Category Archives: xTreme G33k

Maintenance Plugin, Family Tree, and 3D Chat

I screwed up my sleep schedule tonight by taking a 2.5 hour nap when I got home after work today. My brain’s been locked in half-sleep/ zombie mode for a couple hours, so I did some work on the Family Tree, JK’s Journal, and played with 3-D Chat for the website.
My current family tree software* [...]

Custom Lifehacker RSS Feed

Lifehacker’s RSS feed has been overwhelming me for some time now. It’s one of my favorite sites, but I haven’t had much luck in tailoring the signal/noise ratio, so tonight I’m trying to setup a custom RSS feed, ala these instructions.
So far I’m attempting to follow all posts tagged “Linux, Ubuntu, Xbox, Firefox Tip, [...]

Damn the Lightning! Full Fiber Optic Speed Ahead!

We’re back online at home. Whew. We lost our cable modem (RIP RCA DCM315R) and DVR to lightning almost two weeks ago. We were already scheduled to get FiOS, so we held out getting the old Cox Cable service restored in lieu of the FiOS. Okay, that’s not completely true, but the [...]

New Journal Theme and Martian Robots

I already mentioned that I’m trying out a new Journal theme this weekend; the brunt of that work will happen tonight and tomorrow. The resurgence in Journal utilization has made it obvious that I need to speed things up a bit, and while it could be my database or hosting plan that’s bogging things [...]