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Spending (Wasting) Time to Save Time
November 12th, 2007
“One freelancer’s quest to streamline his life by optimizing daily his Google homepage is an exercise in efficient time-wasting.” This is so true. I find myself easily getting distracted and ending up wasting my time online. It reminds me of the concept of spending money to save money. Hit the read link below to read [...]
A More Natural Alarm Clock?
November 8th, 2007
I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoy my nightly sleep and don’t enjoy being woken up by a blaring alarm clock. The glo Pillow, by Ian Walton, makes an attempt to wake you up in a more natural way. The glo Pillow is an alternative to the traditional alarm clock. It was designed [...]
OS X Leopard Launch / Zooomr.com
October 27th, 2007
Well, Leopard is finally launched, my whole family attended the launch party at the Willow Bend Apple store and we all got a free t-shirt. Universally the best way to share, search, store, sort and sell your photos online. I’ve added some new pictures to my Zooomr account over here.
Ad Dollars Flood Web, But Will They Go Far Enough?
October 14th, 2007
This article brings to mind a discussion I had with one of my uncles earlier this year about ad supported services and where the money actually comes from and how you as a consumer eventually pay for it by increase in prices to offset advertising costs. The article discusses crowding in the online advertising market [...]
Awesome Web Hosting Deal!
October 2nd, 2007
Here is an update I put on my website, jordancronin.com Edit: The DreamHost deal still seems valid as of 2007-10-2 (October 2nd, 2007) Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Wow. It is hard to believe that it has been over a year since I posted something on here, although, I have made changes to the site and [...]
Spam Registrations
August 18th, 2007
It’s been close to a week since I installed and got working the ReCaptcha plugin for phpBB2 and, so far, I haven’t had a single spam registration!
It’s SELinux’s Fault
August 13th, 2007
I think I discovered the source of my PHP error messages and problems. I looked in my system logs and saw that SELinux was blocking some of my stuff… I will have to figure out how to add rules to SELinux to keep it from blocking that. At least I know what’s causing it… -Jordan
ReCaptcha on phpBB2
August 7th, 2007
(You can read about ReCaptcha at http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html) In my quest to stop the spam registrations on my phpBB forums on my website (www.jordancronin.com) I decided to try ReCAPTCHA’s (free) CAPTCHA service. On their website, they have “plugins” for popular websoftware, including one for phpBB2. I tried following their installation instructions, but I keep getting in [...]
Printing to a Linksys Wireless Print Server in Ubuntu Linux.
May 22nd, 2007
We have a Linksys WPS54G wireless printer server at my house, and since I’m running Ubuntu most of the time, I wanted to be able to print from within Ubuntu. So when I finally got around to looking at the printing options built-in to Ubuntu, I was quite suprised at what I found… What first [...]
Social Bookmarking Sites… Del.icio.us vs. Ma.gnolia.com
May 13th, 2007
Bookmarks. I never used them. Until… I had never liked having bookmarks in I.E. (older versions of it) because it just wasn’t very feature rich, and I figured I didn’t really need them because I could find whatever I wanted by doing a google search… To make it short, someone told me about FireFox and [...]