Archive for the ‘Other’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Update: All gone. And again, as soon as I get more, I'll update here.
Once again, I have 5 BrightKite invites for anyone interested (more info on BrightKite here). As always, leave a comment below, and in the E-mail (will not be published) (required) field use the email address you ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Update: sorry all 3 invites have been sent - as soon as I get more, I'll offer them up here as usual.
I have 3 BrightKite invites for anyone interested (more info on BrightKite here). As usual leave a comment below, and in the E-mail (will not be published) (required) ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Update: I had 20 invites, used 15 of them and Jaiku took the rest away (?!). As soon as I have more I'll update.
I once again have a bunch of Jaiku invites (20) - so anyone that wants one, please leave a comment. Be sure to use the email ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
If you'd like to stalk me online, please feel free to view/add me on FriendFeed. If you're more of a Twitter person, you can follow my rantings here. And who can leave out Facebook - you can be a Simple Help fan or join the Simple Help group, whatever floats ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I'll admit, this is a bit of a plug for my friend Ba (yes that's his name). He has recently launched a fantastic and terribly easy-to-use online product that allows you to create comics - Bitstrips. For those of you who may be witty as hell, but aren't artistically gifted, ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
After 3'ish months of total neglect*, I'm back. So far I'm doing boring house-cleaning stuff (upgrading WordPress, plugins etc). But I should have some new tutorials up soon'ish.
* = this time it wasn't neglect due to laziness (which is usually the case), rather it was illness. I'm totally fine ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Boing Boing has a great article that every Canadian needs to read. It's brief, to the point, and provides some very easy steps for us to stop some truly awful legislation.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Yesterday one of my roommates (Chris) finally got to meet one of his shero's - Tori Amos. The pictures turned out great, but one of them came with the dreaded "red-eye". This tutorial will walk you through the steps to remove red eye from your digital photos using the GIMP ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Liz - won the $25 cash prize and
NZBeats won the $25 donation to Children's Network International
(winners were selected at random by having my roommates pick a number out of a bag)
Both winners have been contacted, if I don't hear from one/the other within lets say 7 days, I'll pick a ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Update: all 10 invites have been sent. If you were one of the first 10, and didn't get the email from Jaiku, please let me know. If I get any more invites I will of course offer them here again.
Hi - this is a really rushed post because I ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
All the rules (not many) are listed here (and that's also the post you'll want to leave a comment on to enter the contest). So far there are only 9 entries for the $25 cash prize and 7 entries for the $25 to non-profit-of-your-choice prize. Those odds are way better ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Google Transit is now available in Vancouver, BC.. Since I currently live in Vancouver, and don't drive, this is great news for me. TransLink is not the most popular organization in Vancouver, so this is a step in the right public-relations direction. For more info, see the Vancouver metblogs ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
October 2007 was a banner month for Simple Help - new records for visitors and page views. And that was without a single front page digg.
266,665 Visits
490,538 Pageviews
Top Content for October 2007
How to completely wipe all the data from your hard drive (thanks StumbleUpon)
How to convert flac ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
If you're an RSS reader, please take a moment to view the site itself and take a look at the new design. I've been having some (to put it lightly) "issues" getting the template to display properly, and I think I have it worked out now - but your help ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Though it's not one of the officially supported Blog Action Day Charities, today I will donate all profits from this and my other web sites to NORML for their efforts in legalizing the growing of Hemp. More info can be found here, here and here.
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