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Gmail Invitations in Search of Friends

I have four available Gmail invitations.  I need to find friends to give them to - seems I only have two friends!  :( It’s pretty sad that I have more Gmail invitations than I have friends. First four people commenting to this post will receive an…

Urinal Video Games

You’re In Control (Urine Control): Those MIT guys are crazy!  A video game to play while you’re taking a bathroom break.  I told my friend Ken that if this thing ever takes off I will quit my job, drink beer all day, and become the best urinal video…

Death Star Home Theater

Courtesy of Dave Donaldson’s post, Death Star Theater : Pure jaw-dropping astonishment . This so blows away my plans for finishing my basement. It even has Han Solo in carbonite hanging up. Un-freaking-real. I am speachless.

Video Games Teach Life Lessons

Amanda Murphy  says, “ Everything I Know Today - I Learned From Playing Video Games “. I agree.  Umm, I mean “me, too“.  What I mean to say is that the same can be said for me.

Custom File Extensions for ASP.NET files in IIS

I’ve been working on a site where we’d like to rename the “.aspx” files to something else, like “.wxyz“.  The primary reason we want to do this is not to hide the fact that the application is built on Microsoft technology, but we don’t want to…

Outlook Adapter for BlogWave

Over the past few days I have been working on an Outlook Adapter for Addy Santo’s BlogWave .  He added the ability to create additional adapters in his newest release, 0.3 (Alpha).  The application already has adapters to allow getting data from…

Copyright Primer

“They” say you don’t have to register copyright for an item to own copyrights for that item, and technically you do not.  But, you cannot sue someone for copyright infringement unless you have registered for copyright for that item.  So basically you…

Mike Gunderloy's Developer Central Weekly Newsletter

If you aren’t a subscriber to Mike Gunderloy’s Developer Central weekly email newsletter then you should sign up to be one: http://lists.101com.com/nl/main.asp?NL=adt . Mike also publishes his Daily Grind among other things at his Larkware ( rss…

Gus Openshaw's Whale-killing Journal

If you’re not reading Gus Openshaw’s Whale-killing Journal , then do yourself a favor and do so. Kind of reminds me of the old cliff-hanger TV shows.  Brilliant use of the medium and working it into the storyline.  Great fiction (or is it?).

It's just the 'internet' Now?

I found this interesting item  via a Slashdot article .  For the most part, Wired  ( rss ) will no longer capitalize the “I“ in Internet, the “W“ in web (unless the full “World Wide Web“ is used), or the “N“ in net.  The Slashdot article asks…