Ever wonder just how much of a problem spam email is? To give you an idea, here in no particular order are the 1,231 IP addresses from which my email server received at least 3 messages sent to invalid addresses within a single 5 minute period over the course of 4 hours.
That sentence may have [...]

A few days ago, John Reese posted the following on Twitter:
“i used to think libertarians were a bit wacky but now I’m really starting to see that a lot of what they believe makes sense / ‘grant me the freedom to do whatever I want unless it infringes on the freedom of others.’ it’s essentially [...]

AWeber is a great service, and for the most part I’m very happy with it. But it does have a few irritating problems. Here’s my list of the worst. Have any pet peeves that aren’t listed? Share them in the comments.
Just Plain Wrong
There’s one feature where my complaint isn’t just a matter of opinion — [...]

I’m running a one week only special on CaRP Evolution and YesTube to raise money to pay our greedy hospital. I’ll get to the deal in just a minute, but first a little background.
A few months ago, my baby boy, Lincoln, got RSV. He spent 3 days in the hospital just in case things took [...]

My experience with taxes this year was mixed (ain’t it always!)
The bad: The IRS sent my tax return back to me asking me to attach a W-2. All of my income is from self-employment (through my LLC), so I have no W-2 wages. My tax return said “0″ on the W-2 line. My only guess [...]

Every once in a while, I remember this movie I saw on TV a few times when I was a kid, but I can never remember what it was called. LazyWeb, help! And while you’re at it, I’ve got another one.
Here’s what I can remember about the first movie:
* The main characters are police [...]

I’ve just posted a new page on Chordata called “Net Pulse News“. It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords.
Google Trends identifies the hottest trends in search — the keywords that massive numbers of people have recently started searching for. When big [...]

For years, I’ve occasionally thought about buying a telescope. A year or so ago, I did some reasearch online and chose $350 reflector, but didn’t buy. Last week, I picked up my first telescope at a local auction for $14. It’s one that used to sell at Walmart for $99, so it’s obviously not [...]

I’ve just released a new revision of the CaRP/WP WordPress plugin that integrates my RSS to HTML converter with WordPress. The new version adds support for the YouTube plugin that I just released for CaRP. Using it, you can display dynamically updating YouTube videos in your WordPress posts and pages.
The videos can be selected either [...]

I’ve just added a YouTube plugin to my RSS to HTML converter script, CaRP.
Using the new plugin, you can display YouTube videos on your website using their preconfigured RSS feeds (for example, recently added, top rated, most viewed, etc.), or you can get a feed for any tag or YouTube user by following the instructions [...]