Dr. Bill | The Computer Curmudgeon
Join Dr. Bill as he examines the wild and wacky world of the web, computers, and all things geeky! Hot Tech Tips, Tech News, and Geek Culture are examined… with plenty of good humor as well!
Dr. Bill pontificates on all things technical!
Whoa! This will make you think. Check this out:
Then, to see how far we are from each of the planets (and the sun) check this out:
One pixel in these photos equals about 1000 km. Wild!
It makes you consider your relative size with respect to God’s Creation!
OK, so spammers have “bots” that scan web sites for e-mail addresses and add them to their lists that they then sell to other spammers for high fees and them use these lists to send out tons of spam! “What if,” someone said, “What if… we provide the bots a link that will generate tons of useless e-mail addresses (on their OWN spamming domains) that will ‘pollute’ their lists, making them huge, unmanagable, and unusable?” Well, that is the idea behind “SpamPoison”… you set it up as a link on your web site, or blog, and enjoy the fact that spammers will be harvesting bogus addresses and causing them trouble. It does have a certain poetic symmetry doesn’t it?
On PodcastAlley, at this very moment in time, the “Dr. Bill: The Computer Curmudgeon” podcast is rated number 12 in the “Technology” area! Dewd! (I know that it is early in the month, and I know that it may be a bit of a fluke, but I am going to enjoy it while I can!)
Go to this link, search for “Dr. Bill” and vote for me! (Please! I need the ego stroking!)
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Other rankings at the same moment in history in Technology: Number 6: Diggnation, Number 8: This Week in Tech, Number 11: CommandN
You gotta love this! I have always been intrigued with the idea of a hydrogen powered car. The problem is storing the very volatile gas for the car to use as fuel. Well, some Israeli engineers have developed a method of creating the fuel in the car itself!
Check out the link above… it is a very interesting article!
OK, so I was minding my own business, scanning on digg.com for what was happenin’ in the Cyberworld, and I ran across a note that someone was selling Windows on eBay for a penny! It was Windows 95 on CD-ROM (Upgrade Installation Disk,) and sure enough, it was selling for a starting bid of one penny! However, what was just too cool… was that there were ZERO bids!
OK, OK, I know it IS just Windows 95, and an Upgrade Version at that… but it was SO worth a snicker!
It is finally official! OpenOffice 2.0 is out, and it rocks! In case you have been living under a rock somewhere, OpenOffice is a really great, and totally FREE Open Source Office Suite that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux! This release has many things to recommend it, especially the addition of it’s own database (similar to Access.) As before, it will read and write all Microsoft Office formats. You owe it to yourself to download and use this new editon! Here is the link:
This will also be our official Geek Software of the Week recommendation!
Check out this Edmunds’ review on the new Honda Civic GX with a Natural Gas conversion kit!
Natural Gas Honda!
Sounds good to me!
OK… it was only a few years ago, but these “fads” on the web are just SO yesterday! Please, if you are still a webmaster, DON’T use these things… they are are just SO gauche!
Check them out… here’s a sample:
Portals, “Splash” and “Intro” Pages, “Communities”, Page Counters, Homepages, MIDI or WAV files and animated GIFs, Guestbooks and “E-Postcards”, WAP content, and oh yeah… “Awards” for your site. Dewd. Get wit’ the program!
I recently switched jobs. I was Webmaster for Guilford County, now I am back at the Center for Creative Leadership. While at the County, I got very used to coming in to my office, and doing my web updates while listening to various tech oriented podcasts. I had it down to where I was getting to hear one or two a day, and it allowed me to stay “up” on what is going on in the tech world while working on other things, because it could play in the background and let it be “background noise.”
When I came back to the Center, the first few days, I didn’t have my own PC, or even a “real” place to sit. But, it wasn’t too long before I found a way to do my job while listening to podcasts again. Boy! It was like being away from an old friend not to have my podcasts! Now, I am feeling better, more comfortable, and getting back “up to speed” on the fast breaking tech world! It is interesting how certain things help you feel “at ease” and “at home.” So… as I type this, I have a podcast running in the background. Sigh! Very nice!