Zigology — The Zen of Zig

Tips on how to upgrade to Windows 7 RC

May 14, 2009

Last week, Microsoft made the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) available for the public to download and try for a year (the RC expires on June 1, 2010). I decided to take the plunge and try it out figuring that it couldn’t be any worse off then my current Windows Vista.
I’m going to take a [...]

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Wii System Menu Updated to Version 4.0

April 30, 2009

While on Nintendo’s support website researching a non-related topic, I ran across an announcement from the Wii-makers that an update for the Wii System menu was released on March 25, 2009. Even though I constantly read the tech blogs every day, I must have missed this one. This is an update I have been waiting [...]

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Old School Technology Meets Old School Classic Tunes

April 28, 2009

I remember the days of the Atari,the TRS-80 (affectionately called the TRaSh-80), the TI-99, large floppy disks and so forth. My first computer was an old Apple ][ Plus with 48k of memory that my dad had purchased back in 1979, I spent many a night at age 9 writing my first text-based program in [...]

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Take the John P. Health Challenge

April 13, 2009

My longtime friend, John P. over at OneMansBlog, has started a health challenge.
I invite you to join me, John and others in getting healthy!
I’ll be posting my results here along the way.
My goal? Lose 25 lbs in 12 weeks – no fad diets, no diet drugs, just old-fashioned exercise and eating well.
You can find details [...]

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Las Vegas churches accept gambling chips

March 5, 2009

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas but there are more Catholic churches than casinos.
Not surprisingly, some worshipers attending services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed.
Since they get chips from many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect [...]

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Dropbox – my favorite free online file storage

March 5, 2009

I wanted to take a minute and share one of my favorite and most used applications – Dropbox.

I love telecommuting. I try to work out of my home whenever I can. One of my largest problems in the past was synchronizing my files. If I was working at the office and decide to take a project home, I would either have to email it to myself, store it on a USB drive, or copy it to my laptop – all which take time.

No more! Now I just use my Dropbox.

What is Dropbox?

Dropbox is an online file storage application that

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Help sheets for PHP, CSS, and HTML

March 4, 2009

Developing in PHP, CSS, or HTML?
Always having to look up a certain tag or command?
The folks over at GoSquared/liquidicity have put together FREE help sheets for these 3 languages with hopes of more to come.
These help sheets are very nicely designed and easy to read…perfect size for printing them out and hanging them on your [...]

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The New Supercouple

February 26, 2009

Supercouples have come a long way in American culture. Currently, the most noteworthy couples include such pairings as:

“Bennifer” – Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
“TomKat” – Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
“Brangelina” – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
“Jate” – Jack and Kate from ‘Lost’
“LoVe” – Logan and Veronica Mars
and even “Billary” – Bill and Hilary Clinton

Wikipedia lists [...]

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Redneck Carnival Ride

February 25, 2009

I was going through some old email and found this awesome video clip which I uploaded to share with everyone. Now let’s break down the scenario.
Hypothetical situation here.
Imagine it’s a beautiful day outside. A group of friends have gathered and decide to create some entertainment. They rummage through any materials they have on-hand. They gather [...]

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