So, one of the things that has always bothered me about WordPress is the Site Stats plugin. I understand Akismet and why it links off to a 3rd party database filled with spam fighting stuff, but why must Site Stats? I mean, it’s data about MY site, right? Why not simply track that internally?...
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about podcasting recently. Not surprising given how much podcasting I do these days. I mean, I’ve got the Functional Nerds with John Anealio, the SFSignal podcast and the producer gig for Mur Lafferty on I Should Be Writing – that’s a lot of gravitas under my...
I said I’d do it, I warned you – you didn’t listen, did you? Well, now it’s TOO LATE! THE RETURN OF THE PODCAST IS HERE! Episode 9 of the All Things From My Brain Podcast is here. In this weeks massive, DOUBLE SIZED, MAXI-PODCAST, I am joined by a special guest on his...
Back in the day, there was a company called ‘AOL’. They provided a service to people. You had to have a computer and one of their disks that would come in the mail. When you installed the disk on your computer, a couple of things happened; first off, you could now dial into the...
Faxiophiles I’ve been around computers and technology for as long as I can remember. I cut my teeth on the Apple Color Computer II, then the TRS-80 (Trash80) from Radio Shack. I recall BASIC and DOS, played Pong, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sony Playstation and the XBOX-360. I’ve fond memories of dialing into...
When it comes to social media/networking, I think things have whittled down to two major players: Twitter and Facebook. There used to be more. There still are alternatives out there, but I don’t use them for all sorts of reasons. I was never a MySpace person. The very first time I visited a MySpace...
It doesn’t matter if you have ten friends or a million on Twitter, I guarantee you, some of the people on that list are spammers. Actually, there’s probably a good portion of them who are spammers. I know you know who and what I’m talking about. Spam n. a disruptive, esp. commercial message posted...
Here’s the stuff I checked out at lunch today. Technology Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word (patent infringement) Apple insider CNet News Facebook launching Twitter-version of site? CNet News Apple Stuff iPhone share of Smartphone market continues to increase Apple releases Safari 4.0.0 Music labels to offer enhanced album format to compete with...
Well. As you may or may not have figured out by now, I am most definitely an Apple head. I’ve got 2 iMacs at home and an iPhone in my pocket and I love to discover new games and apps to play with AND I love to share those finds with the kind folks...
One of the things I’ve noticed since joining Twitter is that my instant messaging has gone WAY DOWN! Does this spell the death of the instant messaging services? Or has Twitter BECOME the new IM? Prior to using Twitter throughout the day (Via tweetdeck), I would have several conversations going in either my AIM...
About Patrick:
Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and podcasting dude who lives in Colorado with two cats, Dakota and Shadow, who make sure he gets little sleep and always remembers who is really in charge. He writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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