Theme Issues In IE
2007-09-14 21:39:55
Grrr, well I discovered today that some of my blogs and pages are sliding WAAAAYYY down the page in IE as more comments are added. The good news is, that means that enough comments are being added to show this problem. Thanks everyone!!! The bad news… I have to fix this problem without using IE since I don’t use IE and I don’t like IE. Fortunately, my roommate has a Winblows computer that I can use to fix the problem. This just in, I don’t like Windows… I don’t like most of their problems, errr products. Since majority of my users do run IE I’ll get on this problem and I apologize for any difficulties viewing the site!!!
Technorati Tags: IE, Blog, Nebula Theme
, Internet Explorer
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Google And The X-Prize
2007-09-14 00:52:28
I have always liked Google
, they make a superior product in most cases that I feel actually serves the world in a positive manner. They are one of the companies that I think are out there to make money, but in an ethical way. With that being said, they have gone off and announced that they will be sponsoring the $30 million dollar race to the moon associate with the X-Prize. For those of you not familiar with the X-Prize you should definitely check it out, it will no doubt change our planet for the better!!!
Technorati Tags: X-Prize, Google, moon, race to the moon, space
Solaris == Windows???
2007-09-12 23:58:56
Ummm… yeah… Dont really know what to say about this other than the fact that it would seem that Sun has pretty much starting trudging through the sludge for money. SPARC has gone by the way side… Solaris
has no place these days (other than existing systems). But this… hmmm. I would have thought they might have considered Linux or something along these lines. Oh well… I guess they always have Java.Technorati Tags: sun, windows, microsoft, windows, solaris
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Blog Promotion Updates
2007-09-12 22:23:13
For those of you who may have missed it I have added a few more blog promotion entries to the Blog Promotion page. My secret goal is to one day amass a huge very useful list there… I’ve got a ways to go but what is there is very useful. Check it out, let me know of any services you may use or know of that I have not added!!!
Technorati Tags: blog, blog promotion, blog popularity, blog directory, blog listing
Many iPhone owners relish being first
2007-09-07 12:33:23
The articles are out, you can read them anywhere, iPhone
users complaining that the price went down after a few weeks. Here in Silicon Valley, where geek and cool can mean the same thing, most iPhone early buyers paid to be the first, and most “expensed” the $600, anyway. I think they got what they paid for.Technorati Tags: iPhone, Apple, Silicon Valley
WordPress.com Stats Plugin Review
2007-09-07 00:38:13
Looking for a good way to keep track of your blog statistics??? Maybe WordPress.com Stats
is the ticket for you. WordPress.com Stats gives you the ability to logs the stats of your WordPress Blog without the burden of bogging down your server with software… since it is also hosted and maintained via the WordPress.com server. Apparently there are large number of WordPress users that really like this service… personally I did not like it all. I much prefer just using Google Analytics. With that being said, here is some info on the plugin. (more…)
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Microsoft Zune Phone Revisited
2007-09-06 23:20:35
No seriously… for those of you who saw my recent article regarding what a Zune
Phone might look like… well, it looks like Microsoft
may actually be considering such an item. Check any tech news site or Google the Zune Phone and you can find some info on what I am talking about. I have to wonder just how far off the phone will be from what we just recently saw in the video I posted. Microsoft’s Zune music player originally aimed to put a dent in the iPod market (whether they said it did or not) but by most accounts was a rather dismal attempt. Maybe Microsoft should stick to making awesome gaming consoles, spectacular Word Processors and then focus on making their OS products alot less buggy and alot more secure. This is the part where I lose some Windows/Vista fans as readers… but in reality we all know its true. In the event that you did not know it was true… buy a Mac!!! It wont take long before you realize that the things you have come to accept as
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25 Years of Hacking
2007-09-05 20:50:03
Well, its about time to celebrate the 25th year of hacking. It all started out innocently enough… a 9th grader playing a joke on some friends. Look at the crap it has turned into. On the plus side it has spawned a multi-billion dollar industry!!! Go figure that the first hack or virus or whatever you’d like to refer to it as would have occurred on an Apple. Of course, his boot sector virus cited poetry… a far cry from the stuff thats out there today. Rather than repeating an article that I read earlier today, go check it out and marvel at the fact that another young hacker turned into a multi-millionaire, if not billionaire.
