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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!
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Nike+ iPod Fix Retraction
My last post (Nike+ iPod : Cheap Fix For Failure) outlined a method whereby one could get around the premature end of workout due to water (sweat) damage for the iPod Nano and Nike+ Sensor setup. Well this method worked well for me for several runs a...
Mashable.com Beta Fail
I just attempted to login to My Mashable account and received the screen below. It looks like they are beta testing some new platform using Scalr, which is a cloud computing platform. I wonder if they’ll let me in the beta since I uncovered the...
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
I received the strangest spam comment on this blog a while back and have just gotten around to posting about it. Ever want to take out your competitor’s website? Need some intellectual information stolen from somewhere? Well, now I have the hoo...
Mediacom Help Online? Or Hello World
I was trying to hunt down some information about latest internet provider, Mediacom, for which I have not been extremely excited about. I found this PDF for Broadband Internet Help and figured I’d take a look. It was basically information on ho...
Funny Site Error Message
I was browsing a website looking at Glock handguns tonight for my father-in-law. I noticed that the site was performing extremely poorly; everything took a long time to load. That’s just about when it happened. I received a site error message. ...
Win a New iPod Nano!
AdaptiveBlue is promoting their FireFox plugin, Glue, by giving away an iPod Nano! All you have to do is: Install Glue by going to www.getglue.com Follow @glue_genie on Twitter Retweet this message: Entered to win an iPod from www.getglue.com. Just ...
Cleaning Up HTML Code
I love (sarcastically) cleaning up other people’s HTML code. For instance I just found this little snippet. <td rowspan="2"> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font> &...
Active.com Is TOO Active Today
I tried hitting Active.com today to check on some new Running articles and received the following error message. It’s nice that they tell you that they are too busy to service your request… I guess....
ThinkGeek Points - Where’d They Go?
Let this be a warning to you. You must use your ThinkGeek points or you will lose them! I just happened to check mine this morning and I guess I don’t purchase often enough. Oh well....
Thank You, Glue Genie!
I just won a new book! And it was really easy. I’m a user of Adaptive Blue’s Glue, a FireFox Add-On that does some really nice stuff to help you tag and organize stuff you find and like on the web. They also have a “Glue Genie”...
Alvin and the Chipmunks Revival - Really?
I just overheard and television commercial in the room. It was Alvin and the Chipmunks singing Livin’ On A Prayer. No! For the love of all things holy… Noooooo! So I looked it up and sure enough; there is a new release of these deplorable...
The Reason For The Season
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph also we...
Recession Special! - Save $5 or $10 off your next ThinkGeek order
Thinkgeek is doing their part to help out in these rough economic times. To that end they are offering $10 off of your next order of $50 or more, or $5 off of your next order of $25 or more. Just enter the code GREED during checkout and the system wi...
Download Led Zeppelin on iTunes Now!
You can now download your favorite Led Zeppelin tunes on iTunes! Go check it out....
The Human Race (10k Run) For Charity
Yesterday I participated in the Nike Human Race event, a 10k worldwide run to raise funds for several charities. The race took advantage of some pretty cool technology. They used their Nike+ sensor technology to be able to include people from all ove...
Diversity Training!
I just received an email from my work that stated something similar to the following: Dear Jonathan Franzone, This e-mail will provide you with information on how to participate in Online Diversity Training. Every employee of XYZ Corp. is being asked...
Freaky Site is NOT Fedora
Ever been looking for the RedHat Fedora (Linux Distro) site and type in the wrong address? If not, then you probably haven’t run across this somewhat freaky site. The address is http://fedora.org and they must be used to the wrong hits, because...
Michael Phelps Reported In Blizzard Forums For Gold Farming
A good friend of mine just pointed out this hilarious post on the official World of Warcraft forums. The original post was as follows: I have evidence that a character named MichaelPhelps has been farming gold. I also have proof that he is doing this...
Win a $10,000 Office Makeover
Play Dell’s Synergistic Mission Critical Out-of-the-Box Sweepstakes for a chance to win some really cool tech gear and the main prize of a $10,000 office makeover. Just go on over to DELL.COM/smb/BuzzwordSweeps every day until September 3 (2008...
Amazon RAID Search - Odd Results
Does Amazon know what I am looking for more than the search phrase that I just typed in? Perhaps… but perhaps not so much. I was recently searching around Amazon for a few separate classes of items. The first thing I searched for was headphones...
Google Search, Huh?
So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for --secure-auth and --old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database...
What Is A Bush Robot?
No, it’s not an evil plot to take over the presidency and the White House. It’s also not that singing bush on The Three Amigos. I’m talking about “fractal branching ultra-dexterous robots.” So what the heck is that? A bu...
Friday Fun Waste Of Time
You know that on Friday afternoons you just feel like wasting a little time. Well, this will do just that! I stumbled onto this little Flash game that is so absolutely simple, yet so intriguing. You start with a pyramid of blocks. Just click somewher...
Why Is My FireFox Freezing!?
For the past month or so I have been extremely saddened by my FireFox browser. I’m running Windows Vista (weeping and gnashing of teeth) and it seems like Firefox would just freeze up from time to time. I had network activity and could actually...
Is That Randy Jackson Or Captain Kangaroo?
I’ve never been one who has been completely up to date with fashion. Since I work from home my dress usually consists of shorts or jeans and a t-shirt. My wife and I were watching the red carpet events for the 2008 Finale of American Idol when ...
Link Bundle - May 14
Log memory usage using declare and ticks in PHP Dave Marshall, a web developer living in Hull, England, share a really quick and simple trick to allow you to monitor the memory usage of a PHP script. Thanks, Dave! Magnify’s Really Cool Video and Im...
New Dilbert Widget - Vista
There is a new Daily Dilbert Widget out that is… better! At least that what Dilbert says. You can get the widget at http://csharptricks.com/Articles/DailyDilbert.aspx. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Dilbert Widget - Vista", url: "http://www.f...
Social Network Avatars - Hot Or Not?
Most people running blogs and doing… well, anything on the internet these days use social networks. These could include the likes of Facebook or StumbleUpon and other more blog-centric ones like BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog. One of the interesting ...
Coding In Minneapolis
I am in Minneapolis, MN this week for business so I’m not sure how prolific my posting will be. So I thought I’d just drop in a quick note to say, “Happy Monday!” It’d be happier if I were back in my home office, but oh ...
Yahoo May NOT Have The Answers
In which case you should go take a coffee break or something… according to them. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Yahoo May NOT Have The Answers", url: "http://www.franzone.com/2008/04/28/yahoo-may-not-have-the-answers/" });...
