Technology

Ok, so I've been bugging literally anybody I like with ears about Twitter. Conceptually it can be hard to wrap your head around. The problem with that is if people don't understand what Twitter is, they won't be inclined to use it. Many people I follow on Twitter try valiantly...
Read more »

Once again this year, Geeklog was given a green light to participate in Google's Summer of Code Program (thanks again, Google!). That means it's time to encourage students to apply not only pick up valuable experience but to also be a part of a top notch team which brings experience and...
Read more »

Ok, so I got turned onto this blog entry on Ian Christian's blog. If you read it, it references a phpguru entry that got my attention as it has thoughts on MVC by Rasmus Lerdorf

I don't want to get caught-up in the rant so much but to take a...
Read more »

Can 
anybody 
tell 
me 
why
email
replies
I 
make
using
Yahoo!'s
web
client
makes
the
original
message
look
like
this?

Yes, it's f'n annoying. Yes, I will report a bug but figured a rant on the blog was in store. I just started getting this here in the past few weeks where it posts one word per line. Bah.
Read more »

In typical Iowa fashion I was behind the general "know" when I was finally put on to Twitter. Not even a month later I find myself addicted and have gone so far as to add a better text messaging option into my monthly mobile plan. Why?

Addiction. Viral Infection. Boredom....
Read more »

For an Iowan I'm pretty wired. I'm subscribed to a number of RSS feeds to give me a more worldly (or should I say, Silicon Valley) feel to my news. So TechCrunch has an entry about Twixter which is basically Twitter plus photos. The basic question I have...
Read more »

I'm sure this isn't the first time this question has been asked but will Zend Framework ever be distributed via a PEAR channel? Some of you might try to point me to this non-Zend site claiming to do just that but it is falls a bit short. That site simply bundles...
Read more »

Last week some of the local news channels reported the Iowa's Sex Offender Registry is one of the nation's ten best. It is managed by the Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation but the website itself is one...
Read more »

Man, what a weird 24 hours it's been. So yesterday, through one of the Geeklog mailing lists, I got this email from a Microsoft rep. Then I woke up this morning to the news of a $44 billion buy-out offer from Microsoft for Yahoo!. This is...
Read more »

I've been emailing back and forth with a number of politically-minded friends and most spend their time telling me why Obama won't win the Democratic nomination. That's very possible given Hillary has essentially been campaigning for the job as far back as her husband's first term in office. Hillary also has some...
Read more »