Archive for January, 2008

Why I Use VLC Media Player

Greetings from somewhere in the Caribbean Sea! I'm on Mass Maritime's annual training cruise aboard the T.S. Enterprise, and we're currently steaming through the Caribbean on our way to Panama. On board, when we're not busy with maintenance or training, we spend a lot of time watching movies. I keep my movies on a Western Digital 500GB external hard drive, and I have quite a large collection that I'm always looking to increase. Videos that other people have are often in a variety of...

Five Wordpress Plugins to Make Your Blogging Year Better

As an avid Wordpress user, I have come to rely heavily on some of my plugins. Occasionally I'll browse the Wordpress.org plugins section looking for cool ones to try, but usually I stumble across them trying to solve a problem or make my life easier. I've come up with a list of the ones that I find the most useful, or that are cool and worth having anyway. Google Analytics: This plugin is crucial to me, perhaps above any of the others I use. I love Google Analytics - it's so easy to use,...

Happy New Year!

Happy new...