Tech Support (if only)

By Colleen, on October 15th, 2010%

This XKCD was too good not to holler about. He just keeps crankin’ em out! And best of all, she’s a girl! . . . → Read More: Tech Support (if only)

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Captcha a la XKCD

By Colleen, on September 6th, 2009%

This XKCD comes at just the right time for me. I’m struggling with an issue with the Captcha in Yii Framework. In case you didn’t know, the captcha is that slightly distorted codeword that you type into a computer program to tell it you’re a human being. Bots supposedly can’t read them…. . . . → Read More: Captcha a la XKCD

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XKCD Nails Linux

By Colleen, on August 5th, 2009%

Penguins are not big fans of Flash, that’s for sure. But they are a little out of touch and sometimes need a reality check. This reminds me of the old days when you had to do a little dance to get Linux to show the floppy disk icon on the GUI desktop. . . . → Read More: XKCD Nails Linux

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XKCD Burma Shave

By Colleen, on October 20th, 2008%

@sil tweeted this; blog post kind of an extended retweet:

This one from XKCD resonates with me. I’ll get some original content up here soon I promise. But meanwhile, this one is good. And if you’re old enough to actually have seen *REAL* burma shave signs leave me a comment about where and . . . → Read More: XKCD Burma Shave

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How to increase your blog fan base

By Colleen, on September 3rd, 2008%

Quick fix eye-candy comic to placate you ….

from xkcd
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Ho hummmmmm…… It’s high time I did another post in this sleepy little blog that only eight really cool people read regularly. There are over six billion people in the world, and 1 billion of them have internet. But there aren’t that many really cool people in the world, unfortunately. The other six that aren’t subscribers yet don’t know about me and I don’t know about them. (The number six is a mathematical estimate, based on my statistical analysis of general surfing behaviour courtesy of google.) I have no business writing how to increase your fan base, being how mine is so small. Duh.
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I can do magic — Can you?

By Colleen, on August 19th, 2008%

another offering from our friends at xkcd.  Ha!  I wish I could say

“sudo clean your frakkin’ room!” to my offspring! “sudo” is as close to a magic spell as it gets. . . . → Read More: I can do magic — Can you?

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