Owner: Come On In The Web Is Fine URL:http://www.natebal.com Join Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:23:41 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: I've been building websites and other such random geekery for about the past 7 years. During the day time I'm a full time hired geek. By night I'm a mountain biking freak.
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Friday Morning Levity 2008-03-07 07:49:32 The name of the place is Kings of Wings. They specialize in Chicken, Fish, Rib Tips and Kool Aid. No this isn’t a photoshopped image. It’s a real place. I ran across this just the other day and had to post an image. Next time I’m out this way I’ll have to stop in and [...] Read more:Friday
, Morning
How To Upload Videos To YouTube 2008-03-02 19:07:10 (This is my first YouTube
video ever. Low end video courtesy of my razr phone.)
How Do I Upload
Videos To YouTube?
This is so easy a sleep deprived drunken 1 armed monkey could do it. Let’s get started.
1. Click on the yellow upload button in the corner.
2. Add your video specific details and sharing options.
3. [...]
Editing the Firefox Splash Plugin 2008-02-29 08:34:32 Splash is a Firefox
add-on that adds a custom splash screen when the browser starts up. It’s a fairly customizable plugin that adds your own custom touch to it’s interface.
So let’s get started with customizing this add-on
You’re going to need to open your Add-ons menu first to access the splash options screen. [...] Read more:Plugin
, Splash
Holy Mackerel I’m On Laughing Squid 2008-02-27 14:39:19 Wow what a cool birtday present. You just have to love Entrecard. Thanks to this fantastic little widget I made it on Laughing
Squid’s homepage.
Laughing Squid is an art and technology blog I’ve been following for years. They have a little bit of everything and it’s a dream to be listed on the site. Entrecard [...]
We The Robots Hits It On The Nose 2008-02-21 15:29:44 I love this eclectic little web strip. I just blogged about having enough of winter a little over a week ago and found this both poignant and fitting.
Enjoy, WE THE ROBOTS - SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
(Click on the strip above for larger image)
I’m Fucking Matt Damon - By Sarah Silverman 2008-02-20 15:42:10 For those of you that don’t know Jimmy Kimmel is dating comedienne SarahSilverman
and has been apparently for the past 5 years. This video is great. I now love Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon
that much more. Such a hilarious performance that I felt the need to post it here.
Enjoy.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Fucking Ben [...]
Buy Celebrity Poop, Skin Cells And Bacteria…Eeeeeeewwwwwwwww 2008-02-20 10:11:06 Dr. Drew, Billy Corgan & Mike Tyson to name a few.
File this one under weird and creepy. I just heard about this site on an archived Loveline episode.
Anyway, they were talking about Celebrity
Skin because they somehow got access to Dr. Drew’s fecal matter and were having an over stock sale. I’m not [...] Read more:Bacteria
Jane Fonda Drops The C-Bomb on The Today Show 2008-02-18 09:07:59 I just heard this on the Adam Carolla Radio Show and knew there had to be a YouTube video out there and low and behold here it is.
Jane Fonda
at 70 years old drops the following line while talking about her role in the Vagina Monologues.
“I live in Georgia ok. I was asked to do [...] Read more:Drops
, Today
Dr. Drew’s Reaction to 2 Girls 1 Cup 2008-03-14 13:26:04 I just found this one on YouTube. It’s a shot of Dr. Drew, Stryker and Producer Ann watching the nasty 2 Girls
One Cup video. I sat through almost 5 seconds of the video. In fact I had to go to wikipedia to read all the details as it was way too nasty for me.
I’m [...]
From Crisis to Crysis 2008-03-13 19:27:46 I haven’t been posting much lately because life has been keeping me fairly busy and for what ever reason when it rains it pours and thus I’ve been shirking my blogging duties. One of the things keeping me from any regular posting is my new computer. Well…constructing my new computer. My motherboard died on me [...] Read more:Crisis
, Crysis
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2008-03-17 08:30:16 May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. Cheers…
Who was St. Patrick Read more:Happy
Using Photoshop Blending Effects To Make Your Graphics Stand Out 2008-03-18 15:46:41 If you’ve never used blending effects in Photoshop
you really need to hop on board. Blending
effects can be particularly handy when creating the same effect over and over. This is especially beneficial when making graphics for a website that holds a set standard. Save a psd with layer effects applied to it and you [...] Read more:Effects
, Graphics
, Stand
Support The Hammer And Say F –You to the Man 2008-03-24 13:36:45 Go watch Adam Carolla’s new movie debut, The Hammer
. It’s only showing in limited theatres mostly on the west coast right now, but if there’s enough support it will be spread to more theatres. Hopefully near me. This way I don’t have to wait for the dvd to come out to see it.
This labor [...] Read more:Support
Porn For The Blind 2008-04-14 11:55:44 Don’t worry this one’s safe for work. Porn For The Blind
is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. I think they would have been better off using a female voice for the audio, but different strokes for different folks.* pun intended.
The site is comprised of [...]
Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare Screen Shots 2008-04-18 08:27:38 Screen shots from my latest obsession Call Of Duty 4 ModernWarfare
. Set in modern times utilizing technology used today by our armed forces this game is hard to stop playing. It’s unfortunately short, but once won cheats and arcade levels become a menu option. There are also new maps in the works as well.
New [...]
Zeitgeist 2008-04-23 10:31:40 So far I’ve only watched part one about religion, but the similarities they bring up with other religions and there connection to the Zodiac Calendar are compelling arguments for religion being more about astronomy and sun worship than faith.
One interesting point they bring up is the idea of, “End of Days”, or the Apocalypse. [...] Read more:Zeitgeist
Bloomer Park River Ride Suffering From A Long Winter 2008-04-22 15:52:57 There’s a stretch of trail I frequent that resides in and outside of Bloomer Park. It runs down both sides of the Clinton river in Rochester and ends up by Yates Cider Mill. Some great little technical trails blazed by salmon fisherman of all people.
There’s a lot of quick runs, log pyramids and down [...] Read more:River
, Suffering
Typical Sunday Bike Ride 2008-04-24 19:10:03 Here are some pics from the last few days along with a super cool new feature which I’ll be reviewing soon called Map My Ride. It’s a neat online application that can import GPX files from your GPS and trace your biking or hiking routes.
It will tell you mileage, elevation, calculate calories burned and [...] Read more:Sunday
How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template? 2008-04-24 12:14:09 I was bouncing around the net trying to find some easy, “Copy and Paste”, code to add Sociable type functionality to my Blogger
blog and had little luck locating code that actually did what it said it would. So I set to the task of writing something that would.
Below is some simple code you can [...] Read more:Buttons
How Do I Open docx Files ? 2008-04-25 11:04:10 Having troubles opening Office 2007 files? Your version of Word doesn’t seem to know what to do with .docx file? Being an IT guy I keep running into this issue as people start upgrading their Office Suites.
The Issue:
“Microsoft introduced the .docx file format in its new Office and Word applications and wants it to [...]
Mountain Biking Bloomer Park, Rochester MI 2008-04-27 22:12:14 Some multi-media goodness from Yesterday’s ride out at Bloomer Park. Thanks Map My Ride, YouTube and Flickr.
Bloomer Park RunFind more Bike Rides in Rochester
, Michigan Read more:Biking
, Mountain
Disc Golf Seymour Lake 2008-04-27 12:59:41 I’m really digging Map My Ride. This track is from Seymour
Lake Park. It was to windy to play all 18, but I still got a decent track from the park to play with.
Seymour Lake 4.26.08Find more Walks in Lake Orion, Michigan
Biking Blogs For Bikers 2008-05-02 11:54:00 I’ve been spending some time combing over the internet for biking blogs as I have a new project in the works with homeboy Shane. Check out the link roll below for some cool biking web sites and be on the lookout for our new brainchild, Mountain Biking
Society.
Mountain Biking Blogs Read more:Bikers
How Do I find Indexed Pages And Backlinks For My Web Site? 2008-05-05 14:24:23 Here are a few ways to see how your site is doing with the major search engines. Specifically, this post will show you how to find indexed pages & backlinks in the top 3 search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN.
IndexedPages
And Backlinks in Google
Google makes this very easy. Simply pull up Google in a [...] Read more:Web Site
Single Track Mountain Biking - Cinco De Mayo 2008-05-06 10:59:19 Shane and I finally got out and put in some decent mileage yesterday in Rochester. Below are a few shots from our ride down the Clinton River single tracks. Be on the look out for our new biking website soon, Mountain
Bike Society.
Rochester, MI Cinco De Mayo 2008
From the looks of Google Weather we got [...] Read more:Biking
, Track
Mountain Bike Stoney Creek Metro Park, Rochester MI 2008-05-09 11:38:33 Hello again fellow single trackers. We had a great ride last night out at Stoney Creek and being the geek I am I have some digital content to share. I’m thinking this might end up being one of our home trail systems. The terrain out here can be a little challenging. There is a fair [...] Read more:Mountain
, Rochester
Michigan Drivers Responsibility Law, An Unfair Act During Hard Times 2008-05-12 18:46:52 In Michigan
, since October 2003, there’s been a diabolical little law in place called the, Michigan Driver’s Responsibility
Law. This devious program was put into effect to supposedly tax unsafe drivers for negligent or dangerous driving conduct. Sounds like a good idea in theory, but I’m seeing it more as a grab for cash in [...] Read more:Drivers
, Times
Map Bike Rides From Your GPS Unit Using Easy GPS And Map My Ride 2008-05-21 10:19:46 It’s no secret that I’m a fairly big geek who also enjoys mountain biking so when I found Map My Ride the consummate nerd inside me was thrilled. Map my ride is an excellent program for mapping out hiking & biking trails using your gps or an easy to use online mapping tool.
I like [...] Read more:GPS
, Rides
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