Archive for April, 2008

Wordpress Plug-In For Getting RickRolled

I’ve seen it all.
This morning, I logged into Wordpress. I have the newest plug-in listed there, from Wordpress.com. This is what I see:

OK, so technically, this might not be a TRUE rick-roll. But, it sure does graffitti up the admin panel. Here is the link to the plug-in.
Shocking. Funny. Lame. At the same time, I [...]

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OpenMac & Psystar Reeks of A Publicity Stunt

I was writing a post this morning over at PCMech about OpenMac and why it’s going to fail. As I wrote that post, I had this nagging feeling in the back of my head that this was a complete and total scam. It is a play to get a boatload of attention.
Of course, I can’t [...]

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Why PCMech Was Sluggish Yesterday

Some may have noticed that PCMech was slower to respond yesterday than usual. Here’s why:

That is what they call, in technical terms, a big-ass traffic spike. In other terminology, it was a Digg Effect from our article Why Use Linux? getting onto the homepage of Digg and basically coming in as the #8 most [...]

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“The Simpsons” - Is The End Coming?

You can typically tell when a series is coming to an end on TV. How? It gets serious. The comedy is sucked out of it.
I watched Simpsons tonight and, sadly, I’m seeing it in the cards. In this episode (Papa Don’t Leech), the Simpsons take in a country singer who apparently once hit on Homer. [...]

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Gnomedex: Yeah, I’m Going Again

After thinking about it a couple days, I decided to give Gnomedex another go this year. So, it is scheduled for August 21-23rd in Seattle. I think I might check into getting a room right there at Bay Harbour. Last year, I stayed inland from the conference. It was about a 20 minute walk. No [...]

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The $60 Hotel

You get what you pay for.
This old adage is and always will be true. And one thing that proves it is the hotel I am sitting in right now. I am sitting in the Quality Inn over in Kissimmee, FL. My wife is over here to take a test for her engineering career and I [...]

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Why I Do It

That’s why.
And quite frankly, the fact that I can make enough money to provide a good living for this little lady - all by blogging - is just the best.

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Open Suggestion to Chris Pirillo on Gnomedex 8.0

It looks like Chris Pirillo is starting to organize Gnomedex 8.0 in Seattle in August this year. I got an email from him yesterday where he is giving people who have attended in the past the chance to sign up early.
But, the question I have is this: should I even go?
I went to Gnomedex last [...]

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WebbyOnline Now DavidRisley.com

It took only a few hours of time (thank you Wordpress), but I have gotten this blog set up from scratch to where it is now. This is a brand new blog, but you’ll notice I have a boatload of material here already. Well, the reason for that is that I have imported all of [...]

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The Power of Blogging

There is a lot of cool factor about running a popular blog. PCMech gets quite a bit of traffic and, yes, this gives me a soapbox. Every now and then it is nice to vent on that soapbox.
This morning I posted a story over at PCMech about an asshole contractor from Bright House who managed [...]

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