The Omnigeek

crystal numbers from Crestock Royalty Free Images

Today as I was archiving old email I got an idea to figure out just how much information I created or processed for the year.
I’m an e-mail pack rat. I keep most every message sent to me. I do not keep spam, most mailing list messages, etc. [...]

Christmas Tree: Red-Green from Crestock Images

From the entire OmniGeek family we wish you and yours a Happy Holiday Season and Prosperous New Year!

Portable Office from Yuri Arcurs Website

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been working on a PowerPoint presentation for an upcoming training session for my day job. I’m using Microsoft Office 2005’s PowerPoint on a recently upgraded to Snow Leopard (10.6.1) MacBook Pro and I’ve had a couple of odd crashes that I’ve not [...]

Clock from Images

One of the interesting challenges that a lot of people have is being punctual. We tend to run late and unless you live in Key West, where things run on Island Time where what time you show up, just doesn’t matter. People even have trouble guessing how much time has elapsed [...]

Santa woman holding a gift isolated on white background from Yuri Arcurs Website

We have long envisioned Santa Claus as a jolly fat man in a red suit with elves and magical reindeer spending their lives making wooden trains and so on.
Well that was the old Santa who made toys for your parents. Today, [...]

 
Today I learned about a new Wordpress Plugin called “Freebie Images” from http://www.freebieimages.com/.
The plugin is provided by Crestock.com, an online photo stock agency that normally sells its stock photos for use. But they make some good high quality images available for free to bloggers.The plugin shows up when you write a new post or [...]

A friend pointed me to this today and I just had to share it with my geek-kin:
Jones Limited Edition Spellcasting Soda

These look awesome! Go buys some for your geek friends including me!!!!

Needless to say, the water cooler talk at almost every office today wrapped around the latest episode from Kanye West during the MTV Video Music Awards where he interrupted Taylor Swift just as she started to give her acceptance speech for her first Moon Man trophy.
If you haven’t seen/heard about it:

Huffington Post
Kansas City Star
MTV (Self [...]

and 4 reasons you should be using TweetDeck anyway.
The newest release of TweetDeck came out yesterday, September 9th and it included a lot of new features.
For those that do not know what TweetDeck is, it is a Twitter “client” that runs as an application on your computer rather than using Twitter through their website. [...]

Full Disclosure: I’m a born and bred Kentuckian. I’ve lived here in the heart of the Atlantic Coast Conference for 10 years. I have no loyalty for any school’s athletics in the ACC. I respect UNC/Chapel Hill and Duke’s basketball program for the success that they have earned. UNC and [...]