What is Man?

I use Gmail to manage my primary domain. It doesn’t host a webpage, but I use it for e-mail. Google Apps allows me to use Gmail’s slick interface with that domain name. For example, I can enter “mail.whatisman.com” into a browser and it logs me into a Gmail app.
I’m certainly a fan of Windows [...]

I’ve got Windows 7 Pro on my older desktop PC. It installed with only one hitch. The Linksys WMP54G PCI wireless network adaptor doesn’t work on 64bit Windows 7, at least not using the drivers on the Linksys website. I hooked up my Verizon MiFi card, waited for the drivers to auto-install, and got online. [...]

The port interprets infrared noise as keystrokes.

Well, I found this really nifty free software called “Any Video Converter.” The neat thing about it that it converts to just about any format.

…when I past a link for a single blog post into Facebook, the Facebook script sees the invisible icon in the html source code and uses it as a thumbnail. It makes the Facebook post look cool and also is much more eye-catching.

So I’ve had this bug for a while on the blog. If you’re logged in, everything works fine. But for someone not logged in, the right navigation menu column would sink under everything else on the page, and it was a bit centered.
The problem ended up being caused by a misplaced </div> tag in [...]

I just discovered, by total accident, a super neat trick for a long-time annoyance. When I’m writing in Microsoft Word and the red squiggly line for a misspelled word pops up, I usually just backspace and correct the typo. But sometimes I don’t know what the correct spelling is. This means taking my hand [...]

I had an old Thinkpad 570 laptop in the closet, 366Mghz, 192 megabytes of ram, 6 gig hard disk, Windows 2000. It has a dock, but without it, it’s got 1 usb 1.0 port and no optical drive. The 5000 series was at one time a line of premium ultra-portables with a sterling reputation, and [...]

I used to pirate software. Until 2007, every piece of software I used was either pirated, free, or open source. Music wasn’t spared, either. At one point I had nearly 80 gigs of music, most ripped from friend’s CD collections or downloaded. I could write a whole post on how I justified piracy. I came [...]

So I’m experimenting with Windows Live Writer as a manager for this blog. It’s part of the Windows Live suit, which includes Live Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, and a toolbar for access (get.live.com). I don’t really have a use for the rest of those, I already have Outlook for email,  Pidgen for text messaging, and [...]