http://www.mckayweb.net My life in digitial form Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:17:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. ... http://www.mckayweb.net/2008/09/04/im-a-streetview-newb/ 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, ... http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/12/06/tivo-hard-drive-replacement/ 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? http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/29/tech-olympics/ 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! http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/19/geekiest-shirt-ever/ 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' ... http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/13/big-printer/ 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 ... http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/13/very-touching-video/ 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 ... http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/11/wetstein-christmas-exchange-page/ 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) http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/11/youtube-video/ 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. ... http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/11/akismat-counter/ 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 http://www.mckayweb.net/2007/11/11/lightbox-test/