Archives: Geek

One of those rare days

April 1, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

I use iGoogle as my home page in my browser. Love it. One of the features of this arrangement is the ability to add widgets to the page and plug in RSS feeds from blogs (like this one ;-)). As you might imagine, one of the built-in widgets shows the weather. This one allows you • Read More »

Oh, the humanity!

March 22, 2010 | By Patrick | 1 Comment | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

If you’ve seen me lately, no doubt you’ve seen the headphones or ear buds in my ears. I’m a huge fan of podcasts and always (yes, always) listen to something when I’m not doing anything else. Heck, I’ll listen even when I’m doing something else. It’s just audio, right? Very easy to multitask. In fact, • Read More »

Name that car…

March 6, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

Clearly, I know nothing about cars. Found this on The Oatmeal. AND FAILED! F Quiz Created By Auto Insurance

Roku Rules

November 27, 2009 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

Beginning the day before Thanksgiving, I love my Roku player more than ever. You may know the device as a way to stream Netflix movies to your TV over your home wireless network. By itself, it’s worth the $99 to be able to sit down and watch any movie in your streaming queue whenever you • Read More »

Playing with SlideFlickr

August 24, 2009 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

Hey, look what you can do! I came across someone else’s Flickr slide show embedded in a blog and thought to myself, “Self, you should do that with some of your pictures.” There are a couple of free slide show makers that I came across after very little research. Here’s what SlideFlickr can do: I • Read More »