All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Archive for May 2006

My mom tries Skype

I just explained Skype to my mom. I setup an account for her, then demonstrated how to dial phone numbers and save them as contacts.
She has family in Canada, Hawaii and the Philippines, but the appeal is the free calling within the US and Canada.
Within minutes, she was talking to her brother in Hawaii using [...]

Customizing Regulus with a header image

If you’re a WordPress.com user, you’ll notice the huge improvements Matt and his crew have made. For awhile, themes were just slowly released, with not much customization. Widgets came along, so that helped a lot. Now, I just realized that the Regulus theme offers one of the biggest customizations people will ultimately want: their own [...]

Have a laugh with some comics

I’ve been subscribed to two comics for awhile now: Dilbert and Pearls Before Swine.
One of the first things I do in the morning is check for the latest comics. With the help of Tapestry Comics, those two comics are available to me in the comfort of Bloglines.
Wait, right now, there’s 143 feeds for comics? Insane!
Anyway, [...]

Getting spied on by the NSA

I try not to get political here (only because I don’t know much about politics), but when I read that some major phone companies have allowed the NSA to collect their phone call records, I couldn’t help but send a mass-email to a number of contacts.
At the Daily Kos, at least two posts have been [...]

Why is Outlook broken?

A coworker asked me, “Outlook is broken - can you fix it?”
I go to her office, asking them to reproduce the problem. So, they use the “Find” feature to try and find an email, types in one search term, then clicks “Go” (or whatever it was). Then, Outlook froze. Okay, so she ends the process [...]