Tag Archives: geekiness

Performancing!

Posted on January 3, 2006 by oook

I recently installed Firefox 1.5 on my parents’ computer and was idly browsing for extensions when I came across Performancing. This is an extension that allows you to blog to WordPress, MovableType or Blogger from within Firefox! Experimental support is … Continue reading →

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Science can be sexy!

Posted on December 30, 2005 by oook

Being a wonk (as Brits would say) or a nerd/geek is usually a bad thing. If you’re too interested in science or (god forbid) you choose that as your profession, you can forget about ever being called hot or sexy. … Continue reading →

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New Features!

Posted on November 13, 2005 by oook

For lack of anything else happening on this blog, I’ve spent most of last night plugging in some new (and mostly useless) features! Well, basically, I’ve just tweaked the way commenting works and I’ve included Google/Blogger’s version of trackback which … Continue reading →

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Social network madness

Posted on April 4, 2005 by oook

Wasn’t the acronym YASN coined at least two years ago? So what’s with all the new social networks springing up? And why don’t any of them work well? Gah! What I am on… LiveJournal Yahoo! 360° orkut Flickr Ryze Friendster … Continue reading →

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I used to be able to handle this…

Posted on April 4, 2005 by oook

There was a time I was pretty cool with whatever went on in the world of computing. I was a mad code monkey that wrote programs in assembly for fun, wrote DOS utilities, batch scripts and some simple database programs … Continue reading →

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The family that bots together

Posted on March 8, 2005 by oook

The family that bots together Originally uploaded by Shambly Hermit. Kingdom of Loathing was this funny, weird, and fairly simple (in terms of interface) online game I played for a few months last year. Many of us from flickr/GNE really … Continue reading →

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Netcraft confirms it…

Posted on January 17, 2005 by oook

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!.

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Isn’t it Hobvias?

Posted on May 26, 2004 by oook

So then, striatic has been going under the name of Hobvias Sudoneighm for quite a while and a week or so ago, yeöz finally twigged onto it because of a Google search he did. If I recall correctly, in a … Continue reading →

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Google’s Game, Set and Match

Posted on May 24, 2004 by oook

The fun folks at Google now present for your viewing pleasure… Google Sets. Enter in a group of things you know belong to a set and then click a button and Google predicts other items that might belong to that … Continue reading →

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Can you see me now? Good!

Posted on May 12, 2004 by oook

It’s always funny looking through the referrer logs for this blog. Especially the searches that seem to turn up my blog. Here’s a random selection… From AOL Search: MP3s are for previewing purposes only From Google (obviously the most) pylons … Continue reading →

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