Tag Archives: Geek
Google Easter Egg: The Shire to Mordor

If you go to Google Maps, click “Get Directions,” select walking, and search for directions from The Shire to Mordor, you get a Lord of the Rings warning in the form of an easter egg that “One does not simply walk into Mordor.”
Google must be putting these out to celebrate Google I/O eve 2013.
Google Easter Egg: Atari Breakout
Well look at what we’ve got here. Another Google Easter Egg! Enter Atari Breakout in the Google Image Search field. You’ll get results alright, but they’ll turn right into the old school game that I spent a lot of my childhood playing. Or just get the link.
WordPress Users on Dreamhost: Upgrade PHP
For the past few days, I’ve noticed that my sites were running EXTREMELY slow. I hadn’t made any changes so I checked the server’s side. I noticed that all my domains were still running on PHP 5.2.x, which was not recommended. Not sure if this was the reason why my sites were slowed to a crawl, but everything seems to be running ok now.
Here’s how I “upgraded”:
- Go to Manage Domains in the control panel: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage&
- Click on Edit for that domain.
- Under PHP mode, pick PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.4, both work with WordPress.
- Then hit ‘Change settings’
- Wait ten minutes and everything should be golden.
Forget Google Reader, it’s Star Wars Reader!
Since Google announced it’s killing off Google Reader in July, I’ve been using feedly. But forget that for now…
Check out StarRSS. It’s a Star Wars themed/based RSS feed reader. It just looks like the opening credits of every Star Wars movie. The posts fly past you in space, complete with the theme music by John Williams. Click on the links and it’ll take you to the post. Check out what my feed looks like here.
Open VLC > Media File Menu > Open Network Stream > Paste http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun > Press Play > Wait > Watch North Korean TV
Things to Release at a Wedding Ceremony
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House of Flying Laptops
Star Wars Day 2012
You know how my tagline on this website is “more geeky than girly?” Yes, I’m a Star Wars geek. I’ve loved it since I was little. So in honor of Star Wars Day, I changed my Facebook cover photo. You can get your very own Timeline Cover image at the Official Star Wars Facebook Page.
Downloading the Internet

Need more floppy disks to download the WWW from w3schools.com.
How Back to the Future Should Have Ended
Best alternate ending EVER!
How Watson Could Have Been Beaten on Jeopardy
IBM computer on Jeopardy
Don’t forget the IBM computer is on Jeopardy tonight, tomorrow, and the 16th!
A is for Alienware

This almost looks like it’s a photoshopped or computer-generated image to me. But it’s not. It’s a picture of my laptop. Geeky, I know.
The light is coming from my desk lamp–maybe a little too bright? I couldn’t get the white balance to work with the blue in the letters. They’re all wacky, even compared to the blue from the alien head.
Anyways, this is the first image in a project I’m calling Project A-Z where I’m forcing myself to take a picture first using A then with all the subsequent letters in the alphabet.
Quick, Grab Your Arabic Domain Name
Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called “country codes” written in Arabic scripts. The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.
Chatroulette + Improv Piano Player = Love!!
For those who don’t know, Chatroulette is a website that pairs random strangers for web cam-based conversations. Kinda creepy, IMHO, but the following video is HILARIOUS! Beware the swears.
The Next Generation of Social Media Users

Published in The New Yorker 03/15/2010 by Mick Stevens.



