Category Archives: Personal Writing

April Fool’s Online Is Once Again Annoying

    I remember when it started happening years ago, the parody story on April Fool’s day.  It has become a staple of the online world.   Unfortunately it also means that you can’s trust any news story you read online.   The first time I noticed it happening was the late 1990′s on Slashdot.   …

April 1, 2013 – 5:01 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Comments (0)

Let Axis of Awesome Teach You How To Write a Winning Song

    Axis of Awesome is a great band that I discovered on Youtube last year.   To be fair I only watched one video and never followed up again on them.   I did post their Game of Throne’s video yesterday.  This prompted me to look through and watch some of their other videos. …

March 30, 2013 – 7:53 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Comments (0)

The Day The Internet Broke

    There have been numerous reports of the 300 GBs DDoS going on in the last week.   This morning Gizmodo discredited the effect this is really having on the Internet.    I know I didn’t notice any overt problems myself.  I have experienced plenty of network outages at work or at home over …

March 28, 2013 – 10:55 am | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Technology | Comments (0)

When Will Amazon Put Used Stores Out Of Business?

  This last weekend I went to a local used music/movie/video game store just to browse.   I ended up walking out with seasons 1-3 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Blu-Ray and some other things.   I knew season 4 was out and wanted to pick that up also, so I went to …

March 27, 2013 – 12:10 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Comments (0)

Amazon and Google: The Race to the Bottom of The Android Market

  Amazon announced it’s new Kindle lines today.   The first thing that is going to hit everyone is the price drops.   If we focus on the Android based tablet line, Amazon released the new Kindle Fire for 159.99.   This is obviously in response to Google Nexus 7 tablet.   The only thing …

September 6, 2012 – 3:43 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Comments (0)

How to Use IFTTT With Google Drive Without Sharing All Your Docs With IFTTT

Yesterday IFTTT announced that they were adding support for Google Drive.  I was initially excited.   I could stop using Dropbox as a catch-all for all my IFTTT updates.  There is a problem though, access to Google Drive is all or nothing.   I haven’t allowed the service access to my Gmail account, because I’m …

September 5, 2012 – 4:17 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Comments (1)

The Death of Commenting

  Remember about four or five years ago when commenting was all the rage?   Blogs would have to adapt and develop new commenting systems.  Companies such as Disqus and Intense Debate rose in prominence just because they offered integrated commenting solutions that were better than native ones.   Looking around the blogosphere today it …

August 29, 2012 – 3:47 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Comments (0)