Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries for the ‘Web’ Category

The official Facebook app for Android: much to be desired

I’m glad to see that Facebook finally cleared up their bad blood with Google and at least put some sort of official app out on the Android Market. One small problem: it sucks horribly.

This is pretty much all you get. You can see your News Feed, your own wall, and you can upload photos from [...]

I ain’t no follow-back boy

I promise I will never again use a title as lame as this.
Anyway, I’m working on a few criteria to use when determining whether or not to return the favor when someone follows me on Twitter. Most people I will follow back. You must remember the key word there is “people”. Bots get the boot, [...]

Ohai there

It’s been so long since I blogged last. This will be interesting.
A lot of things around me are falling apart. Common Technologies is all but gone and I’m the one tasked with making sure the hosting customers get somewhere they’re taken care of. This somewhere will probably be DreamHost for most of them. Others currently [...]

Twitter makes The Daily Show

Old Man Stewart needs to learn how this thing works.

The Street View black hole

Unsurprisingly, I have a beef with Google. I am no stranger to beefs with Google. However, this one is a bit more vain than previously.
Owensboro recently was blessed by the Google-gods with Street View. Exciting, exciting, exciting. What does one do upon their first visit to Street View? They look for their house. However, I [...]

Shuffling … again

Hey, if you’ve read my blog before I want you to look at your browser’s location bar. Notice how that little blog/ thing is gone now?
I decided I should start using a CMS but I didn’t want to lose my blog. Therefore, I figured I should take a page out of Brad Turcotte’s book and [...]

WorldWars

I run this game right now. I’ll admit, it doesn’t have a large player base as of yet.  At the most, we have 20 people playing and maybe four teams. If you are even remotely interested in text-based games, give this game a try.
WorldWars is an extremely old game, though the format has changed a [...]

About Kentucky and the internet gambling issue

I voted for Governor Steve Beshear last year.
Not only is this a testament to how good of a job I thought he could do (and I still think he is doing), but the fact he’s in office shows that a lot of Kentuckians thought he was an improvement over his predecessor.
I think Governor Beshear has [...]

You’ve got to be kidding me

It seems to me like the McCain campaign is just descending to new levels when it comes to making their case for the presidency. I was looking through my Facebook news feed earlier, when Steve Metzger posted a link to an article on Politico. I was treated to an advertisement for the McCain campaign, and [...]

Elastic in nature

My lack of sleep over the past two days caught up with me today. I passed out for a good 12 hours or so and was finally up at about 4:15 this afternoon. It’s like embedding a basketball into a wall, attaching it to your head via bungee cord, and then walking away from the [...]