Blog Detail

franzone.com

http://www.franzone.com

I'm a work from home web geek, a father of three, a husband, a World of Warcraft nerd, a martial arts/kung fu practitioner, a musician and many other things. Product reviews, technical articles, April Fools posts, life stories, oh... and we have comics!

Added on: Apr 25th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Jonathan Franzone
Listed in: Personal Gadgets
Tags: family technology humor parenting ipod world of warcraft

View More Recent Posts

Upgrade Time : WordPress 2.9 and MySQL 5

Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 10:31 am in MySQL, wordpress, Blog Babble

WordPress 2.9 was release somewhat recently and so like a good WP minion I logged into my site and clicked the update button. Error… uh oh. Apparently WordPress 2.9 requires a more recent version of MySQL (>= 4.1.2). My host installed MySQL ...
Geek Gift Ideas – November 30

Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 04:00 am in humor, reviews, gifts, geek, gadgets & toys

Some people have said that, “laughter is the best medicine.” Well, today’s geek gift idea is the gift of laughter; the kind that appeals to geeks in particular. xkcd is described as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language....
Geek Gift Ideas – November 27

Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 10:01 am in reviews, gifts, geek, gadgets & toys

Why not start off the Geek Gift Ideas 2009 edition with a Despair, Inc. 2010 Custom Calendar. Every geek loves geek humor and Despair Inc. has been dishing out the sarcasm for years now. Not only does this calendar provide a hilarious demotivator fo...
Friday Song Of The Day – Happy Christmas (War Is Over)

Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 09:42 am in music, video, friday song of the day

It has been since March that I posted a Friday Song Of The Day, so I figured I’d kick off this Christmas season with a Christmas tune. John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) seemed apropos to both the season of the year and our country. ...
Remember The Beatles? 1000 Years Later

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 11:46 am in music, humor, video, thanksgiving, the beatles

This is a hilarious video about what the world will view as The Beatles in another thousand years. I really enjoyed the musical reconstruction midway complete with a theremin. Oh, and by the way… Happy Thanksgiving! ...
Building ChromiumOS (The Google OS)

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am in google, tutorials, software engineering, operating systems

I’ve been watching all of the hype about downloading and running the latest Google creation, ChromiumOS this week so yesterday I decided to take a stab at it myself. I did not however want to simply grab a VMWare image and run it. I’m a ...