Archive | April, 2008

The Pope Grinds Sonnnnnnnnn

April 15, 2008 0 Comments

The Papal Skateboard


Grinding for God: Pope to Get 'Official Papal Skateboard' from Youths NEW YORK (CNS) -- When Pope Benedict XVI returns to the Vatican, he'll be toting a gift not generally associated with an 81-year-old pontiff. He'll take home the "official papal skateboard," a gift from the youths of New York.The gift and a contest to design it started with a remark made by a teen member of the skateboard club at St. Elizabeth Parish in Washington Heights, a hilly neighborhood in northern Manhattan.

Father Peter Pomposello is a skateboarder and the parochial vicar at St. Elizabeth. As he recalled it, he was talking about the papal visit with the club members and they began to ask him questions about why the pope was coming and what he would do in New York.

"I said, 'We pray with him and we give him gifts,'" he said, "and one kid, without missing a beat, said, 'Let's give him a skateboard!'"

Source: http://www.uspapalvisit.org/day_1220.htm

This is pretty much the most rediculous thing I’ve ever heard. Imagine if the Pope busted out some flatland tricks upon being handed his Papal Skateboard? That would be dope.

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Wiimote Powered Smart Board

April 15, 2008 0 Comments

Smartboards rule. I’ve always wanted one in my home. But they’re a couple thousand dollars. Johnny Lee in the above video shows how pretty much anyone can make their own Smartboard out of a Wiimote. Based on his results it looks like it works well enough for those who would like to try out a Smartboard without investing the $$$ in buying one.

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The Boss Meets Vista SP 1

April 10, 2008 0 Comments

Microsoft sure knows how to make those rediculous marketing videos.

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WordPress MU for the U

April 9, 2008 0 Comments

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 WORDPRESS. You all know I’ve been a fan of this blogging platform for quite sometime. WordPress released a while back a new version of its platform called WordPress MU . WordPress allows for hundreds of WordPress blogs to be run off of the same sever installation. From an administrative end this makes life much easier as you only have to upload one copy of a theme, one plug-in, etc. if you want to make it available for all of your users. Thinking from a University stand-point, it allows a department to offer “websites” to its students, faculty, and staff with great ease. Recently one of my co-workers, John Lemasney, made a pitch to the IT Dept. at Rider University on WordPress MU and its benefits to a University such as Rider. He did a wonderful job presenting it and it can be viewed here.

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