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, Rick Skrenta, Hack, Virus
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Lightning-Alley Statistics
2007-09-05 00:35:26
One of the coolest things about running this website for me is checking out who visits the site and from where. Well in the last two months Lightning-Alley has been visited over 800 times by over over 500 unique visitors!!! Those visitors have covered 54 countries!!! While I understand that this isnt a big deal for most webmasters I have to say that I am very pleased with the progress. The image below displays all of the countries that have visited over the past two months this is definitely one of the neatest features of Google Analytics!!!
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, Google Statistics
Mac Software: Cyber Duck
2007-09-03 19:25:52
Well, I’m back from my parents house with some more Mac Software
. This time around, lets take a look at a piece of software aimed at tackling File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Sure, you can handle everything you need to at the command line… but why??? Cyber
Duck offers a Graphical User Interface GUI approach to all of your FTP problems. This program is an absolute must for ALL webmasters (I use this term loosely, very loosely) running a Mac. FTP and SFTP just became as easy as click and drag!!!
Technorati Tags: Cyber Duck, FTP, SFTP, GUI, Mac, Software, Mac Software, webpage
Halo 3
2007-09-27 08:20:12
Well, day before yesterday I started playing Halo 3 with my buddies online. I must say that it is an amazing game, I was very much looking forward to playing it last night when I got home from work. As it turns out… not so much since Cox had other ideas. My internet messed up all night, so I tried to call Cox… busy signal. Go figure… I tried to play a couple of games with my 23.4 kBs connection, which resulted in nothing more than me messing up my stats… I couldn’t even work on my new web project thanks to that connection!!! I am becoming les and les pleased with Cox seeing as how they have split my internet connection with the neighbors at one point… yeah I know, their conectivity goes away and they ust turn the phones off and they are overcharging me what they quoted me for phone service. Oh well, such is life. Anyways, Halo and web stuff tonight… please!!!!
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Better is not always Bigger?
2007-09-26 15:13:12
Trying to say that bigger is not always
better, or showing an astounding inability to add (three is greater than four?) AMD tops (bottoms?) Intel with a triple-core processor….
OK, actually the intent seems to be provide different pricing points, so you can buy the core processor you need/can afford.
AMD adds tri-core Phenom to desktop lineup
Stealing a bit of rival Intel’s thunder on the opening day of its developer forum, AMD announces what it is calling a “multi-core triple threat”—triple-core Phenom processor additions to its desktop lineup. With the move, AMD aims to provide a wider selection of multi-core solutions and believes its triple-core processors may stimulate broader multi-core adoption through a product family that scales to more points-of-entry for the customer.
MMMM… hotdogs, garlic and beer!!!
2007-09-23 17:17:34
OK, this post has nothing to do with anything tech oriented&hellip
; at all. Last night we attended the Tucson Beer Festival, which was awesome, especially since Erica was able to get us free tickets. Today, football, hot dogs and roasted garlic. Eric actually gave me the idea for the roasted garlic… which I have to thank him for!!! I didn’t have much beer, but what I had was great. So the beer and the garlic are both actually healthy. The hot dogs on the other hand… big ole ball park franks on white buns, not so good for me but oh so good tasting. Again, probably a pointless blog for most of you, but the food and good times were just to good to not report!!!
