Category Archives: General

General posts that have nothing to do with anything in particular.

Most Read Posts of 2009

According to my Google Analytics, below are the top 3, most read posts of 2009 on this blog. Buying a HDTV: 720p vs. 180p & Seating Distance – Here I go over what 720p and 1080p are and how seating … Continue reading

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Why Blocking Social Media Sites is a Bad Idea

Draconian access rules like blocking web blogs, social network sites, or video sites will only lead to lower employee moral overall and a higher turn around rate on employees, meaning higher costs overall because you’re constantly having to train new people on your practices, policies, and routines. Like I said, open the internet up to your employees, deal with those not working and you can have a productive and happy team. Continue reading

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links for 2009-06-26

How to: Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 3.0 – Windows PC redsn0w Edition | The iPhone Blog (tags: iphone jailbreak) Let's make the web faster – Google Code (tags: google optimization programming tutorial web performance)

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Physical Media is Dead (Again)

And while this is most definitely the case, that geeks are streaming/downloading movies more than buying them, the rest of the non-geek population is not. We as geeks live in our own little world and regularly forget that the rest of the world doesn’t think like us. They also do not (for the most part) act like us either. Continue reading

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Gone Linux (Again)

Last month I made a decision. I decided to jump back into Linux. At home I had been running XP for a couple of years and I had more recently installed the beta for Windows 7. While I found Windows … Continue reading

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Daily Photo 2008-10-12

Daily Photo 2008-10-12, originally uploaded by mkoby47.

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