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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Duke have had success in [...]
Everyone who’s worked with WordPress falls in love with this free, open source blogging / content management system. The engineers who created WordPress gave it the ability to be skinned with themes and you can now find a million themes for your blog. Or with a little effort you can write your own theme as [...]
There is a growing movement on the Internet. That movement is to bring to an end an era. That era is known as Internet Explorer 6. For those who don't know what Internet Explorer 6 is, its called a Web Browser or a program that you use to visit web pages like this. Surprisingly many people don't know what a web browser is, they just know you click on the Blue E to get on the Internet. This program is more commonly known as IE6
Okay every once in a while these Facebook chain notes come around and some are worth playing along with. So here my “3′s of Me” Three names I go by 1. Rob 2. Robbie 3. Dad Three jobs I have had in my life 1. Computer Programmer 2. Photographer 3. Corporate IT Trainer Three places [...]
or flying in the face of grammar and style rules…. To my friends who edit professionally, please take this with the humor its meant to be. I’m making fun of myself more than anything. You are important to me. You make my writing good! Its been a well understood fact that photographers, like me, can’t [...]
I try to walk a mile each day at work. I don’t make this goal as weather, work and errands will get in the way. When I first started, several people busted me for not taking a camera to take photos of the things I was blogging and tweeting about. So I took the camera [...]
I don’t know why NBC even tries these things. They clearly cannot do science based TV. Okay, ER was pretty good on a science side, but every thing else they do is an EPIC FAIL. I didn’t go into this show with a lot of high expectations has other recent NBC shows have bombed, but [...]
Facebook people are at it again. There are several “lists” of things you’ve done, read, etc. floating around and you “tag” others to do their own list and continue the tagging. Its the modern-day chain letter. But these are fun and don’t cost you a first class postage stamp or add too much to your [...]
2 Clicks. Okay it was a few more. I had to click the link on my start page to connect to this blog. Then I had to click on the login link, then the Okay button to login. But when connecting to a blog under WordPress 2.7 you get a link at the top “WordPress [...]
I try to walk a mile at lunch each day giving me a chance to ponder things other than work. I frequently pack my iPod with me. Usually I’m listening to current music: something about girls kissing, a badonkadonk or a black parade. But some times I’ll play the entire album This album, released in [...]
Okay, my wife likes reality TV and I respect that. With there being less and less hockey on to watch as the season winds down and a complete lack of creativity from the writers there are fewer and fewer non-reality choices to choose from. Normally, I surf the interwebs while casually paying attention to the [...]
Raleigh NC — The Carolina Hurricanes have knocked off two teams in their pursuit of the Stanley Cup and they have two to go. In two series they have not had home-ice advantage. In two series they have had to knock off division champions. In two series, the number 6 seeded team has finished off [...]
On the way home from vacation, the Mrs. notified me that we would not be eating in tonight, in particular after wrapping up a 10 hour drive. I’ve been craving some non-KFC fried chicken and well I wanted to go to Golden Corral. I lobbied my cause, she didn’t fight it, so it was time [...]
I should be writing a blog post on http://www.robmiracle.com about today’s Kentucky Derby Festival activities. But I can’t. Go see my photos from Dawn at the Downs here! No I can’t blog now, I’m in major jubilation mode. The Carolina Hurricanes just slapped the New Jersey Devils right out of the play offs in a [...]
Once basketball season ends in Kentucky, life turns towards Kentucky’s other sporting passion, Horse Racing. Kentucky is known as the horse capital of the world, known for its picturesque plank fenced horse farms sprawling over rolling hills of Kentucky Blue Grass. In Kentucky, horses are raced, trotted, shown, jumped and danced. Horses of all breads [...]
As some of you may know I’m traveling to Kentucky for the Kentucky Derby Festival. You can read all about it at http://www.robmiracle.com. Normally, my wife and I prefer to take I-40 from Raleigh to Knoxville and then catch I-75 north. When visiting my side of the family first, this is the best route. However [...]
Twitter. Tweets. Tweeple twittering. Its all over the place like the yellow pollen covering every inch of your car and house. You can’t escape from it. Twitter (wikipedia) hit the mainstream and is no longer just some silly geek toy with a silly name. In the past couple of months, Twitter has gone from geek-stream [...]
Amazon.com Geek’s are notorious for “hacking”. In their defense the terms “Hacker”, “Hacked”, etc. have gotten a bad rap because its been associated with people who do bad things using “Hacks”. Its like the old saying “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. The truth is, hacking isn’t bad, its bad people who use them [...]