Technorati Tags: beer, hot dogs, roasted garlic, garlic, Tucson
Tiger I Am Not…
2007-09-22 13:37:31
Yesterday, my buddy Eric and I went out to the golf course and shot a round of golf. We had a lot of fun and it was a beautiful morning. I ended up shooting a 92 and he ended up shooting a 99. We both left at least 10 shots on the course from rustiness&hellip
; apparently that happens when you only play twice a year. On the plus side I did hit my driver well and I putted decently, though I did miss some easy two putts. My drives averaged over 300 yards… and somehow I managed to hit a 390 yard drive on a 560 yard par 5… Eric was there to verify, I could hardly believe it myself. Hopefully we’ll be able to get back out there within the next couple weeks. I do plan to start heading to the range at least once to twice a week from this point on, I am looking to knock three strokes off my game the next time out and get back in the 80s. Of course thats the first step to qualifying for a PGA event…
Technorati Tags: Golf, Tiger, Tiger Woods, PGA
The Tsar Bomba
2007-09-21 23:28:56
Well, as some of you may know… I have a fascination with weapon technology. From time to time expect to see an article on new and old weapon technology here on Lightning-Alley. With that being said, what better place to start than the Tsar Bomba
??? For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, maybe you might recognize it as Big Ivan. In the event that you still haven’t heard of it, heres the low down. The Tsar Bomba was essentially Russia’s answers to the US guided missiles and the like. While we may have beat Ivan to the punch, they quickly ran around us and surpassed us in size and grandeur.The Tsar Bomba was, and still is, like nothing ever seen before. At 50 megtaons, to put that in perspective that is over 4000 times more powerful than “The Bomb” that we dropped on Hiroshima. In fact, the Hiroshima bomb isn’t even a blip on the radar in comparison to The Tsar Bomba. To this day, and hopefully from this point on, nothing of the like has
More Free Stuff? Yeah!
2007-09-21 10:20:57
Another good piece From the editor at Information Weekly, this one compares IBM’s and OpenOffice.org’s ideas of just what you have to do to get something for nothing.
Download Duel: IBM Lotus Symphony Vs. OpenOffice
When I read about Lotus Symphony, IBM’s spanking new free office suite, I was intrigued and decided to try it out during my lunch hour. Unfortunately, it took most of that hour just to get through the registration process.Here’s what to expect if you want to try Symphony:
Go to IBM’s download page. Click on the “Free Download” button.
Choose which OS you use (Linux or Windows). Click on Continue.
Sign in with your IBM ID and password. Don’t have one? What a surprise! Click on “register now.”
Type in an IBM ID, password, security question and answer, e-mail address, and country/region of residence. Click on Continue.
Fill in the fields indicated with an asterisk, which includes your first name, last name, dayti
Free Music: What does it REALLY cost?
2007-09-20 11:03:53
In an e-mail from Information Week Daily, I found out a little about the “free” Spiral Frog music downloads. First, and most damning, WINDOWS ONLY! >>Mac owners, go away! >> Use your iPod? Not here, by God!
Next, you can’t burn a CD! Third, you have to re-register every month, telling them information about your self. Well, none for me, thanks! (article follows)
SpiralFrog Offers Free Music
— For A Price
The iTunes model of moving individual music and videos files to users in return for small fees has become hard to beat. There’s a new contender, however: SpiralFrog, which offers media downloads free of charge — but with several strings attached. According to press accounts, SpiralFrog’s intended audience are those 20-somethings who have the inclination to spend a lot of time on the site researching music — and, in the meantime, viewing advertising. In return, it offers what looks like a fairly w
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Interview A Blogger: roiratjournal.com
2007-09-19 22:44:58
Well, as I mentioned yesterday, Lightning-Alley will officially start its Interview a Blogger
series today!!! With that, I bring you one of my favorite authors, Glenn Studevant of Roi Rat Journal. If you’ve yet to visit his blog, I would recommend doing so ASAP… its filled with witty banter and wacky adventures as only Glenn could tell it!!! Enough from me, on to the interview… (more…)
Interview A Blogger
2007-09-19 00:11:33
Well, this is something that I have been wanting to do for a while. There are a number of blogs that I really enjoy, some of them I comment on and some of them I just frequent. With that in mind, I have always wanted to know what drives the bloggers that to do what they do, where they come from, how they got where they are etc. From this point on I plan to try and interview a blogger every so often. I’ll be emailing the ones who accept the invitation an email with a set of questions. I will post the questions and the responses, verbatim, on the site. Hopefully we all can learn something about the bloggers!!! As a matter of fact, I should have the first one up tomorrow from Glenn over at Roi Rat Journal.
