The only good thing to come from the Hollywood writer’s strike (so far) is this generic episode of House on Metafilter:
CHASE: House, we need to cure this patient. He is very sick.
HOUSE: Did you try the medicine drug?
CHASE: I did try the medicine drug.
HOUSE: Only stupid people try the medicine drug. You are stupid.
Alzheimer’s Disease scares the crap out of me. Fortunately, a team from Stanford has discovered a blood test for the disease that has a 90% accuracy rate in preliminary tests.
Ruhani Rabin describes how to make Windows Live Writer handle tags properly. This step will not be necessary after the next version of WordPress comes out.
Note that in Windows Live Writer, you add tags by putting them in the box labeled "keywords," not by clicking on "Insert Tags."
Continuing my never-ending quest for disgustingly unhealthy foods, I present to you the french-fry coated hot dog. Sold in South Korea. (Via MetaFilter)
ProBlogger, a blog about making money from blogging, is giving away $54,000 in prizes to readers. On Friday, they’re giving away two 20″ monitors that use USB to connect rather than display cables, so they work well with laptops. That’s the prize I’m hoping to win.
The BJU snack shop is a testing ground for new snacks and treats for candy companies. If its new at Target, it’s been out for a year at the snack shop. This is an example for snack food innovation: donut holes in a cup. A brilliant idea whose time has come.
Hey, you remember how I told you about SFTP Drive? Odds are, you’re better off learning how to connect Windows to your FTP server for free. Although this method doesn’t let you assign the FTP server to a drive letter, and it’s running through the less secure FTP protocol, it’s faster than SFTPDrive, and it’s free.
I’ve just finished upgrading my blog to WordPress version 2.3. Let me know if you find anything where the site doesn’t look like it should.
WordPress 2.3 adds two features that I care about: Post tags, and plug-in update notifications. The former will make it easier for you to find posts that you’re interested in (once I go back and tag all of my old posts), while the latter will make it easier for me to keep plug-ins up-to-date.
I have run into a bug where it keeps telling me that a database table doesn’t exist, but that might be related to an old plug-in. I’ll play with it. It was a plug-in: The Google XML Sitemap generator needed to be updated. Now everything appears to work properly.
GCalSync is a neat bit of software that syncs your phone with Google Calendar. It works OK on my Blackberry so far, although it doesn’t handle time zones very well. It has an option to manually adjust the time settings. Now it works pretty well, and I can carry my calendar on the internet and in my pocket, and I don’t have to use Outlook.
This is pretty cool: this guy is writing blog entries on the backs of receipts.
