I still love my Toyota Tundra, but I think they’ve made a marketing mistake in one of their latest commercials. In the commercial I saw recently, a construction worker pulls up in a new Tundra on a job site. A coworker says to him, “A Toyota?”, to which the driver simply replies, “Get in.” In […]
Author Archives: Korey
Seeking: long lost friends
Just the other night I was cruising the logs for this site, and it reminded me of a post I’ve been wanting to make. Despite having very little meaningful content, I’ve had somewhere around a quarter million hits on this site, and I’ve had quite a few search terms end up in the top few […]
Superbowl oddities
Yesterday we had a superbowl party, and in short, a number of things went a little oddly… First, and most obviously, the 14-point underdog NY Giants pulled it off! Secondly, on saturday at 4pm, prior to shopping for the party, we had 8 families (28 people) planning to join us for the game. Within the […]
Hanging tough
Ok, here’s the news I’m sure most of you have been waiting for for the last fifteen years… People magazine is reporting hints of a New Kids on the Block reunion! This may not be a bad move… all of those screaming pre-teens at their concerts in 1990 are now in their late twenties.
Firebug is awesome
I’ve been fooling around with web development for quite some time, but I’ve never been all that serious about it. I wrote a photo gallery plugin for WordPress in PHP, but I didn’t really know what I was doing. This evening I’ve been working on the AJAX portion of my plugin and I finally decided […]
Guys’ Camping Trip to Starved Rock
A couple of weekends ago some buddies and I took a weekend trip to Starved Rock for a men-only camping trip. There were five of us: me, Jeremy, Dave, Eric and Colin, but the camper wasn’t all that crowded. Parking was, however, since most of us had to drive separately. Jeremy and I headed to […]
NiMH Battery Testing Complete
After several weeks of testing, I’ve finally completed my analysis of all my rechargeable batteries. I know I’ll probably catch a little grief for spending my time on a seemingly pointless endeavour, but using the results of these tests, I’ll know which of my batteries I can trust. I’ve also learned a little bit about […]
Stompers!
Last week at work, the topic of toys from our childhood came up. One toy with many shared fond memories were the AA-powered 4×4 trucks called “Stompers.” Apparently they’re still made, at least according to these enthusiast sites: http://www.route21.com/stompers/ http://www.stomper4x4.com/ Here’s a short video of one in action. See if it brings back any memories: […]
phpBB spam problem
For another project, I run a simple bulletin board using phpBB. Over the past several months it’s basically been unusable due to spam. I think the bots are able to defeat the standard captcha that phpBB provides. I tried a number of solutions (increased requirements for posting, hidden fields, reducing the reward for spamming, etc.), […]
IMAP on Gmail?
Ok, I haven’t posted anything in a while, but this is exciting (to me, at least). It looks like Gmail is going to support access through IMAP! Basically, that means you’ll be able to work with your Gmail account from an email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) better than you can today. Instead of just downloading […]