Category Archives: Technology

Egg Exploring Photography

Posted on November 21, 2011 by egg

So you’ve probably seen by now the photos in the right hand column are getting better. As an early birthday present for me, Gretchen bought me a DSLR. I’ve been experimenting with different techniques and styles and otherwise generally improving … Continue reading →

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Yikes! Where am I?

Posted on April 5, 2010 by egg

Yes, I know this looks a little different than what we had before… WordPress, the software I use to manage this site had an excellent default theme called Kubrick that I had been using. I assume it was last night … Continue reading →

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Wii Are Back!

Posted on March 4, 2008 by egg

UPS just dropped off our Nintendo Wii. Happy to say it appears fully functional once again – now where can I hid this thing so Xavier can’t get to it?

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Rackspace Keeping Tabs?

Posted on February 22, 2008 by egg

Yesterday I posted about an email I received from Rackspace regarding their $600 referral promotion. Surprisingly alynfamily.com had a real spike in traffic as a result. I guess they spend more time keeping up with their brand than they do … Continue reading →

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Rackspace – Ha!

Posted on February 21, 2008 by egg

Rackspace, the less than fantastic, albeit fanatical, web hosting provider is trying to buy support. They have had an incredibly bad last few months. Recently a major datacenter outage in November took many customers offline. Additionally, very public technology failures … Continue reading →

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Another Time Eating Website

Posted on February 21, 2008 by egg

In an effort to cache in on the latest and greatest Social Networking craze, sites are using weirder and weirder methods to get folks to use their tools. I stumbled onto this one from a Photojojo article today. The site … Continue reading →

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So Long Wii… See You Soon

Posted on February 19, 2008 by egg

Two weeks ago Xavier decided that he could double his fun by inserting an extra disk into the Nintendo Wii – in effect doubling his fun right? Well, it turns out that the slot load drive isn’t a big fan … Continue reading →

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OpenSocial is Getting Better

Posted on February 13, 2008 by egg

Some folks will recall back in November I wrote how OpenSocial was irrelevant as a platform for social networking applications. I’ve been working with it for the last three days on MySpace and have to say, over the last few … Continue reading →

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It’s called LAMP Stack for a Reason

Posted on February 13, 2008 by egg

FAMP != LAMP, Use Linux! Continue reading →

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Web Hosting Support Nightmare

Posted on January 17, 2008 by egg

What exactly is wrong? Continue reading →

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