How IT projects work

Posted on February 26, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles, Pictures

This is soooooo true. As a matter of fact, we never have a clue of what the hell we’re doing.

The Story of the iGoogle Teahouse Fox

Posted on February 25, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles, Google

Everyday, at 3:15 AM, the teahouse fox on iGoogle receives the visit of three ghostly foxes. Here is the story of why; don’t know if it’s true, but I found it beautiful:

“Before he goes to bed, the Teahouse Fox sets out a persimmon offering outside his pagoda. At the strike of 3:15, three ghosts come to his humble teahouse. Who are these spirits? Why do they visit this Japanese fox? Read More…

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Oh Ballmer!

Posted on February 19, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles

Nothing better to chill out a stressful day that some funny Ballmer picture, really ask developers (developers, developers).

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Street Fighter Valentine’s Day Cards

Posted on February 14, 2008
Filed Under: Geek Fun, Geek Stuff, Geeky Articles, Pictures

Ok these are really awful, and creepy.

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Happy Scientist Valentine

Posted on February 14, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles

Great Post about the most prominent Scientists wishing Happy Valentine’s Day.

Go check it out

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The Google Logo Iterations

Posted on February 12, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles, Google, Pictures

Here are some of the Google Logo iterations that led to the present Google Logo.

Chek out the link to the article from Wired Magazine

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El Job-zo partying with his toys

Posted on February 9, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles

Those are really great costumes!

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iPhone now has 16GB

Posted on February 5, 2008
Filed Under: Apple, Geeky Articles, Tech News

Tha Apple store went down earlier today, now there’s two storage upgrades:

The iPhone has now up to 16 GB (prices remain)
The iPod Touch now up to 32GB (for a $100 more)

And so there’s an upgrade I’ve been looking for, still waiting for the new MacBook Pros.

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How many sites does the Web have?

Posted on February 4, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles, Microsoft, Tech News, Web Related

According to a January Netcraft survey, there’s around 155,583,825 Web Sites on the Internet. That’s a hell of a lot to check out.

Two other interesting data points:

Growth had slowed from 5.4 million new sites in December to just 354,000 new sites in January;
Apache serves, which have been in the lead but suffering a long decline has been surging lately, and at the expense of Microsoft.

Click here to see the survey results.

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The Great Geek To Do List

Posted on January 31, 2008
Filed Under: Geeky Articles

Thanks to Kludge Spot for this!

Wake Up.
Check E-mail.
Dawn your favorite geeky t-shirt.
Organize box of spare cables that you never use.
Consider that since you no longer have dial-up and no one ever calls, why is it you are still paying for phone service?
Check E-mail.
Walk the isles of the local computer retailer, critiquing other customers purchases. “You know, no one stops to consider the real benefit of L2 cache anymore. Let me explain…”
Save some time to drool over the newest Nvidia chipset you can’t afford.
Write down all the inflammatory Mac slurs you can think of on a 3′x5′ card for easy reference.
Dust off your keyboard. No one likes a messy keyboard.
Check E-mail.
Spend three hours writing a script that organizes all your desktop icons by priority and saves you 24 seconds every morning.
Spend 40 minutes troubleshooting said script that just deleted all your desktop icons.
Break up the day with some Sci-Fi. TRON, Star Wars, Planet Of The Apes…or whatever.
Check E-mail.
Verify WiFi signal strength.
Spend 2 hours building a homemade WiFi antenna booster from cardboard and aluminum foil.
Check E-mail.
Check E-Mail from your mobile device.
Send test E-Mail to verify E-mail is still working.
Put the finishing touches on your one eighth scale trebuchet.
Lay siege to stormtrooper stronghold, with aforementioned trebuchet.
Check E-mail.
Enter 10 hour gaming coma with breaks only for the restroom and Mt Dew.
Post a to do list to your blog.