Archive for the ‘ Around the Web ’ Category

Red Horse Omen

So strange how these two pictures appeared on my Facebook Live Feed. It must be some kind of omen, right? Dionysus must be sending these photos and telling me in the future something like, “I told you so”. [ READ MORE ]

What Cereal Should I Eat?

This is how to apply your MIS 101 decision tree skills. Source: http://eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/ [ READ MORE ]

Time to Vote: Open Web Awards

At last, Mashable’s Open Web Awards is now accepting votes. After a month of nominations, it’s now down to the top five of each category. Anyone can vote as long as you have a Twitter or Facebook account. I’m more interested in the top Facebook game category. The contenders are Pet Society, Fish Wrangler, MouseHunt, Ghost [ READ MORE ]

Pirate Bay Closed Permanently

The torrent tracker giant, Pirate Bay, shuts down for good. After being put on trial earlier this year and rising from the dead despite those setbacks, the top guys from TPB made the hard decision of pulling the plug. Trackers are no longer needed with the advancements in bittorrent protocols; they explained. It’s really sad to [ READ MORE ]

Defaults in Programming

How come whenever we find sample code on the net, when we read geeky books, or whenever we develop, it has one of these. foo Is this poo? Or FU? foo bar Edible? I hope not if it’s  related to the first one I mentioned above. x Why use x out of the 26 letters? It’s not even part of the [ READ MORE ]

Humanity: Epic Fail (on Software Dev)

A blog post by Jon Skeet on how we failed in software development. It points out how we made programming more complex instead of simpler. Had me laughing (in a geeky way) while I was reading it. Note: For programmers only OMG Ponies!!! (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail) [ READ MORE ]

Mashable’s Open Web Awards

Please nominate my favorite Facebook game, Ghost Trappers in this year’s Open Web Awards by Mashable. No, I’m not influencing you to nominate.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers… Putting that aside, the Open Web Awards is now in its 3rd year. Hooray! As an advocate of the power of social media, Mashable in partnership with Motorola [ READ MORE ]

Let’s Rename Earth To Cafe World

I’ve been in and out of the restaurant business. I closed down mine for good a couple of  months ago since I had to concentrate on more important stuff–like blogging??? I’m talking about my Restaurant City account, by the way. Cafe World has the same general game concept but different features and game play. I tried [ READ MORE ]

Google Chrome Video

This is actually the best video I’ve seen in a while. And to top it off, it’s the best software advertisement from what I’ve seen so far. Makes you wish surfing the internet was really like this. Nicely done Motion Theory and Google for producing this video. I love the song also by Tim Meyers. [ READ MORE ]

Fail Whale Strikes Again

The glee and bitterness of this screen. I love the Fail Whale. It makes me laugh for some reason. And after a few seconds, I’ll realize, “Hey, Twitter’s down. Dang!” “Twitter is over capacity.” doesn’t sound correct though. Oh well… my forte is PHP not English. [ READ MORE ]