friggin’ mind! That thing on [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Geek Stuff by Curtis
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Very touching video
I have a young son and more importantly I have a heart. This video below is one of the most touching videos I have ever seen. It’s a video of a father who returned home from serving 7 months in Iraq and his 6 year old son found out when he showed up [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Misc, videos by Curtis
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Wetstein Christmas Exchange page
I did a lot more coding on the Wetstein Christmas exchange program today. Anybody on that side of the family, feel free to start posting your lists. It’s listed as a link on the right hand side of the page and here’s another
Wetstein App
I guess this could be called v2.0 after last [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Family News, Geek Stuff, Site News by Curtis
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
youtube video
I wanted to try inserting a youtube video in wordpress so here goes.
This vid is one of my current favorites:
(warning, f-word present)
No Comments » - Posted in Geek Stuff, videos by Curtis
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Akismat counter
Eric asked me this in my comments and as I just found out on his page too so I thought I’d post about it, why not.
If you’re running wordpress, or any CMS for that matter that supports comments you need some type of automated system to sort out spam comments. Everybody wants to have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Geek Stuff, Site News by Curtis
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
lightbox test
I’ve used lightbox before but it’s been a while and I haven’t done it editting wordpress themes before so here goes:
test