Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Many think of the internet only as a place where you find web pages, but there is much more going on than what can be seen with a browser program. One of the alternate offerings online is know as Usenet. It was originally intended as a discussion board embedded into the net, where users could [...]
I’ve been coming across these interesting videos on the net of makeup application tutorials. I am not in the target audience for these (being a guy who does not wear makeup), but their quality and pacing help to make the subject matter fascinating. Basically, a cute girl demonstrates how the use of a wide variety [...]
It’s been a long stretch since my last post. I don’t have any excuses for a 7-month gap, but there have been mitigating factors: When I moved into this apartment back in June of 2006, I upgraded my DSL connection. I remember downloading songs from Napster back in 1999 at a painfully slow 24 kilobytes [...]
Thanks to Wikipedia, I got stuck on YouTube this weekend! It was all because of the Wikipedia entry titled “List of Internet Phenomena,” a comprehensive report on people, pictures, audio files, videos and even concepts that became “hugely popular, often quite suddenly, through the mass propagation of media content.” I focused mostly on the videos, [...]
Wow, take a breather for a second and suddenly you have a dead blog! No problem, I know for quick blogging relief I can apply a handy TOP TEN LIST! At my job I get to listen to audio all day long, so I am lucky that I can probably enjoy more than my fair [...]
So my neighbor at work made me listen to the Rusty Humphries Show on the radio the other day, normally not my cup of tea, but Rusty had his 4 year-old daughter as a guest and she had many adorable and funny comments. Another guest was an african-American minister who had some disturbing things to [...]
Looks like one of my favorite DJ’s, Otis Fodder, has reposted one of his Halloween compilations onto the net for download. If you want some fun party music, you’d better get it while you can!
