Doctor Who - The Stolen Earth
July 1st, 2008
So, I just finished watching part 2 of the series 4 finale of Doctor Who and I just got to say.. WOW. This episode was epic. If you haven’t seen it, go and see it now!
ICANN will screw up the internet
June 29th, 2008The internet corporation ICANN is going to mess up the internet by allowing custom top level domains. This means that people are going to be able to have domains like “monkey.balls”.
If domains like this scour the internets this could be tragic. Finding sites will be so much harder. People are going to have to remember both words used in a url *GASP* or where the point goes in certain urls that are split up like “goo.gle”. I can barely remember where the points go in del.ico.us. I’m just too lazy for this to happen. Oh the humanity!! … Okay, maybe that was a little too much, but like I said, I am too fond of the .com, .net, and .org and I’m afraid it will dissipate into the void.. with the daleks and cybermen. 
[via USA Today]
We’re Back!
June 24th, 2008So, about a month ago I forgot to pay GoDaddy to renew the hosting for SnyderBlogs.com and three of my other sites so they took us down. I’ve been spending my free time this past month trying to scrounge up the data I lost from every place I could think of, like feed reading programs and the waybackmachine. I only lost one post and some images so I think I pretty well.
Me and Jon will be posting again on a regular basis. We may add another author to this site quite soon so look for their first post.
Get notifications of webpages, folders, email, etc.. with Specto!
May 24th, 2008With Specto (linux only) you can now get notifications at anytime on your computer of webpages, email, file and folder changes, system process etc. For example this can be very helpful if you need to watch a page, say for homework that your teacher puts up, yet he does not provide a feed link. Instead of checking the site everyday for anything new, I can just wait till Specto tell’s me there’s something new or changed there. Specto is small, simple, and a must have if you want your computer to work for you, not the other way around.
To install specto for Ubuntu simply go to your terminal and type in:
sudo apt-get install specto
Track Your Pizza Order With Linux and Mac
May 24th, 2008
This python script (created by noflashlight.com ) gives you the power to track your pizza order from its beginning as cheese and dough all the way till it comes to your door. So now you know when how long it sits under the heat lamp between the time it comes out of the oven till when the driver leaves Dominoes. Visit http://random.noflashlight.com/ for the download or follow the steps below:
- Make sure you have python installed on your computer.
- Open your handy dandy terminal.
- Use wget to download the python script:
wget http://random.noflashlight.com/scripts/dominos.py - Make the code you just downloaded executable:
chmod +x dominos.py - Call Dominoes and order your pizza.
- Execute the script replacing ######### with your phone number:
./dominos.py ########## - Re run the script every once in a while to update the status of your pizza.
