St. Louis History: I Challenge You to a Duel!
I haven't made a history post in a while, so I thought I'd post another little known fact about St. Louis history. On August 26, 1856 Benjamin Gratz Brown, a newspaper editor, future United States Sen...
What Will Happen to Flickr?
Ever since Microsoft began its attempt to takeover Yahoo I started thinking about the future of Flickr. That's really the only Yahoo service I use (and I pay for). Microsoft does not have a good histo...
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Here is a great article article from Scientific American. It's a shame when people throw away logic for fairy tales, myths, and fables. I have to wonder where this country is going. Seems each year a...
There's a Whole Lotta Sleepin' Goin' On
So, at around 4:30 this morning Missouri and Illinois experienced an earthquake that registered 5.2 on the Richter scale. Everyone on the news and at work this morning was talking about it. I slept th...
Feedburner Broken API
For a few weeks Feedburner's API has been broke. If I try to pull the statistics of the title and URL of my posts it comes back "NO TITLE." The statistics package I use, mint, has a Feedburner pepper...
Domain Switching
I'm considering moving my blog over to pieceofshep.com. This was where my blog was originally set up long ago (maybe four years ago). The domain fits better with my blog's title obviously. The only th...
Wanted: More Real Estate
I love my MacBook. I love it more than my previous Compaq laptop. It's so much lighter, thinner, and well, OSX is much better than Windows. The reason I went with a MacBook and not a MacBook Pro was b...
A Disappearing Community
One of the things that has bugged me over the past year or so with WordPress is that the community seems to be disappearing. Some of the developers have left to create other software and some have jus...
Movie Boredom
I don't know what it is but I've been really bored with the movies I've been watching lately. Even independent movies, which have become my favorite movies over the past couple years, haven't kept my...
I'm 25
Well, I'm officially 25. Yesterday was my birthday and now I'm a quarter of a century old. I had a good birthday. My parents and sisters got me exactly what I asked for and my mom cooked one of my fav...
Bush Censorship
Bush continues to be a shining light for democracy and freedom. Now he's censoring information about abortion on health websites. It never ceases to amaze me how religious this moron is and is so agai...
The Last Hurrah
Sunday is my last hurrah. I will be turning 25, the last good year. What I mean by this is this is the last year that something somewhat major happens. 16 you get your license, 18 you can vote, 21 you...
Memories
You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I don't remember being born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. Oh wait,...
The Boys are Back in Town
Today (unless it gets rained out by the major storms hitting the area this afternoon) is opening day for the St. Louis Cardinals. It should be an interesting season for the Redbirds, that's for sure....
New Theme and New Version
As you probably know by now if you're a WordPress user, WordPress 2.5 came out today. Along with that, WordPress.org received a redesign. I won't say much about the new version, as it seems to be the...
I Don't Listen to Rap
I don't listen to rap. I used to. In the '90's I listened to Tupac, Snoop, Tha Dogg Pound, etc. That time has come and gone. I still will listen to rap from the 1990's. It was a good era, in my opinio...
Installing Ubuntu with Wubi
I installed the Ubuntu Hardy Heron release onto my desktop via wubi. This isn't a how-to on how I did that. You don't need a how-to, the installation was that easy. You burn the cd, put it in the tray...
PhoenixBlue for Habari
Last night and today, with the help of the good folks in the Habari community, I ported the PhoenixBlue theme that I released for WordPress over to Habari. You can check the theme out in action over a...
The Week of New Music
This has been a great week for me for new music. It's been so long since I've gotten some new music, so I've been keeping my ears busy with CunninLynguists' Dirty Acres and Wyclef Jean's The Carnival...
It's 3 AM
This is Shep and I approve this message: It's 3 AM and something terrible just happened. Somewhere, someone is trying to call me. Unfortunately, my battery has died. Instead of hearing my voice, the c...