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Jared W. Smith is a 23-year-old IT nerd and perennial college student in Charleston, South Carolina. He's maintained some sort of presence on the Web since 1998 and has been blogging since before "blogging" became a term (the year 2000, to be exact).
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Great tropical weather resource
I encourage you to check out the Hurricane room on FriendFeed, the hyper-aggregator service. The room, created by Rob Williams and suggested to me in comments the other day, brings in a variety of so...
Fay is Serious Business
Tonight’s Serious Business will be a two-parter; we’ll be starting out on Charleston Weather talking about the latest with Tropical Storm Fay, now a 55 MPH tropical storm starting to make ...
Hurricane Hunters headed into 92L
The National Hurricane Center reports that Hurricane Hunter aircraft are currently investigating Invest 92. NHC’s boosted the chances of development in that area of disturbed weather to over 50...
Coming up on Serious Business: “Designed For Browser X” and more…
It’ll be a short one on Serious Business tonight, but we’ll be talking about why “Designed For Browser X” needs to finally die, pay tribute to Bernie Mac and Issac Hayes, who b...
Serious Business scales back tonight
It’ll be a short, no-frills Serious Business tonight, as I’ve just gotten back from Atlanta and I’m quite tired. I will talk a little bit about the trip and try to catch up with wha...
My recap of Pavano and Hughes
As promised, here’s my guest post on YanksBlog.com about Phil Hughes and Carl Pavano’s rehab appearances for the RiverDogs Tuesday night. The rain really kept a lot of folks away, so I ha...
Pavano and Hughes rehabbing in Charleston
Folks in Charleston will get to see a rare sight later tonight, as Carl Pavano and Phil Hughes of the New York Yankees will embark on rehabilitation assignments with our Single-A RiverDogs against Ash...
Coming up on Serious Business: Apple Store and more!
Don’t forget about Serious Business tomorrow night at 8:30. We’ll be talking Apple Store, why Windows’ days in my household are numbered, and whatever tangents we find ourselves on ...
Apple Store Saturday
The King Street Apple Store opens Saturday at 10 am. I’m thinking about dropping in to check out the hysteria — anyone else?...
Post & Courier offers buyouts to employees
The Post & Courier is offering to buy out their employees to help cut back salaries without layoffs. This scares me. We need newsrooms; despite the rise of citizen journalism, there is still an...
A scorcher in store
Charleston’s got another scorcher in store for today, with a heat advisory in effect once again from noon until 9 PM for heat indices over 105 degrees. With such heat and humidity, thunderstorm...
A rough Invest 96 update
Based on some unscientific radar observation this morning, it seems that an elongated circulation is a bit stalled about 35 miles or so off the Georgia coast near the GA/FL border. It’s still t...
WordPress 2.6
Just rolled WordPress 2.6 out to the site. Things are looking good so far. If you run a WordPress blog, the new features are pretty nice and do well to build on the major improvements in WordPress ...
Yet another sign we’ve lost it as a country
A group of kids in New York state who built a Wiffleball field find themselves not in a field of dreams but in a legal nightmare instead. Seriously? These kids ought to be commended for actually goi...
About freaking time
I’m going to be upgrading this WordPress instance to 2.5.1. FINALLY. Stuff will be discombobulated for a little bit, hang tight. UPDATE: The update’s been completed. Looks good over h...
The Web’s relationship with newspapers
This is lazy of me, but I want to know from you: What relationship do you think newspapers and other reporting outlets have with the Web? My thoughts are forthcoming, but I’m interested in wha...
Tornado Watch
Twitter’s down so I need to blog this one…Tornado Watch is out until 10:00 — there are some cells headed this way, too, so keep alert!...
Question of the Day
I got this question in a late-night/early morning streaming session: Is it considered drinking alone when you’re in a webcam session? Discuss....
Guide to Twitter terminology now up
People ask me at least once a week what some of the acronyms I say mean, so I whipped up a quick guide to my Twitter terminology to serve as a reference. It’ll expand, and if you have any sugge...
I used to do some really sweet DHTML
Managed to add another page to the About the Site section, this time covering the tortured development of what would have been Realm 5.0, the fifth generation of my old personal site that was supposed...
Quick note on comments
I’ve finally started closing out comments and trackbacks automatically to posts over 120 days old that haven’t seen approved activity in a reasonable amount of time. This’ll cut dow...
Odd man out
It seems that odd days are not good days to expect updates to The Blog. I’ve done updates on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and now the 8th, not giving love to an odd-numbered day since the 29th of Februar...
Return of Ballmer
Developers Developers Developers is back, but with a twist this time. Too good not to watch....
Green Bay in mourning
Brett Favre is apparently retiring. This surprises me immensely, especially considering that his last pass was an interception, but the man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do. And the fact th...
The WordPress dashboard IS useful!
Saw this through my Weblog Tools Collection on my WordPress dashboard. Check out this neat Gravatar application that doesn’t use a plugin. Very cool. I should implement that tonight....
Rough day in store tomorrow
It’s never good when a meteorologist says “tomorrow looks crazy”. Apparently we are in for quite a wallop tomorrow. Mississippi’s getting pretty battered by severe weather no...
Follow JaredWSmith.com SuperDeeDooperDoppler tonight
Due to the threat of severe weather tonight, I’m broadcasting SuperDeeDooper Doppler tonight using GRLevel3’s Web publishing mechanism. It updates every five minutes or so, and shows watc...
Is an Apple store on the horizon?
The P&C is reporting this morning on the possibility of an Apple Store opening in the former Cumberland’s space on King Street. That would be very sweet, and fit right in with the high-end...
Groundhog Day
So will I be stuck in today for a month (or at least the duration of a 90 minute Bill Murray film)? Also, Phil saw his shadow. Though the way the winter has been here this time around, six more week...
Twitter as a news tool
ReadWriteWeb has a great article about how Twitter is being more seriously used as a news and discussion tool, rather than just status — in other words, an article about something most of us Twi...