Category Archives: Technology

Confessions of a Podcast Addict

Hi, my name is Bill and I am a pod­cast (net­cast, Internet media) addict. I sub­scribe to over 110 pod­casts and I lis­ten to them all. My list starts with the “All CNET Audio Podcasts” and “All CNET Video Podcasts” sub­scrip­tions, works its way through sev­eral gen­eral news pod­casts includ­ing some from CNN, Fox, and …

May 30, 2008 – 3:36 pm | By bill | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Macintosh

Most peo­ple will find that down­load­ing and installing the “AMP” part of “LAMP” on a Macintosh from either the fine folks at Apache Friends or living-e will result in a great expe­ri­ence. I encour­age those who are not com­fort­able with the com­mand line to use one of them. However, if you are crazy like me, …

May 19, 2008 – 5:13 pm | By bill | Posted in HowTo, PHP, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Why PhpDocumentor Drives Me Crazy

Well, actu­ally, php­Doc­u­men­tor in and of itself doesn’t drive me crazy. It is the peo­ple writ­ing sloppy code and doing rather stu­pid things in the name of cre­at­ing good doc­u­men­ta­tion. PhpDocumentor has some very noble goals and ben­e­fits. Providing proper doc­u­men­ta­tion regard­ing your code is impor­tant, espe­cially open source code which is used by  lots …

May 6, 2008 – 9:56 am | By bill | Posted in PHP, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Twitter, a Second Look

I have been pon­der­ing some more after my first post. People like John Dvorak jump­ing on the band­wagon got me to relook at the issue. I also received an e-mail from some­one who sug­gested that I needed to fol­low a lot more peo­ple to get a bet­ter pic­ture of Twitter. And so, I have started …

April 29, 2008 – 11:34 am | By bill | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

PayPal and Anti-Phishing

Over the past few days, I have seen a gag­gle of reports that PayPal may block older browsers from access­ing their site to stop phish­ing attacks. Of course, the Macintosh sites and a cou­ple non-Mac sites such as the NY Times have head­lines that pro­claim “PayPal Plans to Block Safari and Old Browsers.” Interestingly enough, …

April 19, 2008 – 10:39 am | By bill | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Twitter out, Pownce in

I have to admit, I still don’t really get Twitter. It seems like it is 99% garbage. Twitter is based on the ques­tion, “What are you doing?” and in most cases, peo­ple are doing rather noth­ing inter­est­ing. I know I cer­tainly am not. Others use it almost as a web based IM client, which I …

April 10, 2008 – 2:50 pm | By bill | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Spam, E-mail, and Filters

We all live with spam. It is a fact of Internet life that with­out seri­ous spam fil­ters, we would be over­whelmed by spam. Some sta­tis­tics say that spam accounts for as much as 90% of all e-mail sent today. I don’t under­stand why spam works, and it must, oth­er­wise it wouldn’t be so preva­lent. Folks, the …

April 7, 2008 – 12:41 pm | By bill | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Why Macintosh?

I find that the war between Macintosh and Windows is at one level rather stu­pid. But that is because in the end, I hate all com­put­ers, I just hate the Macintosh the least. Ok, so I don’t really hate com­put­ers but there are times.… As to why Macintosh? There are a lot of sub­tle rea­sons, it …

April 1, 2008 – 5:08 am | By bill | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (1)