27 August, 2008 (20:22) | Sitenews

Came home form work today and as per normal jumped on the computer to check things before grabbing some food and what do I find. But, my site throwing 500 internal server error pages. I have no idea how long the site was down, but by the time I finished eating and cleaning up the [...]
Tags: Blog, mythbusters
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17 August, 2008 (20:00) | Blogging

I’ve been using a couple of different ways to collect visitor stats here on TheGeekReview and while the both work well for collecting just pure daily visitor numbers, and wp-stats integrates well with the blog back end, both methods lack a detail. Enter Google Analytics, when I first looked at Analytics it lacked some user [...]
Tags: Blog, Google, stats
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9 August, 2008 (19:58) | Blogging, Sitenews

Well been fiddling around in Photoshop trying to come up with a layout for the site that I can program on my own, so far this is what I got. It keeps the same basic arrangement that the current theme has but I’ve changed the basic look and color scheme. In the mockup the big [...]
Tags: Blog
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7 August, 2008 (20:01) | Blogging, Computers

I’ve been watching the screencasts over at css-tricks.com and alot of the time he talks about anding something in to the code so the CSS will validate or that the html will be standard compliant. So it see where the state of the blog was before I started working on my self made theme. I [...]
Tags: Blog, Computers, CSS
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1 August, 2008 (07:00) | Blogging, Sitenews

Well today marks an important date in history. It was two years ago today that The Geek Review was launched. To celebrate Russell Crowe* brought cake, and The Geek Review got a new set of clothes. The new theme seems to be working out OK without breaking any of the older posts. I have checked [...]
Tags: Blog, Cake
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27 July, 2008 (20:19) | Blogging, Computers

A couple of days ago I installed MAMP on the Mac in order to do a local install of Wordpress for development. I’ve gotten kind of tired of the current look (theme) of the site and need some way to tryout themes without messing with the live blog. The MAMP and Wordpress install took [...]
Tags: Blog, Mac, theme, Wordpress
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16 July, 2008 (18:24) | Blogging

Found out about this today. Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is a three episode webcast written by Josh Whedon, creator of Buffy and Firefly. Staring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion. It’s kind of hard to explain what Dr. Horrible is but, is part comedy, part superhero / supervillain story, part musical, part love story [...]
Tags: Blog, buffy, Dr Horrible, firefly
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