• Geek Out! - Uncategorical Weirdness

    425-390-8105 Is Probably the ANTI Do Not Call Database

    November 21, 2011 - By 

    I received a call at work from a Renton WA number, and immediatly after got a spam text message. When I called the Renton number back, it was a voicemail saying “Welcome to the Do Not Call database. If you would like to be added to the database, enter your 10-digit phone number.” Note, no “Federal,” no mention of a US governmental entity. So I assume that it was actually an opt-in database for phone spammers, based on a bit of Googling around as seen below. One commenter remarked that it’s probably “out of country” spammers using some kind of…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    How One Utah Deals With Trolls: Into The Bucket!

    November 20, 2011 - By 

    Be sure to check back to see if/how this develops. This post shall serve as collection station; a trash bucket for the uniformed, poorly-sourced or offensively-stupid comments of angry right-wingers, bigots, racists, misogynists or anonymous trolls. This collection shall become a compost heap of sorts where these comments, as designated by OneUtah authors, will over time, fester, boil and decay until finally merging into a steaming pile of something that smells a lot like the abject suffering, socioeconomic injustice and murder of the innocent wrought upon us by blind obedience to the evil masters, politicians, pundits, corporations, false prophets, demagogues…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-11-20

    November 20, 2011 - By 

    Okay, now what did I miss? Be concise. # RT @guardiannews Warren Buffett buys $10bn IBM stake http://t.co/LFKEAipW # Retrained on something that, once again, is only working in the training room. And now we go back to the old way while we wait for IT. # Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Urban Rider #bike http://t.co/EAkUI0V6 # Jonathan Guyer: The Mendacious Mr. Netanyahu? #israel #nuance http://t.co/0QRIYG7K # Delta: Beware of bogus e-mails, postcards – http://t.co/xOOMbaE6 http://t.co/z9AxQSw6 # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-11-13

    November 13, 2011 - By 

    RT @LinBrehmer "Michael Vick just winked at me. Awkward." # RT @LinBrehmer "Down the rabbit hole. We're on the air." // Helmets and safety glasses, everyone. # Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about // Shared via #FEEDDLER #sharebros http://t.co/9nTrvtbO # I just used #Shazam to discover I'm The Slime by Frank Zappa. http://t.co/NFwo0ym0 # Snow flurries. Here we go again. #fb # I just used #Shazam to discover Blow Your House Down by U2. http://t.co/UlMjeEk8 # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Fixed a display error all by myself

    November 11, 2011 - By 

    This is just a memo as to how I finally fixed a display error on the Holy Moly website. Something I did recently, probably related to social plugins, caused the body to overflow to the right. There were big scroll bars at the bottom, and it looked terrible. Tl;dr: the width in a Facebook Connect button I was using was set to 450px, but I was using it in a 200px sidebar. My family members (except for my husband David) should stop reading here.

  • Geek Out! - The Never-Ending Bloga - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Not so Simple: Simple Facebook Connect « WordPress Plugins

    November 11, 2011 - By 

    I finally got Simple Facebook Connect working between the St Nick’s webpage and the Facebook page, mostly. It was both simple and not simple: Facebook had changed the look of their Apps page, and there is more than one Apps page. So one “how to install this app” tutorial I tried to follow was visually outdated, but a text update had been added at the bottom. The plugin developer had not bothered to remove screenshots on an old blog post on his site, but added a terse update noting that the instructions in the plugin readme.txt file and on the…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Music

    Hey SEB! Alasdair Fraser And Natalie Haas Ann Arbor Nov 13

    November 10, 2011 - By 

    Attention, SEB!! A really great folk duo is playing in Ann Arbor this weekend at The Ark. If you like Scottish fiddle with a wee bit of percussive cello, don’t miss them. My husband David and I happened to catch a show on a vacation to Maine (they tour incessantly), and it was one of those rare moments of discovery. Hope you see this notice, if folk music’s your thing. 13 Ann Arbor MI The Ark Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas 734-761-1451 Tickets, Info “. . . the expressive gamut from deep Celtic melancholy to joyful jig, his fiddle imitations…