Memes :: geek ramblings

Tag Archives: Memes

An Air Miles Experiment

9/12/2006 – 12:58 pm

Several years ago I went on a work-related trip on American Airlines (side note: holy cow! they have RSS feeds!). I don’t travel much, but on a whim, I signed up for their AAdvantage program. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community | Also tagged Business, Experiments, Feeds, Free, RSS, Travel | Comments (3)

Between projects at work (rolling out the largest indoor WiFi network in the world at a certain international airport near Atlanta) and projects at home (building more IKEA furniture — bed, dresser, chest, entertainment center, end tables, ottomans; doing what I can to help Suze prepare for Thanksgiving), I haven’t had much time for posting lately. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Music, WordPress | Also tagged Christmas, FeedLounge, Feeds, Google, iPod, Mashups, PHP, PSP, RSS, Tivo, Video, WordPress | Comments (7)

Yarrr!

8/2/2005 – 4:58 pm

Don’t forget: Talk Like a Pirate Day is only about six weeks away. I’m going to get a customized golf shirt made for the occassion. It’s pretty convenient to have in-laws who own an embroidery business.

<plug>
Visit Hometown Threads, Your Embroidery Headquarters!
Located inside the Wal-Mart on Highway 92 in Woodstock, Georgia
770-591-9264
</plug>

I’ve picked out the main pirate design that I want on the shirt. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Fun, Pirates | Also tagged Atlanta | Comments (0)

Blogs of the Day

6/16/2005 – 9:17 am

I meant to mention this previously, but Blogs of the Day is the latest link popularity site. It’s rather nifty in that it ranks sites and articles based on actual readership, and in the fact that it’s an opt-in system. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Services, WordPress | Also tagged plugin, Plugins, Statistics, Web, WordPress | Comments (4)

Musical Baton

5/19/2005 – 5:16 pm

Thanks to the magic of Technorati and a little bit of ego surfing, I discovered that Mike Papageorge of Fiftyfoureleven passed me a musical baton a couple of days ago, but I missed it until now. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Fun, Music | Also tagged Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (1)

Google Sightseeing

5/11/2005 – 5:01 pm

Google Sightseeing is an index of interesting sites (sights?) around the world, as seen by the satellites that Google Maps uses. For example, places like The Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls, or the St. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps | Also tagged Geography, Google, Location, Web, WordPress | Comments (4)

URL ABCs

4/29/2005 – 5:11 pm

Feeding the meme…

These are my URL ABCs:

A is for airbagindustries.com
B is for blo.gs - and Bookmarks
C is for cameronmoll.com
D is for dougal.gunters.org - me me me me me!
E is for easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect
F is for feedmarker.com - like del.icio.us + feeds
G is for google.com - Duh.
H is for halr9000.com
I is for intertwingly.net/blog - what a great word.
J is for jeremy.zawodny.com/blog - just some Yahoo! out west
K is for kottke.org
L is for liferea.sourceforge.net - some random site I visited because the user agent showed up in my logs.
M is for molly.com - Molly of the hard-to-spell last name
N is for newsaskew.com/blog
O is for onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/06/10/milters.html - O is for Obliterating spam
P is for photomatt.net - The #1 Matt
No Q? WTF?
R is for resource.reh3.com
S is for spam.gunters.org - S is for Spam. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Fun | Also tagged dom, Feeds, Google, PHP, Spam, Syndication, Web, yahoo | Comments (10)

Meme Roundup

1/21/2005 – 1:36 pm

There have been several new memes lately that I have thoughts on, but I just haven’t had the time to comment on them here. I still don’t have time to discuss them in as much depth as I’d like, but here’s a quick summary:

RSS 1.1:
I have mixed feelings on this. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged comment-spam, commentspam, Feeds, Folksonomies, Google, plugin, RSS, Spam, Tags, Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (11)

Petals Around the Rose

9/22/2004 – 7:55 am

I learned about this little puzzle thing called Petals Around the Rose yesterday (via BoingBoing). It’s sort of a dice game where you have to figure out how to solve the puzzle as you go, and once you know how, you can’t tell anybody else. [...]