http://kyleabaker.com Web Technologies, Tips, Tricks and my Life Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:31:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So many birthdays this month! Here's another shout-out...Happy 21st Birthday Brittany...where ever you are! You make me feel old, haha. I'll be 22 soon. :P (I'm pretty sure it's today anyway, couldn't find it on facebook and no wall posts yet...but I remembered something about it being between mine and brandon's) http://kyleabaker.com/2008/07/03/happy-birthday-brittany/ So today has been a pretty typical day. I woke up around 9:30 or 10, got up and took a shower and checked my emails. Oh, I got one Orgoo request last night as well! 10 left if you're interested! So I went out to get a hair cut today and ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/07/02/a-fresh-hair-cut/ Just wanted to give a Happy Birthday shout-out to Brandon today on his 22nd birthday! He's still on the trail, but best wishes for your birthday and the trail B. Make sure you party hard today man! I'm sure we'll all be ready to party when you get back man! http://kyleabaker.com/2008/07/01/happy-birthday-brandon/ I'll bet all of you out there have dealt with your fair share of spam. Everyone gets it, in their email, blog posts and lately even WordPress registrations! I have a tool for handling spam comments on my blog, but what do I do when I get 10's to 100's ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/30/solved-stop-wordpress-spam-registrations/ As many of you may already know, today is the last day that Bill Gates will be working with Microsoft. He will be stepping down from his position with Microsoft and is currently the third-richest man in the world! Microsoft will undoubtedly continue to prosper without Gates of course, but what ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-last-day-with-microsoft/ I've still got 11 invites left for the new email service called Orgoo that integrates all of your favorite instant messaging services into the same window! It's a very cool new email service mainly aimed towards the younger generation, but everyone would love the integrated instant message features that Orgoo ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/24/11-orgoo-invites-left-if-anyone-wants-one/ "Sliders" was a Science Fiction (Sci-Fi) TV series that aired from 1995-2000. It's one of those "oldie, but goodie[s]" if you know what I mean. The tag line sums it up very nicely. Four people just found a gateway to another dimension, but they forgot one problem... how to get back! I'm personally ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/22/sliders-watched-and-reviewed/ Today Opera released a new "stable" build to the public. The latest "stable" version of Opera changed from Opera 9.27 to Opera 9.50. Opera released Opera 9.5 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) just two days ago. Between Opera 9.27 and Opera 9.50, the Opera Desktop Team fixed ~2350 bugs! You ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/12/opera-95-final-released/ Today Jon von Tetzchner, Opera CEO, has officially release Opera 9.5 RC1 to the world. It has been two years since Opera 9 was first released, so you can image the progress and improvements that have been made since then! The version numbering may be a bit confusing, but we all ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/10/opera-95-release-candidate-1/ Although it's not officially summertime yet, the weather here has been exhausting! It's been easily reaching into the 80's and mid-90's here in Western North Carolina, but the temperature down at the state capital have been topping at or near 100 degrees on a fairly regular basis! Today, in the mountains, ... http://kyleabaker.com/2008/06/09/summer-time-weather/