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Mycrosoft Internet Ex-plorer 8
2007-09-15 23:17:30
Haha, I stole this right out of the links on Davids Pic Blog… hilarious. The timing is perfect too seeing as how I am especially displeased with Internet
Explorer at the moment. For those of you who caught the Microsoft Zune Phone post a while back this is right up the same alley. Check out the teaser page for Mycrosoft Internet Ex-plorer 8!!! In my opinion there are some vast improvements over IE 6 and IE 7.
Technorati Tags: IE 6, IE 7, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer
What If?
2007-09-28 16:06:08
I know RBChallenger has been perusing website rankings lately and how they are affected by different types of codes and ads and click-throughs.
I have a modest proposal: We should all just pick the most popular searches/words from Google, Yahoo, or U-Tube and just go add them to our domain somewhere. So, rather than www.westpacificpizza.com, I could use www.westpacificpizzaGOOGLE.com (fake website, purely to illustrate my point)or RBChallenger could use replace www.lightning-alley.com with www.lightning-alleyBritneySpears.com (fake website, more illustration)! What do you think? OK, it’s almost certainly illegal and definitely unethical, so don’t try it without advice from your lawyer (and you have to be kind of a scumbag!)
GwanSho (tongue-firmly-in-cheek)
2007-10-11 18:51:06
Could you eat this? Hunt for natural fertilizer leads to human urine
Oct. 7, 2007
Courtesy American Chemical Society
and World Science staff
Researchers are reporting successful use of an unlikely crop fertilizer that’s inexpensive, abundant, and undeniably organic: human urine.
Despite the “yuk!” factor, healthy people’s urine is rich in nitrogen and other nutrients—and virtually sterile, the scientists said. Urine has been used as fertilizer since ancient times and its use, they found, results in good, fast-growing cabbage.
“Human urine could be used as a fertilizer for cabbage and does not pose any significant hygienic threats or leave any distinctive flavor,” they wrote in a paper detailing the findings.
(continues)
(I was unable to verify whether R Kelly was consulted on this subject)
Super Secret Project…
2007-10-10 22:38:23
Well not so much, since come of you already know about it. To make a long story short, one of the main reasons for the recent lack of posts would be due to my working on a project that I have been wanting to pursue for a some time now&hellip
; and of course the fact that I took a vacation to the Motor City, but thats for another blog. For now I’ll just hint and say that the project makes use of open source software and it has to do with daily life, advertising etc. Pretty vague I know, but I am pretty excited about it. Once I have enough content to hold a little bit of interest I’ll give some more info. Thanks for the patience and a big thanks to Gwansho for holding down the fort with his article selection!!!
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Search Engine Optimization
2007-10-04 10:25:42
Unlike my previous facetious post, real story about getting your website rank higher…….
(from the fine folks at InformationWeek Daily)
Yield Software: Google Optimization
As A Service
Search
engine optimization, the art of getting your Web site to rank higher on Google and other search engines, involves constant monitoring and tuning. A new service from startup Yield Software promises to automate that work.Yield’s SEO-as-a-service offering, in early testing by a few companies, is about to go into beta testing. Look for a formal announcement any day. When I talked to CEO Matt Malden a few weeks ago, he indicated the company was hoping to make its service generally available before year’s end. Given the timing of the beta, however, I wouldn’t be surprised if GA slips into the first quarter of 2008.Yield’s service is really three services in one:
First, there’s the search engine optimization, where Yield scans your Web pages for keywords ass
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Dodge Challenger Countdown
2007-10-18 17:25:52
The Dodge
Challenger
Countdown
to launch website, counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds before the official production launch on February 6, 2008 at 11:00 am CST. I may have to trade in the Charger!!!
