News: Web / Technology

Leave My Cellphone Alone!

22 May 2007 at 10:20am <From the Culture and Web / Technology Departments> I got my first cell phone when I was a freshman or sophomore in college - I can't remember now. Either way, many people would consider that "late". In 2007 we see eight-year-olds zipping by... read on »

The HD-DVD Crack: Get Over It

2 May 2007 at 11:30am <From the Stupidity and Web / Technology Departments> When I'm bored (which is becoming less and less frequent) at work, I turn to the internet for entertainment. If it's Monday, I'll check out PostSecret (new postcard secrets posted weekly). If I haven't already... read on »

// Comment Your Code!

7 Mar 2007 at 1:59pm <From the Stupidity and Web / Technology Departments> I appreciate the concern many of you have conveyed about my health. While it's true I've not posted in nearly a month, your wishes that I've died and been buried after a month-long court battle... read on »

Microsoft Ridiculed, Yet Again

24 Jan 2007 at 12:23pm <From the Current Events, Media and Web / Technology Departments> I read on CNN.com today that Microsoft has been, yet again, shunned by society (or, at least the web portion of society) for allegedly offering a technical blogger money to correct slanderous entries on Wikipedia.... read on »

Tom Delay's Unknown Acrostics

11 Dec 2006 at 9:34pm <From the Current Events and Web / Technology Departments> A few clever websurfers are quickly and secretly leaving their mark on Tom Delay's brand new website / blog. For those of you who don't know who Tom Delay is, or have heard the name... read on »

James Kim Technorati Search Results

8 Dec 2006 at 11:30am <From the Current Events and Web / Technology Departments> While I'm on the subject of James Kim... After submitting my previous post, I visited Technorati to ensure that my blog had been updated there. Technorati is just a collection of blogs that allows you... read on »

Google Maps Easter Eggs

6 Dec 2006 at 4:53pm <From the Travel and Web / Technology Departments> By now I think almost everyone in the world knows the power of Google. The company that brought you the most innovative form of page ranking is now a mainstay for millions of email accounts,... read on »

12 HTML Tags You May Not Know (Or May Have Forgotten)

1 Dec 2006 at 2:38pm <From the Web / Technology Departments> For those of you expecting cynicism, this is a rare non-cynical, technical post. You can click away now if you like. Sometimes when I get too caught up in designing and developing, I start going... read on »

Talk About Blowing Things Out of Proportion

29 Nov 2006 at 11:17am <From the Personal Life and Web / Technology Departments> Recently, I've taken a liking to popular user-driven sites. Specifically, I've been participating (both actively and passively) in news sites digg.com and reddit.com, which are both sites that allow registered users to submit stories, articles,... read on »

Vending Machine From the Future

28 Nov 2006 at 1:01pm <From the Food & Drinking, Web / Technology and Work Departments> Yesterday, several employees in my office were in an outrage. The reason was not due to budget cuts, salary decreases, a fluttering of pink slips, auditors, nor benefit reduction. No, yesterday people were pissed because... read on »

Gabbly

6 Oct 2006 at 9:42am <From the Web / Technology Departments> Yagid pointed me in the direction of yet another new, free, interesting utility that has recently hit the web: Gabbly. It allows you to add "gabbly.com/" in front of any URL to visit the URL... read on »

Sorry 'Bout the CAPTCHA

2 Oct 2006 at 12:14pm <From the Web / Technology Departments> I have unfortunately had to give in to something I'd been trying to avoid for a while now. You will now see the somewhat-popular image verification on the comments page. While this is kind of... read on »

coryarthus.com, version 2.0

28 Sep 2006 at 10:27pm <From the Personal Life and Web / Technology Departments> In case you haven't noticed, there's a slightly-new look to this website. The changes I've made here have been a long time coming, most due to requests or comments from you, my loyal readers. Some... read on »

Wikipedia Reference!

18 Sep 2006 at 9:11am <From the Web / Technology Departments> About once a month I Google my name, because I'm curious to see what horrors my friends, family and coworkers would come across, should they do the same. The results are usually very similar to... read on »

Light-Emitting Shirts?

9 Sep 2006 at 12:03am <From the Culture, Current Events and Web / Technology Departments> Philips' Light-Emitting Shirts Seriously? I don't get it. What's the idea? These shirts certainly aren't a fashion statement (yet). Although, I can see a time in the near future where we no longer pay to... read on »

Spam This!

8 Sep 2006 at 10:34am <From the Current Events, Legal / Justice / Politics and Web / Technology Departments> Dis spammer be goin' to jail. Finally, somebody's doing something about the millions of spam emails being sent every year. Jeremy Jaynes was just convicted under an anti-spamming law and sentenced to nine years in... read on »