Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek on November 29, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Console Gaming
TV
any sort of phone book
The Phone
Radio
Newspaper
School
CDs
Any Library
US Postal Service
Bank Tellers
Flea Markets
Classified Ads
Shopping Retail Stores
Scrapbooking
Feel free to contribute to the list.
Special Mad Props thanks to Adamweb for help with this post.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek on November 27, 2004 | Comments Off
Wired News ran a piece called Newspapers Should Really Worry which had some quite alarming information.
Imagine what higher-ups at the Post must have thought when focus-group participants declared they wouldn’t accept a Washington Post subscription even if it were free. The main reason (and I’m not making this up): They didn’t like the idea [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek, Meta, Weblogs on November 26, 2004 | Comments Off
Earlier this month I posted about the spam problem on my site and a lot of other blogs—mainstream and not so mainstream.
Here’s my tips for prevention so far:
mt-comments.cgi is no longer flagged as the comment script location in mt.cfg – search for CommentScript and change it to something else. Don’t forget to rename your [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek, Google on November 25, 2004 | 1 Comment »
In 1621, a few hundred Pilgrims and Native Americans sat down to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The feast lasted three days, and included fowl, venison, fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, and plums. There was no pumpkin pie, however. There was also an alarming lack of user-friendly webmail services.
Now, 383 years later, it’s once [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek, Meta on November 23, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Today I implemented something I saw on Mike Industries a while ago.
Basically, you can search this site by going to a URL that doesn’t exist.
Examples:
http://www.bofe.org/xhtml
http://www.bofe.org/uphill
http://www.bofe.org/spam
The URL doesn’t exist, so it hits my search page – if there’s only one result you’re redirected to the actual entry.
If there’s one than one result, you’ll be taken [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek on November 22, 2004 | Comments Off
The SFX project has been widely successful in ‘igniting the web’. The project’s goal is to get users to switch their web browser to Mozilla’s Firefox.
It started with a simple campaign – encourage webmasters around the world to link to the SFX site with a simple banner.
!http://www.spreadfirefox.com/community/images/affiliates/Buttons/120×60/trust.gif!
I can’t imagine what this did for [...]
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Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on November 21, 2004 | Comments Off
I just upgraded my site from MT 2.662 to MT 3.121.
Now I should probably upgrade my gallery script…
The Random Bofe Blog Logos are one of my favorite parts of the site.
A lot of the pictures are from Bend of The Rivers in Kuttawa, KY and the St. Louis Zoo in St. Louis, MO. They [...]
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Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on November 15, 2004 | Comments Off
there’s some more ‘legacy content’ on here from ‘the refuge’ blog that was started when i moved into my apartment summer 04.
we didn’t keep the blog up like we wanted to…
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Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on November 11, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Where does the time go?
Feels like yesterday I got to MSU and earlier this week I found out I have just three more semesters until I’m gone.
I’ve been a resident of Kentucky all of my life. For the first time ever I’m planning on moving out of the state for my first ‘real world’ [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek, Tablet PC on November 10, 2004 | Comments Off
Are Tablet PCs going to flop? Not really.
Are Tablet PCs going to be in every American household in 3 years? No.
I’ve been using a Tablet PC on a daily basis since late September. Before then, I had used one for about two weeks during the summer of 2004. The tablet I’m using is a [...]
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