I know why people host WordPress on their own websites

April 23, 2008 by fredvw

While I’m grateful for the free wordpress account, I think people want more flexibility (i.e. add-ins) than they can get with the hosted (free or paid) sites.  For now, FUBI will continue to be hosted here, but in the future, I may consider moving it to a different URL.  Keep that in mind (both of you readers ;-)

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Olive Garden Birthday Song Revealed

April 23, 2008 by fredvw

Well, it took a couple of days, but I finally found out that the music behind the Olive Garden birthday song (Buona Festa) is actually called “Feniculi, Fenicula” and it comes from a musical written in Italy during the late 1800’s.  Apparently, you can find it on YouTube with a performance by Pavarotti.  My son can now stop calling it the “Kriketskibar” song and bug cleanup in the house will take on a more mundane sense.  Oh, the shame of it all ;-)

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Video On Demand links

April 21, 2008 by fredvw

Okay, I was talking with Rob in the office today and I realized, I haven’t included a lot of links since I just expect people to go out and get their own links.  At the risk of being redundant, I use the following two links for video-on-demand:

  • http://www.hulu.com (actually you can use www.openhulu.com to avoid needing a membership, but the content is more limited and I encourage everyone to use the system.)
  • http://www.joost.com - This is a separate application that you use to view flash video.  We used this one to watch a Star Trek episode called “A Piece of the Action” when our kids were going to do a 1920’s-era murder mystery.  My wife was also happy to watch the pilot episode of MacGuyver, too.
  • http://movies.aol.com - Okay, this one isn’t really video-on-demand in the same way, but they did have some cool videos (include the aforementioned MacGuyver video and some old Bugs Bunny video)

Enjoy,
Fred

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Thinking about the Wii Fit

April 17, 2008 by fredvw

Here’s the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-RVLRRFNE-Wii-Fit/dp/B000VJRU44/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1208463641&sr=8-1

It seems intriguing….

It turns out you *can* open eMessage6 and campaign 6 in Firefox

April 11, 2008 by fredvw

I added a Firefox extension called “IE Tabs” and it works pretty well.  I really prefer Firefox to IE, and I guess that the IE proxies inside the tab.  Tres chic!

I am on my way to Java…

April 10, 2008 by fredvw

I am on my way to Java user trip to night. I believe they are covering CFF. It should be interesting. listen

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Having problems with eMessage6 and AREA tags

April 7, 2008 by fredvw

I don’t know if anyone else is having these kinds of problems, but I wanted to insert an offer into an AREA tag and it doesn’t work like it does in eMessage 3.7.1.  Previously, we could simply replace the href with the emessage tags; however, now that they have completely replaced the anchor tags with new tags, I don’t think I can simply replace the HREF with the content in the custom tags.  Inquiring minds want to know….

Hey a new theme!

April 4, 2008 by fredvw

I needed to change themes in order to add the sidebar. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with this theme, but it’s a start.

I need to figure out…

March 22, 2008 by fredvw

I need to figure out a way for all of my feeds to show up at my WordPress. Things like Twitter, Delicious(?). Anything else needs to be able to be on my WordPress page. I’ve sent a tag a lot(?) from Life Hacker(?) articles as well. I’d like those to show up as well. listen

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Linux on Windows

February 22, 2008 by fredvw

Going to try this one on my PC at work:
http://lifehacker.com/358208/seamlessly-run-linux-apps-on-your-windows-desktop

Allows me to “seamlessly” (or Shamelessly) share apps b/n linux and Windows.  I don’t know if it’s going to be better than using Synergy between my WinPC and LinPC, but it’s worth a try.  Productivity FTW.

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