May 2007

The Archives

• Rogue Bytes

  Court case turned upside down because of a blog

  05.31.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Boston Globe ran a story today about a Pediatrician who was betrayed by his very own blog while defending himself in a malpractice suit involving the death of one of his patients.
  His name is Robert P. Lindeman. Apparently, the case was leaning in his favor, at least until the opposing counsel sprung the following [...]

• Code & Design

  Scratch – Interactive programming language

  05.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Scratch is a new programming language developed at M.I.T. and specifically geared towards kids. Instead of using the conventional syntax based methodology, Scratch employs colorful building blocks (objects) which users can drag and drop. Each of these blocks has different attributes, and when combined with other blocks, users can alter the functionality of their program [...]

• Rogue Bytes

  I’ve reached the end

  05.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was surfing around last night and I came across this site.
  Finally!
  I guess I’m done. It’s been nice knowing all of you. I’m going outside now.

• Rogue Bytes

  Public Service Announcement: It’s “WWW”

  05.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  It seems these days, that I am hearing more and more people say WW.something.com. It drives me crazy.
  It’s W W W people! Three W’s. It stands for the World Wide Web.
  See? It’s not World Wide or Wide Web or World Web.
  World Wide Web!
  or as the Brits call it,
  World Wide Web!
  In fact, if you’re going [...]

• Cyberculture & the Net

  bubbleguru.com

  05.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is the best. Bubbleguru.com allows you to create a video right from their website and embed it into your website as a little video pop-up bubble. And you know how much we all like pop-ups, right?
  It’s completely free and it takes only a few minutes to get a new video on your site. I [...]

• Computers & Technology

  Two great Mac programs: Journler and Quicksilver

  05.15.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Testing Journler’s blogging abilities — If you see this, it worked. Yay!
  For the last few days I’ve been messing around with a great program for the Mac called Journler. It’s like a journal on steroids. It has all the basic features you would expect from journaling software, but then takes it to a whole other [...]

• Rogue Bytes

  10 ways to combat procrastination

  05.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ll write this tomorrow…

• How To...

  How to make a Ninja mask out of a T-shirt

  05.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Have you ever been sitting at your desk thinking to yourself, “Man, I wish I brought my Ninja mask to work today.” Yeah, me too. Well thanks to the teachings of Ninja master Vern Reid, there is a quick and easy way to create your very own Ninja mask using an ordinary T-shirt. MacGyver would [...]

• Cyberculture & the Net

  Fully customize your Netvibes

  05.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  You can now create your very own customized Netvibes theme. Thank God!
  Here’s the thing, I am a Netvibes addict — I honestly don’t remember what life was like before Netvibes came along. The only problem, Netvibes really isn’t prettiest thing to look at. At least not until now.
  Read the full article on the [...]

• Rogue Bytes

  My evil last name

  05.02.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was shopping around for new domain names, as I do from time to time, and I thought I’d check on sinclaire.com. I already own robertsinclaire.com, my name, but I thought that sinclaire.com would make a nice addition to my ever growing domain name collection. As suspected, the name was already snatched up. But what [...]