My Toonlet talk at Barcamp Melbourne

I gave a 3 minute “Lightening Talk” on toonlet.com a couple weeks ago at the end of a LUV meeting. I wasn’t sure it was appropriate, because I think of these folks as really brilliant high-powered geek gurus, and toonlet is just a web app that really dumb people can use. It doesn’t even . . . → Read More: My Toonlet talk at Barcamp Melbourne

Inane comments are history

This blog is a thinking person’s blog. Yeah, I know, that really limits the readership, but so be it. Akismet is very good at getting the obvious spam comments. It’s even started flagging comments where the robot just picks a tag out of the blog’s tags and autocomments a slightly more targeted statement . . . → Read More: Inane comments are history

Ticket Mastery

Ticket Mastery

by taterprint

Any black humor about the business of ticket reselling resonates with me. I found this one today (this is not one of mine but I wish it was!) and it’s so true. There are so many sleazy backroom deals and stuff that goes on related to ticket sales that . . . → Read More: Ticket Mastery

Blogging Hiatus

For the next 8 days this dork will be taking a hiatus from blogging. I will answer your comments when the hiatus is over. . . . → Read More: Blogging Hiatus

Wow! Alien Communication Decoded

Used with permission
I’m hard at work on Zend Framework, so don’t have much original to say today, except that I did discover a new cartoon strip called AbstruseGoose.com. It is a la XKCD. The drawing is a little better, but that’s not saying much, as you know if you are familiar with XKCD. . . . → Read More: Wow! Alien Communication Decoded

No LUV in Tinytown

Google sucked away my LUV!  Sorry!

Google sucked away my LUV! Sorry!

With a heavy heart I disabled commentluv and Dofollow on Hot Dorkage. See the two post series below for why. Continue reading No LUV in Tinytown

StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks

Stumble Audio

If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks.   Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive.

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Wanna see what a dork looks like?

a comic strip!

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Dork on break

Escudo de Nuevo LeonEven dorks need a break some time, and this dork is taking off the month of July. I am going to visit all my old friends in Nuevo Leon that I haven’t seen for about 10 years and I plan to check email every other day or so and possibly upload pictures from the road if I can. Part of the time we will be hiking in the desert so I may be offline completely for a while.

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