Category Archives: The Internets

More ‘Just A Band’ — Ha-ha

Posted on 2010/12/18 by chaircrusher

Not my favorite track on the Just A Band 82 album, but this music video does rule. Apparently it was one of East Africa’s first Viral video complete with its own #Makmende Twitter tag. Makwende is apparently the Kenyan Chuck … Continue reading →

Posted in Music Software, The Internets | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Kiss My Teeth?

Posted on 2010/08/09 by chaircrusher

This showed up on my little provincial radar from following UK Bass producers like Cooly G, Roska — KMT, or Kiss My Teeth This is, (and correct me if I’m wrong), a vocal sound people make, which is more accurately … Continue reading →

Posted in The Internets | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

The Ad Every Model Wants In Their Portfolio

Posted on 2010/05/26 by chaircrusher

When I get e-mail from legitimate sources, GMail doesn’t display any images by default. You can choose to always display images from that sender, or see images just in the current e-mail. For some reason, e-mail from spammers shows the … Continue reading →

Posted in silly shit, The Internets | Tagged | Leave a comment

Je suis l’ennemi de l’État

Posted on 2010/03/10 by chaircrusher

This is a Moveon.org prank video thing, where they stick your name and photo (from facebook) in a fake news story about Glen Beck. It’s been done before — but when my utterly ridiculous Facebook profile photo showed up in … Continue reading →

Posted in silly shit, The Internets | 1 Comment

Time for a Buzz Kill — I’m killing Buzz

Posted on 2010/02/16 by chaircrusher

So in the last year I count Google at two strikes. First off Wave is… pretty useless, as it turns out. The one place it would be great — collaboration and ad hoc interest groups — don’t really work so … Continue reading →

Posted in meta, The Internets | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Clip Art Fail

Posted on 2009/11/09 by chaircrusher

So the brother of a friend of ours was killed in an auto accident yesterday morning. This is awful, but the local paper in his area thought the article on their web site needed head on collision CLIP ART as … Continue reading →

Posted in Photos, The Internets | Leave a comment

HOWTO: Upgrade XP (32 bit) with the downloadable Windows 7

Posted on 2009/10/23 by chaircrusher

I had a real adventure last night, installing Windows 7. I ran into a problem so infuriating, and yet so completely boneheaded and ridiculous that I had to laugh. It’s described here. In essence, if you bought the EDU $29.95 … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, Music Software, The Internets | Leave a comment

E-Mail ettiquette: the ‘you go girl’ e-mail.

Posted on 2009/08/20 by chaircrusher

Something has been irking me that probably should not.  To wit: electronic messages that don’t say anything but “That’s Excellent!” or “Nice job!” or “Happy Birthday!” Maybe it’s rude of me to be irked, but messages that have information other … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, The Internets | 1 Comment

Crystal Cat Urine: YouTube Ads Punk Dan Deacon

Posted on 2009/07/12 by chaircrusher

I had an interesting talk a couple weeks ago with my brother about his job at Digg, and Diggs interaction with the people at Google. Without going into the industry gossip, the takeaway from the chat is that above all … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Silliness, The Internets | Leave a comment

Fun for some value of fun: W3C HTML Validation

Posted on 2009/07/02 by chaircrusher

So for ‘fun’ I ran http://www.cornwarning.com/Tickertape through the W3C Markup Validator. Actually, the thing I was concerned about is that the page looked fucked up in IE8, and presumably other browsers. Haven’t rechecked it yet, since I’m on a Mac … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, The Internets | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Use Audio Player WordPress Plugin outside WordPress Blogs

Posted on 2009/07/01 by chaircrusher

I figured this out yesterday, and it is the sort of thing a lot of people would like to do and haven’t figured out yet. First off, this is the audio player: and you can read up on it at … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, Music, The Internets | Leave a comment

The Internets: #squarespace & amiestreet.com

Posted on 2009/06/12 by chaircrusher

OK, now I get it, though since I don’t give a toss about Squarespace or iPhones, I was just annoyed and baffled by all the #squarespace tweets. While we’re on the subject, Squarespace seems to be appealing to some people. … Continue reading →

Posted in meta, Music, The Internets | 1 Comment

One WP blog set up & I’m an expert?

Posted on 2009/06/01 by chaircrusher

I’ve now gotten three unsolicited requests for help setting up websites. This is flattering of course, and you know, but other than general figure-shit-out skills developed as a programmer for 25 years, I’ve very little web-specific knowlege — just what … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, The Internets | Leave a comment

Mystery Solved: Why I Keep Getting Twitter Adds.

Posted on 2009/04/13 by chaircrusher

I have been mystified by how many Twitter adds I’ve been getting, since I don’t really bother too much with it. But I think I’ve partially solved it. Unfortunately it’s NOT because I’m so awesomely original and brilliant that everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in silly shit, The Internets | Tagged | 1 Comment

The Continuing Twitter Mystery

Posted on 2009/04/07 by chaircrusher

It’s like if a bunch of your friends all of a sudden started getting into Scientology. I hate to be the gazillionth person to say “I don’t get Twitter,” but I don’t get Twitter. I will say this, it seems … Continue reading →

Posted in The Internets | Tagged , , | 2 Comments