2 hours of blogging

This is a clip of 2 hours of blogging compressed into a 2 minutes video.

No more IM for me

Actually, it is not necessarily no more Instant Messaging, but it more of a “less IM”. I do not really talk that much on Yahoo Messenger, but I use it as a reason for procrastinating all the time (when I get bored, I browse my list and I am sure to find someone that needs [...]

Shoutwire, good or not?

I have recently (as in 6-8 months) started to use the power of social news sites for some of my sites. Of course, the main sites I used were Digg, Netscape and Stumble Upon. Yet, recently, I have started to test some more, since I launched some sites with themes that are not in the [...]

Make your own custom smileys for Pidgin

As you already know, I use Pidgin with Yahoo/MSN smileys with for my IM needs. Peter, from TurbulentSky, found out it’s possible for all of us to create your own Pidgin smiley themes and here is where you can find out how.
Basically, you should write a theme file that tells Pidgin which images to use [...]

Microsoft to fight Google’s ad network

Several months ago, Google bought Doubleclick in a well-known and publicized transaction, paying anything to get it out of Microsoft’s hands.
Well, Microsoft tries to come back, apparently, by buying aQuantive. aQuantive is not as big as DoubleClick, that’s for sure, but at least they finally got it that they (Microsoft) do not get it when [...]

World Blogger Championship of Online Poker

I play poker from time to time, so here it is:

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 3326697

It never happens to you: server breakdown

Yeah, I am sure you heard all the horrific stories with sites lost and the likes and thought: well, that would never happen to me.
Guess what: this is exactly what I was thinking until Friday, 2 weeks ago (the date: July 20th). Then, out of nowhere, my server shut down. I installed a rescue system [...]