Transformers at the IMAX
2007-10-23 23:53:53
My friends and I went and watched The Transformers
on the IMAX, it just seemed to be one of those movies that I wold regret not seeing on a huge screen with awesome sound. Needless to say, it met all of my expectations and I am extremely happy that I went and saw it… again. Now, I have discovered that it is out on HD-DVD… I cant really thing of a better excuse to go off and buy the HD-DVD upgrade for my XBOX 360.. hehe.
Technorati Tags: HD, HDDVD, XBOX360, Transformers, IMAX, movies
Google Maps latitude & longitude
2007-11-07 21:05:15
As you know, the project that I am working on, which releases March 17, 2008, makes use of DokuWiki. I have known for a bit that I need to find a way to embed Google
Maps into individual pages. Well I found it, the only problem is that the plugin requires latitude and longitudes… which Google Maps
does not give you… hmm, thats a problem!!! After a little searching around I discovered the solution to the problem. As it turns out, Google Maps center on the address you search, making the latitude and longitude the center of the map. Thats all fine and good but it still is not displayed anywhere!!! There a solution to that problem as well, once you get your map displayed simply enter “javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));” into the browser URL field and press enter. You will be greeted by a little dialog window displaying two values in parenthesis. The first of these values is the longitude and the second the latitude. Now, why isn&rs
DokuWiki Project
2007-11-06 22:11:00
Well, for those of you who may be wondering where I’ve been… I have been working on a project that I plan to release on March 17, 2008. On that note, anyone who wants to help beta test the thing let me know… I’d really love any help I can get in that manner. As to the title of this article, the project itself makes use of DokuWiki. For those of you familiar with Wikipedia its something along those lines, except Wikipedia uses MediaWiki. You might call DokuWiki MediaWiki’s lightweight, speedy cousin. They both accomplish the same goal just in entirely different ways, at least with regards to the backend. MediaWiki, and many like it, maintain their data through a database backend, typically SQL where as DokuWiki is kept in plain text, generally. That being said, it is possible to configure DokuWiki using SQL, but there really is no reason to. The nice thing about the all text format is maintability, ease of backup and human readability. Over the next
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Red M&M’s really ARE better!!!
2007-11-06 14:21:38
Even monkeys rationalize, study finds
Nov. 6, 2007
World Science
After we make a questionable choice, we often think up—or make up—new reasons to believe it was right after all. The process is called rationalization; and although it seems pointless and silly, it does sometimes help us feel better about ourselves.Now, researchers have found that monkeys do it, too. That raises the possibility that the process is evolutionarily much older, and perhaps more automatic, than was previously believed, according to the scientists.
Louisa Egan and colleagues at Yale University in Connecticut offered capuchin monkeys a choice between M&M candies of two colors for which they had, until then, shown equal preference.
After they made the choice, though, the primates began to consistently choose again the color they had just chosen—as if they had now co
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Recent Events
2007-11-22 13:01:49
Well, life has found its way of changing best laid plans for me. What some might consider catastrophic events in my life have lead to a distinct lack of time to work on Lightning-Alley, or even my new project for that matter. That being said, the events at hand have actual been the biggest blessing in my life. More to the point of this blog, I am not sure what direction Lightning-Alley will take at this point in time. The events have lead me to be inclined to start a new blog that is very targeted and very specific. It has also lead me down the road of attempting to write a book relating the events to the world… or whoever might read it. I currently plan to keep the domain and keep it a blog for that matter. However, the updates will come few and far between for quite some time. At current, I only have 4-6 daily readers so it is not like we are discussing catastrophic terms here… hehe. As it stands, I have made some great contacts through this site and I plan to make a mo
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