Phil801 - Geek Blog

!@#$%^&*!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know if it was hacking or pure incompetence on the part of the hosting company I use, but my database on this blog has been rolled back to April!!!
I’ll try to get eveything put back to where it was, but I’m a bit busy today.
Now, where did I put that […]

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Man, I’m still laughing from this list of 10 Accidentally horrific but true domain names by way of Greg Hughes!
A little irreverant, but hilarious! I always get a kick out of it when I come across a site that has unintentionally done this - the lesson: always write out your domain name […]

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Facebook let’s you create a badge for your site really easily - but they make it kind of hard to find!
I stumbled on it yesterday morning while I was working on a Facebook app and it led to me re-working my whole blog. Scoble pimps Facebook more than he pimps Patrick’s iPhone […]

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I ended up spending most of the day today pretty much totally redesigning this blog. I’m still using a theme I changed to a month or two ago, but I finally customized it and got it pretty close to where I want it. If you read from RSS - please come in for […]

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Date: Tues, August 7th 2007 - 5:30 pm
Location: TBA
This is for you if:

You are a business owner or a decision maker, thinking about your business’s presence in Facebook (you should be thinking about it - if you’re not, then come to learn why you should be)
You are a programmer interested in getting a boost […]

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For several days now, I’ve been working on a new algorithm for story detection and identification - and I’ve just finished the first step of it! Let me explain quickly what it’s trying to do:
The purpose of The Daily Spike is to monitor the entire Blogosphere (vs. select blogs on select topics - that’s […]

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Overheard: my 6 year old talking to my 4 year old while they were playing on their computers:
Naiya: “No, it’s on the internet”
Gibson: (authoritatively) “Do you even know what the internet is Naiya? You’re only 5.”
Naiya: (dismissively) “YES! It’s where all the games are!” (referring to HP games, Mattell games and Disney games)
Gibson: “And, it’s […]

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According to AT&T’ second-quarter earnings report, they activated a whopping 146,000 iPhones in the first two days - apparently everyone else was still on hold with their Customer Service Dept.
Investors, finally recognizing that Apple partnering with AT&T was a really stupid idea, pulled out at an alarming rate to drop the stock price by $5.70 […]

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