From the monthly archives:

September 2005

A long time ago I applied to be included in a beta program for Yahoo’s response to Google AdSense. I received an email today stating that I was accepted in to the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program and can begin showing advertisements. For those of you unfamiliar with online advertising, Google AdSense started back in 2003 as a way for regular webmasters to show ad blocks on their website from advertisements from various companies that Google works with. An example of AdSense is an advertisement in a box that says “Ads by Google.” Such is the case with the YPN beta. I show ads, and depending on hits, clicks, and some ratios Yahoo sends me some profit. I am just testing this program out and whether I keep it on this website or not has yet to be determined. Personally, I believe advertisements degrade a website and take away from it’s design and appeal from a purely aesthetic standpoint. They are generally a huge eyesore. However, as mentioned I am merely testing this program out. I have had experience with Google AdSense on my other website and would really like to compare the two.
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Update: A new version is out. Keep up to date via this page.

After a bit of toying around and some frivolous coding and photoshopping, I’ve come up with an RSS widget for this site. It loads the last 8 entry titles every 10 minutes. Of course, each post title links to the full article and there are several links at the bottom to make website navigation easier. It currently is only for Mac OS X Tiger computers, I am considering making a Konfabulator compatible version later on. Go ahead and download it and let me know if you have any suggestions for the next version.

Download Widget Here

Here are a few screenshots. I designed the interface as the screen of an Apple Cinema display.
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Atlanta Car Sightings

September 27, 2005 · 0 comments

On a late evening trip to the grocery store with Dan for some necessities, I spotted a BMW Z8 valet parked in front of some fancy restaurant. And the next sighting definitely warrants a mention. I’ve seen quite a few Z8’s in my time, but the next car I saw, a Lotus Esprit TT is a bit more rare. The Esprit is the larger coupe with a twin turbo, 350HP V8. All this within about one minute… the Lotus crossed me in an intersection. It’s things like this that make me want to keep my digital camera, or a separate one, in my car at all times.

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Top Gear: Revved Up

September 27, 2005 · 5 comments

I just watched the latest Top Gear DVD, Revved Up. Top Gear, a show on BBC2, is the most amazing car show. Since I’m in America I can’t watch it on tv so everything I’ve seen of this show has been downloaded or seen on the Discovery Channel as reruns. If you have any interests in cars, I highly suggest you check out the Top Gear serires. They do insane things such as a Lotus Exige vs Apache Helicopter, striking a Volkswagen with 800kVolts in a lightning test, and they take you along for a hot lap in an F1 car.

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Google Zeitgeist 2005

September 27, 2005 · 1 comment

Google has secretly invited 400 big names in the tech community to attend a special meeting. Named “Google Zeitgeist ‘05: The Google Partner Forum,” attendees must sign a non-disclosure agreement form so whatever Google tells them is kept a secret. I also found out about this through episode 16 of CommandN. I believe that the attendees will be given a sneak peek at the new Google OS. Read the article on CNet.

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Quad SLI is Here

September 26, 2005

Gigabyte, a leading Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, has just released a motherboard with 4 PCIe x16 slots that each support x8 bandwidth. The Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI-Quad Royal motherboard allows for an insane computer configuration with 4 Nvidia 78xx series video cards in SLI or scan link interface mode. This dramatically improves video performance, providing excellent [...]

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Forums

September 25, 2005

I found a great write up on how to integrate PunBB forum software with the K2 WordPress theme that I am currently using. I am not too sure if this blog needs forums, but it is more of a proof-of-concept thing right now.

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Google Video

September 24, 2005

Google’s Video search engine is now active. Their flash video player is online and can play many videos in decent quality with excellent load time. Check out a clip of the BBC’s great car show, Top Gear.

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WordPress.com Golden Ticket Giveaway!

September 23, 2005

I’ve recently acquired a WordPress.com “Golden Ticket.” WordPress.com is, to the best of my knowledge, the first free WordPress powered blogging solution. It is currently only a beta, open to a small number of users, but it is a great way to start blogging with the great WordPress software.
Rules & Directions:
I will give [...]

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cre824

September 21, 2005

Through a Systm newsletter, I found out about an international web design festival called cre824. Essentially, it is your normal tech convention with lots of speeches and seminars alongside a 24 hour website development contest with many teams. On the website, I found out that the guys from Diggnation, Kevin Rose and Alex [...]

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Good Read

September 21, 2005

I’ve just finished up Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability and it’s a great read for anyone interested in tweaking their website to its fullest potential. Krug goes elaborates on the way web users will likely encounter certain elements on a website and what they will do [...]

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Hurricane Rita

September 21, 2005

Hurricane Rita has just been declared a category 5 hurricane and is headed for my hometown, Houston, TX. From what I’ve been tracking it should make landfall by Friday evening to Friday night. The residents of Galveston, TX were already ordered to evacuate and Houston had “voluntary evacuations” from the mayor. However, [...]

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Website Updates

September 21, 2005

I’ve been reading a web usability book, so you will notice many, small user-friendly website revisions as I try to improve this blog.

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Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Production Started

September 18, 2005

CNN reports that VW’s latest Bugatti venture, a 1,001HP W16 4 Turbo monster of a car has gone from drawing boards to reality. I have been tracking this car for several years now and it’s great to hear that this car is going production. I would love to see it at a car [...]

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Talk Like a Pirate Day!

September 18, 2005

September 19th is the official international talk like a pirate day.
You’ve read about it in Dave Barry’s column. Maybe you caught one of our radio or TV interviews. Or maybe you just stumbled on to our site while googling around for sites your mother probably wouldn’t approve of. Perhaps you’re one of the millions of [...]

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