thesleepygeek

This is too geeky :)

I really feel strange asking you to come on over and give me information but I really do write this blog for you and would like to make sure it’s of value to you.

I wasn’t at home all weekend so I couldn’t immerse myself in Gnomedex and the Olympics. A cottage weekend with the family trumped geeking out, and it was awesome. I did have some time to reflect however on what I want to do with my blog, what goals I want to accomplish by blogging and [...]

I was looking to add some RSS feeds to my sidebars for popular news sites that I view daily, or close to daily. I looked at using the RSS widget that is included in Wordpress but it is very limited and I wanted something more customizable, which I found on KB Advanced RSS Widget.
Adam R. [...]

Of course when you log into the dashboard for your Wordpress installation it will scream at you to update if you are not already at the newest version. After looking at that message for a few weeks, I thought it was time.
The easiest way to upgrade your installation is to follow their installation/upgrade instructions. They [...]

I was looking around on Viewzi after Chris Pirillo mentioned it on twitter today and usually when I do a search for the first time on a new service I search for “Sleepy Geek”. This one came out kind of interesting because I ended up finding a digg article mentioning Sleepy Geek. Totally unrelated to [...]

Wow! I was poking around the net tonight. I like to watch a few shows over at Revision3 and has just finished this week’s Tekzilla when I got a “Error establishing a database connection” error. I did some refreshing and eventually ended up with this notice, but it looks an awful lot like a replacement [...]

I have wanted to set up an IRC channel for the website. I plan to have a video stream eventually (very distant future) and I wanted to have the chat channel up and running when I am ready for that. I have looked at a number of options and in the end I feel Wyldryde [...]

I was able to add the option to digg my articles to the blog. Each post on the main page has the button as well as each post if accessed individually.
This post is more a test for me. I am curious what happens to the code when it is pushed through RSS. If it [...]

I have been waiting for Chris to release his new social media theme called WicketPixie for a couple of weeks and it looks like he might have to put that off for a bit while he helps out his folks. So try and get something working that looks a little nicer than the plain one [...]