Archives: Geek

In a word – or a short phrase – Twitter refers to micro-blogging. Whereas “regular” blogging is like what you’ve been used to in this space, micro-blogging is short blog posts in between regular blog posts. Huh? This video does a much better job of explaining it: [youtube ddO9idmax0o] Really? People do this? And like • Read More »

If you share photos on Flickr and have a web site, check out the Flickr “badge” that you can easily create at their site. (It’s at the top right of the main page.) Copy the generated code to your blog and let it go. Easy as can be. Clearly, I need to put some more • Read More »

I stumbled across this site today. It has dozens of optical illusions and is good for whiling away the hours on this here Internet. In case you missed the first link, click anywhere on this line.

Braving the elements for a rare glimpse of a full lunar eclipse seemed like a good idea at the time. I’ll just run outside and click off a few shots of the moon as the earth’s shadow passes over it. “It’s really not that cold,” and “There’s no wind so it’s not too bad,” were • Read More »

More on the eclectic side of the web, here’s a nugget for the sewing-minded in this audience. I have to admit that I once wondered how that crazy machine works. Wonder no more, I say.