Don't Back Down: LinkedelicaChad Everett offers political and social commentary sprinkled with technical insight, programming tidbits and anything else that comes up.Amazon Really Blows it with the Leatherman Skeletool CX- March 24, 2008 Back in January (the 18th, I think, in case Amnesia comes calling), I ordered up a Leatherman Skeletool CX from Amazon. The price at the time was $79.85, with free shipping. I was happy, though for perhaps the first time in the history of times I've ordered from Amazon, I was going to have to wait for a while, since they were low on stock. I figured it would be worth the wait for this sweet little tool. As it turned out, the wait would be a long one. On February 5th, I tweeted about how...http://cxliv.org/2008/03/24/amazon_really_blows_it_with_the_leatherman_skeletool_cx.php Change Your Social Security Number at PayPal- March 19, 2008 As I'm recording information for taxes this year, I realize that once again, I've managed to forget to update the account information at PayPal, and the 1099 form has my personal Social Security Number on it, rather than the company's Employer ID Number, which means that I personally will be paying taxes on any interst in the account, rather than the company. To make matters worse, the company taxes are already filed, which means that they have accounted for interest income, so it's like a...http://cxliv.org/2008/03/19/change_your_social_security_number_at_paypal.php 2008 Don't Back Down NCAA Tournament Pick'em- March 17, 2008 The fourth annual Don't Back Down Tournament Pick'em has arrived. You can make your picks now. Thanks again to Yahoo! Sports for providing the brackets, which make it awfully easy for me to keep track of things. This year, the contest is even better, because you can win $5 million for a perfect bracket (not from me, unfortunately), so get those brackets filled out to see if you can win the big prize. There are a few more readers around than last year, so hopefully we'll have a few more...http://cxliv.org/2008/03/17/2008_dont_back_down_ncaa_tournament_pickem.php Web Hosting Bluebook Review- March 6, 2008 I just received an email telling me that I only had a limited amount of time to accept (or decline) a potential review for a site called Web Hosting Bluebook. This is interesting for two reasons - one, because I don't remember being asked to review the site and two, because it's actually the first time I've been asked to review a site. In the interest of disclosure, this is a paid review, but I will give you the full details on what I find out. Ready Here goes. Web Hosting Bluebook bills...http://cxliv.org/2008/03/06/web_hosting_bluebook_review.php Using Feed Digest to Republish Feed Content on Your Site- March 3, 2008 With version 3.31 of Movable Type, the product began shipping with feeds.app lite, which allowed some simple abilities for republishing the content of other feeds on your site, through the use of Movable Type template tags. This plugin was a great step forward, and expanded on earlier plugins that did similar things, but in fact, it is the less-capable sibling of the (much) more powerful feeds.app from Appnel Solutions. The primary difference between the two is that feeds.app lite allows you..http://cxliv.org/2008/03/03/using_feed_digest_to_republish_feed_content_on_your_site.php |