January 5, 2012 – 4:47 am
Would you prefer to pay less for your mobile phone but want unlimited data? Have you ever left the US for more than a month but had to pay your mobile bill while using none of it because of a 2 year contract? I was excited when I read about the Walmart data plan, a [...]
December 21, 2010 – 2:26 pm
I’ve switched the domain name of my blog from http://bnee.com to something shorter: http://bn.ee. .ee is the top level domain for Estonia. I’ve moved my blog and other contents to http://blog.bn.ee so that http://bn.ee can be used as a URL shortener. If you’d like to create your own really short URL and you somehow think [...]
December 16, 2008 – 12:06 am
[This was updated 12/16/2008 with the most recent software I am using] 7-zip – This program will handle nearly any type of compressed file. Its pretty solid and supports drag and drop. – Replaces WinZip & WinRar Daemon Tools – Daemon tools is a CD emulator, needed if you want to mount CD or DVD [...]
November 11, 2008 – 8:40 pm
A picture I took in Hong Kong recently got featured in the Error’d section of The Daily WTF. They even took the time to blur out the kid’s faces. Brendan Nee observed some children at a Hong Kong airport enjoying one of my favorite passtimes – dancing on a projected DOS prompt! View the post [...]
September 4, 2008 – 10:18 pm
I’ve been rocking Google’s new web browser Chrome for the last few days and really like it. Browsing craigslist and clicking on email mailto: links I realized there isn’t an obvious way to force these links to open a gmail window in Chrome. Most Windows systems will have the default mailto handler set as Outlook [...]
En route from Belize City I decided to honor the start of the 2008 Olympic Games by taking the Panda Express challenge. A sign in Houston’s George Bush Intercontintal Airport posed the question: “Which is better, Beijing Beef or Orange Chicken”. After trying both, I give the gold medal to Orange Chicken with Beijing Beef [...]
Warning: Rant below I decided to take a last minute trip to Belize with Lisa to meet up with Jed who has been traveling around Mexico for the last few weeks. Lisa found a $360 ticket at 8 PM leaving at 12:30 AM so we packed, hit up a Taqueria for a goodbye burrito and [...]
April 10, 2008 – 11:04 am
Update: Thanks to Joost in the comments for suggesting the use of get_pages() to accomplish the same thing as what I posted below. He posted the example: $pages = get_pages(‘child_of’ => [[THE PARENT ID]], ’sort_order’ => ‘ASC’); foreach ($pages as $page) { // Do your thang } This seems much better than what I had [...]
December 20, 2007 – 11:37 pm
Update: Buxfer has ceased to operate reliably – venmo is a great replacement. I use buxfer to keep track of expenses among friends, it had really streamlined paying for trips and meals and cut down on the confusion. I use it almost daily. Recently, I attempted to add a new group to share expenses among [...]
October 25, 2007 – 8:30 am
I use wordpress for many sites, and its really important for me to be able to automatically perform nightly backups of not just the database, but all files including uploads, themes, plugins and the basic wordpress files. I need the ability to revert any file back to a previous version. I found a variety of [...]
October 16, 2007 – 5:24 am
Today I downloaded the latest Radiohead album, In Rainbows. Unlike all the other albums I’ve obtained since I stopped purchasing compact discs, I purchased this album directly from the artists on their website and downloaded the album directly in just a few minutes rather than from peer-to-peer networks. I chose to pay £5.00, which gives [...]
October 7, 2007 – 2:15 am
The future of personal finance software will be online. I regularly use buxfer to keep track of shared expenses with my roommates and friends. Often we’ll share groceries or meals and its easy for one person to pay the whole bill, then enter the transaction online later and split it evenly (or unevenly) among the [...]
October 3, 2007 – 11:58 pm
I looked at the facebook network for La Crosse, WI, my hometown and was impressed that there are 12,856 people on this network alone. People on facebook can belong to only one regional network at a time, so its likely that most of these users actually live in the La Crosse metro region. The city [...]
September 28, 2007 – 1:42 pm
Maybe for some people who don’t know the midwest as well as I do the google analytics visitor overlay map looks fine. However, the shape of my home state, Wisconsin, is certainly distorted and Michigan is almost unrecognizable. This overlay uses the states boundaries that extend over water. For most states that does not affect [...]
September 28, 2007 – 1:16 pm
I recently made a post about how many open source or free applications I am currently using after a reformat of my laptop. I noticed that it was getting a lot of traffic from the google search “open source dumeter“. The same search revealed NetMeter. It is a freeware program that seems to have all [...]
September 27, 2007 – 12:23 am
For one of my clients I regularly deal with posting for sale and for rent listings on craigslist to test out formatting issues. Today, after I submitted one post, I got the standard post confirmation along with: Paid to craigslist 2007-09-27 — paymentID real estate for sale Total to be charged 0.00 Is craigslist setting [...]
September 22, 2007 – 4:08 am
Not wanting to be the last of my friends to cancel their myspace accounts, I pulled the plug today. (Preston did it the day before, but hasn’t written about it yet). I realized that I rarely logged in, most of the messages I got were spam and not very many of my friends were on [...]
September 17, 2007 – 11:29 am
Preston and I had the opportunity to have dinner with two members of the freshbooks team. We both use freshbooks.com for tracking our work and billing our clients, and it happens to be one of my very favorite web applications. Now we’re both pictured on the freshbooks blog. Preston and I ended up taking Mike [...]
August 18, 2007 – 11:39 am
Firefox is fantastic, but you can make it better. Add some of these extensions by visiting the site & clicking the install link. If you are using firefox, the extension will automatically install and be ready to use after you restart your browser. Tab Mix Plus: Allows you to control how you browse by opening [...]