Author Archives: Joey Gibson

Netflix Is Keeping Profiles

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Joey Gibson

A couple of week ago, Netflix announced that they were dropping the feature called “profiles.” With profiles, you could setup separate sub-accounts for other family members, and assign some number of DVD’s to each profile. We’re on the four-at-a-time plan, … Continue reading →

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Setup With SliceHost

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Some of you know that I left Jobkabob at the beginning of June, to work for Spectrum K12 School Solutions. It’s going well, thanks. For the past three years or so, my blog has been hosted on a Jobkabob server, … Continue reading →

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McCain Wants My Vote

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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Egregious Spelling Errors

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Yesterday I received a packet in the mail from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online game. I am a charter member or something like that since I joined up really soon after it launched and I might have paid for … Continue reading →

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There Is No End To Democrats’ Lust For Your Money

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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Lesser Evil?

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose for Safari 3.1.1

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Joey Gibson

06/14/2009 Update: It now works with the just-released Safari 4, too. Someone wrote to tell me that MiddleClickClose was no longer working after upgrading to Safari 3.1.1. I hadn’t yet installed the latest version, so this was news to me. … Continue reading →

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Economics Lesson About Gas Prices

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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More Crappy Food In Snellville

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Last night before I went bowling, I decided to get something to eat. I wracked my brain to come up with some place that I haven’t eaten at 900 times recently, and finally settled on Applebee’s on Hwy. 124. I … Continue reading →

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iTunes Should Remember Window Size

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I subscribe to a lot of podcasts, and lately I’ve been subscribing to lots of video podcasts. I love watching GeekBrief in ginormous HD format. But not all of the videocasts come in that large format, so I have to … Continue reading →

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Jason Castro Covers Brudda Iz — And Nails It

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Joey Gibson

On Idol last night, Jason Castro announced that he was going to sing ‘Over the Rainbow,’ as performed by Brudda Iz. When I heard that, I thought, ‘OK, this is either going to be insanely great, or really awful.’ As … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose Updated

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I announced here that I had updated MiddleClickClose to work with Safari 3.1, but that it had problems loading under Safari 3.0. Actually, the problem was that it wouldn’t load on a PPC chip; I was testing on my iBook … Continue reading →

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Death Threats From the “Religion of Peace”

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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MiddleClickClose For Safari 3.1

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Joey Gibson

As I reported two days ago, after I installed Safari 3.1, my MiddleClickClose extension stopped working. Well, I’ve gotten it working again. , but it doesn’t load under Safari < 3.0. So, only install this version if you are using … Continue reading →

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My, What a Large Amount of Virtual Memory You Are Using

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I just checked my Activity Monitor to see how much of my 6 gigabytes of RAM was in use. I was shocked (shocked!) to discover that a Java RMI server program (that I wrote) appeared to be using a bit … Continue reading →

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Safari 3.1 Breaks My Middle Click Close Extension

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If you install the new Safari 3.1, my MiddleClickClose extension stops working. The first time you launch Safari, SIMBL complains that the plugin hasn’t been tested with this version of Safari, but that’s easily fixed by putting the proper version … Continue reading →

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Apple Tells Me “Thanks, But No Thanks”

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Like 10 million other iPhone fanboys, I applied for the Apple iPhone developer program. Today, one week after applying, I received this email Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As … Continue reading →

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I Can Haz SSBB?

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Oh yes, we haz it. Thomas has been playing for hours. I’ve played for an hour to two, myself. It’s very cool. We haven’t played online yet, but we’re working on it. Thomas and I have both created stages using … Continue reading →

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iPhone SDK: No Joy For Me (So Far)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Like 10 bajillion other Mac fans yesterday, I downloaded the iPhone SDK. It took me four tries to get it, but I finally got it. I installed all 5.3 GB of it, and rebooted (reboot? what is this, Windows?) and … Continue reading →

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Sweet Justice

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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