I had a hard time turning off my inner geek last week in church when the pastor opened up his sermon with a factoid about John 3:16 being the most popular search query on January 8th, 2009 when Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow wore the verse on his eye black at the BCS National Championship Game. Upon returning home, I thought I'd do a little fact checking, not that I … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
Product Review: Sprint’s Airave Femtocell
The inside of my apartment was a cell phone dead zone (cue creepy music left-over from Halloween) and I've written about the problem before. My first attempt at a solution, the zBoost zPersonal Cell Phone Signal Booster, fell flat and didn't do anything to boost my signal (in fact, it was hard to tell if it was doing anything at all). Fortunately, Amazon allowed me to return it … [Read more...]
How to Take Down a Copyright-Infringing, Scammy Site
I took down PCwilleasy.co.cc! There, I'll admit to it. I am the one who did it. I know this might disappoint the 1500 followers the pcwilleasy Twitter account still has, but it was for everybody's best. Here's the why: PCwilleasy was a copyright infringing site. It copied articles word for word from legitimate sites and often displayed the images, hotlinking them from the … [Read more...]