Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

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Interesting search terms

I (generally) monitor my site statistics with Google Analytics. I’m just curious to know how people get to my site and blog. My blog visits via search engine are going up, and just like Godwin’s Law, as you get more visits from search engines, the likelihood of seeing some very odd search terms approaches 1. [...]

Apple fails

The iTunes Store is down, no doubt getting slammed by all those new iPhone activations today. People can’t activate their new iPhone 3G and current iPhone/iPod touch owners can’t upgrade to 2.0. I’m one of those current owners. In lieu of going in the other room to a computer running Windows to keep trying myself, [...]

Answer this question

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Joe Lowe, originally uploaded by massmediameltdown. Does Joe Lowe not look straight up like Zach Dean in this picture? Those of you who read this and know him, with his bug-eyed [...]

No internet is teh suck.

Watch out, this is quite a long one… I can write a lot when I have nothing else to do. So it’s midnight and I’m at my mom’s house, about to go to bed. I collected trash early tonight and was intent on NOT sticking around. I also had to give my 8125 back today, [...]

So I have Linux working on my laptop. FINALLY.

HP is a staunch non-supporter of Linux on their Pavilion laptops, I’m guessing. After four tries I have managed to install BLAG 60000 and keep it from locking up while booting. I’m having problems with high-speed USB devices, but Bluetooth works and I can get on the internet using my cell phone, mimicking a dial-up [...]

I didn’t know you could post by mail with WordPress.

That’s pretty cool. Too bad I’ll probably never use it…

Oh my god.

Read this news article. The American people are stupid. http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/radio-hoax-exposes-anti-muslim-sentiment/20061203153809990001

My domain names/their expiration dates; indicating those I plan on dropping in red

ask-anything.org (expires 11/30/2007) bonsairobot.com (expires 9/3/2007) broadcastmypodcast.net (expires 3/17/2007) deeinabox.com (expires 7/6/2007) fragforjes.us (expires 12/22/2007) geekchat.us (expires 9/1/2007) moshwith.us (expires 6/10/2007) nedrub.com (expires 6/23/2007) podmediaunited.com (expires 5/22/2007) podsaferadio.net (expires 5/22/2007) reallybadchannel.com (expires 7/28/2007) snakesonaninclinedplane.com (expires 8/23/2007) worldwars3.net (expires 5/26/2007)

So I'm waiting for my laundry to finish.

I need to start going to bed at a semi-normal time. I didn't get out of bed until … like … 4:30 this afternoon. I'd been up for a long time but I was just too lazy to get out of bed. Digital headphones rule your mother. I don't know if you folks remember the [...]

I should probably have a more friendly error message.

On my other site, www.nedrub.com, I have a section of little things I have collected/written that let you play around with your MySpace profile. One of them that I have finally released the source to is the one that converts an arbitrary string of text into a bunch of color bars. I wrote the code [...]