Archives for the 'Off-Topic' Category
Cranking Widgets Theme Updated! [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I hope everybody is doing well, and thanks for hanging in there during the last few weeks.
Just wanted to invite everybody (especially those of you reading this via your favorite RSS reader) to come by and take a gander at the new look. I’ve completely redone the layout for this site, the [...]
Top 1 Thing To Keep Your Toddler Away From [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Your laptop computer.
This is a picture of my Macbook after my 2.5 year old son got his hands on it:
As you can see, he managed to remove roughly two-thirds of the keys on the keyboard. I wasn’t happy
But, thanks to my new friend Gab at the Irvine Spectrum Apple Store, all of [...]
The Twitter Drinking Game [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Let me be honest with you - last week’s drinking game (in honor of Friday Fun) that dealt with the television show House, M.D. was, frankly, a dud. I did my best, but it kind of sucked. So, I’m here to redeem myself with a little pre-Friday Friday Fun. That said, let’s [...]
The House, M.D. Drinking Game [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Some of you may remember the moderately popular Law & Order Drinking Game from a few months back. Sitting around with my wife coming up with marginally esoteric (yet regular enough to work) was a complete blast. And since House is just about on equal footing with Law & Order in terms of [...]
Celebrating Cranking Widgets’ First Birthday [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Sure doesn’t seem like it, but today marks the one year anniversary of the first post on this here blog. Wow.
I must admit, this blog is doing better than I would’ve imagined way back then. We’re doing a respectable 3K+ subscribers and roughly a thousand pageviews per day. And while that’s child’s [...]
Friday Fun: Find me on Facebook [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
While I’m still on the fence with regards to the actual value of facebook, you can add me as a friend here (apparently only after you login). Unless I actively dislike you, I’ll add you as a friend and we’ll do facebook stuff. It’ll be grand.
That is all - have a great weekend!
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Why Digg and Reddit are Doomed (and Metafilter Isn’t) [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I’d hardly call myself an internet journeyman or anything, but I’ve been around “the cloud” for several years now. In that time, I’ve learned a few things about people, specifically how they act on said web. Frankly, the Internet has a way of unraveling some of the best and brightest (as well as [...]
So I Got a New Tattoo… [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Nothing productivity-related here, kids. But I got a new tattoo last night (first one in about 10 months or so):
Nora, for those of you who don’t know, is my little girl (almost 4 months old already - sheesh).
And if you want to see a nearly-exhaustive gallery of my tattoos, you can do [...]
12 Easy Ways to Spice Up Your Weekend [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
It’s easy to get caught up in the rat race. Weeks turn into weekends and, before you know it, it’s back to work. You could swear that you just left the office as you’re pulling into the parking lot on Monday morning. It can be downright depressing.
The good news is there are [...]
It Only Comes Once a Year… [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Original post here: brett