Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Setting Custom Game Icons in Desura

I just discovered Desura’s Linux client and, given the opportunity to have a DRM-free package repository system for my Humble Bundle games, I jumped at the chance. Of course, I still wanted to keep all my games together in one … Continue reading

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My Sites: Now 100% Google-free (FeedBurner excepted)

I’ve been meaning to minimize Google’s ability to track me and my visitors for quite a while now, but this post about Google+ which I stumbled across recently came as an appropriately timed reminder. I’d like to announce that every … Continue reading

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WordPress: Flushing Spam Comments Quickly

While I love a well-configured copy of Spam Karma 2 as an effortless way to keep my blog free of spam, it doesn’t seem to have a way to automatically purge/expire comments after they sit in the spam bin for a … Continue reading

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Open-Source Licensing For The Lay Programmer

When trying to get a new project off the ground, there’s no doubt that community is important, but from all the stuff I’ve run across, one of the least understood and most important aspects of doing so seems to be … Continue reading

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Second-Tier Cartoon Classics and The Effects of Perspective

I just discovered something rather interesting about the cartoons I and those of my generation grew up with. If you ask us about companies, everyone can probably name the top-tier ones: Disney, Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbera… and deservedly so. Walt … Continue reading

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A Few New Projects Up on GitHub

Over the last few days, I’ve been trying to clean out a bunch of old TODO notes. One of the more procrastinated ones has been to tidy up as many of my in-progress projects as possible and get them up … Continue reading

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Cleaner Firefox Context Menus Using Stylish

Since the Firefox Menu Editor extension doesn’t get along with the new HTML5 context menu support in Firefox 8 and up (it prevents site-added entries from appearing with no option to allow them), I thought I’d whip up a few … Continue reading

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