Archive for January, 2006

Spam Control

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

I was getting a lot of Spam comments held for moderation, so I installed something to help deter robots.  When you leave a comment, you will be required to enter some text presented in an image.

Let me know if it causes any problems!

Punchout

Friday, January 20th, 2006

http://famicomband.org/movies/punchout.mov

New Job!!

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Last week I was offered a job at Thomson West as a Software Engineer and I accepted it! I start on January 30th. I’m pretty excited although I’ll miss Red Oak a lot.

Monday, January 16th, 2006

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38524/

E-Mail Subscribe Feature

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

I’ve been searching for a way for people to subscribe to my site and get updates via email; I finally got a plugin installed that will allow people to subscribe directly from the site! To get e-mail updates, click here and fill out the form. It will send you a confirmation, and then you should recieve updates as I post to the site!

If you want to take it a bit further, visit bloglines. Bloglines aggregates all of the sites you keep up on on one page- I use it to watch all sorts of stuff. To see what I subscribe to, look here.

Check back soon; I’ll be posting big news tomorrow!

More on the Fast Ferry

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Well, as I posted, the mayor of Rochester decided to kill the Fast Ferry.  Probably all for the best, it just wasn’t making any money.  But I regret that I never got to take it for a ride.

No more Ferry

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

No More Ferry

Interesting Slideshow about the Jordanville Monastery

Monday, January 9th, 2006

The Utica OD had an article about the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary/Monastery in Jordanville the other day.  They also have an interesting slideshow about the same- it’s really cool because they have a recording of the Monks chanting in the background.  You can view it here.

(Jordanville is in Herkimer County near Ilion)

Exploring Webster

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Calin and I went to the Royal Dynasty Chinese restaurant last night; we called ahead and ordered a Peking Duck- I had it once in Manhattan, but Calin had never had it. It was really good; I wanted to take a picture, but we thought it would look weird if I took a picture of our meal at the restaurant.

We also got to visit the two indy coffee houses in the area. On Saturday we walked to Webster Village and got coffee at Joe Bean. It had a really good atmosphere- better than I thought it would. Then today we went to Earthtones after church; they also had an awesome atmosphere. Both served Finger Lakes Coffee, and both had free wireless internet, so we’ll probably be visiting them more often.

We still haven’t found (or actively looked for) any really good bars in the area, but there is a billiard hall that we want to try out sometime.

CES

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Apparently the Consumer Electronics Show is going on in Las Vegas this week, so the blogsphere is reporting on all sorts of cool stuff I don’t need; here are a couple things I saw that I wanted to share:

http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-ces-sony-microdrives-146637.php

http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-ces-eyebud-800-146626.php