http://chrispenner.info/blog PC tips, tricks, DIY projects & other miscellaneous ramblings Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/10/20/no-god-trend-is-crashing-twitter/ http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/10/20/no-god-trend-is-crashing-twitter/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:08:02 +0000 chris http://chrispenner.info/blog/?p=470
It started with a slew of religious folk re-tweeting the phrase “Know God… know peace. No God, no peace.” “No God” then became the #1 trending topic, overloading the site. Twitter’s explanation didn’t seem to get through to many offended Christians who were left wondering how “No God” became such a hot topic. UPDATE @ [...]]]> http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/10/20/no-god-trend-is-crashing-twitter/feed/ 0 http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/08/25/microsofts-racist-polish-site/ http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/08/25/microsofts-racist-polish-site/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:43:31 +0000 chris http://chrispenner.info/blog/?p=346
Can you spot the difference between these two images? These are screenshots of Microsoft’s American and Polish sites, respectively. The content is identical, save for the Polish translation and the horribly amateur Photoshop job (If the first glance isn’t funny/terrible enough, take a look at the hands in both photos). Spot the Difference: Click for [...]]]> http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/08/25/microsofts-racist-polish-site/feed/ 0 http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/08/04/bing-vs-google/ http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/08/04/bing-vs-google/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:37:42 +0000 chris http://chrispenner.info/blog/?p=147
After reading an article about how Microsoft's new Bing search engine is gaining in popularity since its launch, I decided to finally try it out. eing a smartass, the string I chose was "why is windows so expensive."]]> http://chrispenner.info/blog/2009/08/04/bing-vs-google/feed/ 0 http://chrispenner.info/blog/2008/11/19/error_creating_error_file/ http://chrispenner.info/blog/2008/11/19/error_creating_error_file/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:22:06 +0000 chris http://chrispenner.info/blog/?p=184
Today my wife and I received our new Palm Centro phones from Sprint via UPS. She got the “old” Centro in pink. I got the newer model in green. Anyway, new phones. I decided to set up the Palm Desktop software so that I could sync my contacts, calendar, etc. with MS Outlook. Everything appeared to [...]]]> http://chrispenner.info/blog/2008/11/19/error_creating_error_file/feed/ 0