Trust and Lying

by Scott on July 19, 2010

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The Big Bald Guy is Back!

by Scott on June 19, 2010

My hiatus from BigBaldGuy, if anyone noticed, has been due to spending a lot of my time working on St. Mary’s website, as well as getting the site up for my new venture. Yes, I’ve been busy with other priorities but now I’m back. I thought the release of WordPress 3.0 would be as good a time as any to renew my commitment to posting regularly about my interests in all things geek, gadgets and social media.

The date of my last post on BigBaldGuy.com was February 17th, heralding the announcement of Google Buzz. At that time I was, and still am, excited about Buzz. It got a bad rap in the tech sector for the way it was rolled out within Gmail, but its features are awesome and getting even more awesome.

As you’ll see, I use Buzz primarily to share items of interest from Google Reader. I use a WordPress plugin called Google Buzz ER to share my latest Buzz in this blog. You’ll see the attractive widget in the sidebar, with its images and clear attribution with a link to the source.

Subscribe to my feed and come along for the ride. Feel free to share things you find interesting in your blog, and let me know when you do so I can be sure to follow you too. I’ll be spiffing up the site header with a nice image and I’ll be doing some design tweak over the next couple of weeks. I’ve learned a few tricks using my new theme of choice, Thesis 1.7. Highly recommended.

I’m very happy to be back!

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Social Networking

I’m Loving the Buzz

February 17, 2010

Google Buzz is a Twitter/Facebook type of sharing service in Gmail. You can communicate and share items of interest with your Gmail contacts and others you meet on Buzz. Conceptually, Buzz works very much like Facebook. Buzz came out of nowhere on February 9th. No one, I mean NO ONE, saw Buzz coming. Google kept [...]

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Social Networking

Knoxville Geek Breakfast Brings Community Advocates Together

June 18, 2009

The monthly Knoxville Geek Breakfast is joining forces with other Knoxville community advocates to promote community building and geekdom within the greater Knoxville area. Today’s breakfast had representatives from Knoxville Overground, Entrepreneurs of Knoxville, the new JustUsLeeg.com, and the soon to be legendary CodeStock event. We shot some video of each of these folks briefly [...]

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Social Networking

Austin Geek Breakfast at SXSW

March 16, 2009

The first Austin Geek Breakfast was held yesterday morning during SXSW. Even though it took place at 8:00 on Sunday morning (what was Dave thinking??) we had around 25 people show up. Several folks from Austin attended, as well as people from around the country and the world. That’s right we had one geek who [...]

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General Interest

Blowing Rain Knocks Down Large Oak Tree

February 12, 2009

There had been tornado warnings in the area yesterday with forecasted storms and strong wind. Up until mid-afternoon all we experienced was some light rain. Then it happened. The rain started to pour down and the wind was driving it through our valley diagonally. I grabbed the video camera and shot this video (watch to [...]

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Critters

Bye, Bye Boris

February 11, 2009

Sadly we decided to sell Boris yesterday. Happily, he went to an awesome home that already has an active “work program” for 10 other dromedaries. Check out this video of these gentle giants who will be living with Boris at his new home. Click the YouTube logo to watch it on YouTube, where you can [...]

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Tech Tips

Problem Resolved? MacBook Pro Audio and Video Recording Now in Sync with iSight Camera?

February 7, 2009

I’ve written previously about a problem I’ve encountered recording video with the iSight camera on my MacBook Pro. I know that many people have experienced this problem, as I regularly get people doing a Google search for the solution landing on this post. Last week I downloaded the latest version of QuickTime Player (ver 7.6 [...]

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General Interest

The Dreaded Colonoscopy

January 21, 2009

Today I begin my preparations for tomorrow’s colonoscopy. It’s not a fun prep, but it’s absolutely necessary for the surgeon to get a good look at my inner plumbing. Nothing to eat today, other than clear liquids. The worst part is the solution I start to drink at noon that will keep me very close [...]

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Virtual Immortality

Dear Paul Buchheit, Remember Me When You Do This.

January 14, 2009

Dear Paul, All I want is a free account when you implement this idea and make millions from it. I recently discussed the need for a trusted source to develop a service that would maintain your blog, photo, video and other digital media accounts into perpetuity. I said there was a business opportunity – and [...]

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Tech Tips

Put a Big Bald Guy in Your Inbox!

January 12, 2009

Now you can subscribe to my posts by email. That’s right, you can read my posts where you get your other messages, in your inbox. Just enter your email address in the subscription box located on the right side of this page (NOT the orange RSS feed button). After you subscribe, you’ll get an email [...]

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Critters

What a Week! Knoxville Geeks and the Loss of Rocky, a Beloved Pet

January 10, 2009

This week was both a fulfilling and a very tough week. I pulled off the first monthly Knoxville Geek Breakfast with 30 geeks in attendance, this was fulfilling. We also lost one of our favorite pets, Rocky, our too-tough-for-his-own-good Chihuahua. This was tough. The geek breakfast was awesome. We had a nice mix of people, [...]

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