Dadnology

A Clean Gadget is a Safe Gadget

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:18:22 PST

ZAGG Gadget Foam So if you have any mobile device that you carry with you by know you are more than aware of how oily and dirty it can get. Especially if its a touch screen device like a phone or tablet. The way a touchscreen can have so many fingerprints and oil streaks on it is boarder line magic. And unless you carry a microfiber cloth around with you at all times the screen never gets

Uncle Tommy and the S#!t He Says

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:05:48 PST

Google + has given birth to many things. Circles, hangouts, lack of sleep. But one of the lesser known of them is a legend. The legend of Uncle Tommy. You see Uncle Tommy isn't a horror movie character. He also isn't like anyone you have ever met in live either. Its like if you took a little bit of Barack Obama and mixed it up with a little Warren Sapp then wrapped it all around with a bunch

Google+ Trending Down? Reply Hazy, Try Again

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:29:29 PST

The Famous Magic 8 Ball I don't know if I'm just a weirdo (which I probably am) or just super uncool (Which again I probably am) but are all the uncool kids really on and only on Google+? I mean I keep reading articles about how Google+ is trending down and I have to say honestly I don't see it. I get how people say usage is trending down. And that might be so. But I would like to point out

The Walking Dead: Rick vs Shane

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:43:33 PST

Forgive me for my bluntness but Rick Grimes the F'ing man. Case in point. His best friend in the world Shane leaves him for dead, screws his wife and may be the father of the unborn child he believes is his. What does he do to this guy who everyone thinks is the basest thing in this damned zombie world that they live in? He pulls dude out when no one is around and tells gunshots my woman, my

Who Do Voodoo? Not Me!

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:41:02 PST

1Weather App So I suck at casting spells and curses. The Knicks fell to the Miami Heat. They weren't destroyed, but they also won't be having any fond memories of the game. Have to admit it was weird seeing Barron Davis run the point for a while. Also sad to see Dewayne Wade just run circles around him and Jeremy Lin. Anyhow its the All-Star break so I have a few days to forget about that

Please Knicks Please

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:23:03 PST

Do Fried Chicken Bones Count? The only thing that is worse than being bad is being OK. Sounds weird right? But its true. If your a sports fan and your just bad for no reason and you get beat by a good team you expect it. You justify it by saying you don't have good players or a good coach or general manager. You watch the first couple minutes of your game, look for some chips and then

Valentines Day

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:57:15 PST

Butch & Sundance Aren't they cute. Adorable even. They are my pride and joy. Its only though the miracle of having kids that you truly begin to understand nature. That the deadliest of creatures have defense mechanisms to put you off guard just to strike and finish you. Children are no different. What's worse is they law has drastically tipped the advantage to their favor. You can't just drop

Monday Grind of a Pondering Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:23:28 PST

Whoa Man!!! If you are in my age bracket, or just watch a lot of Boomerang you might remember those old Tom & Jerry or Woody Woodpecker cartoons where when they were really sleepy they would put toothpicks under their eyelids to try to stay awake. Well I'm two steps away from that right now. I told myself I would not rely on the 5-hour Energies anymore. That was before I did a glare into time

Son Of A

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:45:56 PST

Grey Hair. Can't Miss It So Here we go. Another grey beard hair. Just found it looking back at me in the mirror. Why do grey hairs seem to grow faster than regular hairs? Anyhow my trek into my late 30s is full steam ahead. So anyhow, as I come to grips with being a grey "almost" 40 year old who still likes watching cartoons and comic books I started thinking about all of the hard lessons

Admin Corner: Quick Windows Information Gathering

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:55:48 PST

The biggest misunderstanding in computers today is that of the system admin. In days long past the system administrator was a dude who drank a lot of coffee and spent way too much time over a CRT monitor and log files to see if someone was using too many resources or planning out how he was going to patch a whole in his system or deploy a new software package. Users in those days just ran

The "PC" A.K.A Your Pocket Computer

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:35:27 PST

Humans love labels. Male, female, white, black, gay, or straight. We love putting things in a box and saying "That's what that is and that is all that will ever be!". Often we see these labels retard our sense of reality and force us to come up with more labels to describe things while at the surface seemingly different but actually something we are completely familiar with. Case in point the

Phones, Drones, and Other Stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:20:05 PST

The Mega Sized Samsung Galaxy Note There is one things being addicted to technology and reading trashy romance novels have in common. There is always something new out there that will keep your mind occupied. Especially when you have an over abundance of bull crap on your mind that you don't want to focus on. So I will borrow my buddy Mr. Jupiter's phone obsessions for a second to jump off

Cloud Storage: Where does your information live?

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:49:12 PST

Increasingly more and more people are using cloud storage services to share files between each other. E-mail was fine back when hardly anyone had a file that was more that 20 MB in size. But we live in an age when a single high-resolution picture for a camera phone could be 5 MB itself or more. And lets not even get started with those videos of your kids playing in the sprinkler during summer

The Ark of Humanity

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:41:22 PST

The Orcam Orbital Camera System I'm a pretty big SciFi fan. Not huge, but if I have a choice between an action or science fiction movie I'm pretty sure I'm picking aliens and time travel. So needless to say when I went though my Google Reader feed this morning and I see the a post from The Verge about a 3D scanner that can take perfect digital representations of objects it got me to

Blank Slate or How I Got My Inbox Back

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:45:16 PST

Taking Control of Email I received my Gmail invite just after my birthday in 2004. I just check and I still have my welcome e-mail as my first message. On like page 624 of my inbox. Yikes!!! If your like me you probably has used your Gmail account like a message repository since day one. The bad thing is 2700 days later (give or take a few dozen) you end up with a seemingly endless number

Admin Corner: Add a Service in RHEL

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:03:27 PST

So you have a Linux box your using as a LAMP server (Linux Apache mySQL PHP). But you are not an experienced admin and the thought of downloading and compiling AMP part is keeping you up at night. So you decided to use a pre-packaged developer suite call XAMPP. You just uncompress the file and run a command and BANG you have your own web application platform. Simply awesome.But the reality

The Admin Corner: Leave Environment Alone

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:03:43 PST

Tux the Linux Mascot The Admin Corner: Leave Environment AlonePart of an admin's job is securing his systems. Not fun I know. But if you want to make sure that you system isn't frequented by citizens of the Peoples Democratic Region of wherever you need to take some things into account. One of those as I am learning is access to the terminal. Specifically the mesg command.The mesg command

Cool App - Shush! Ringer Restorer

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:20:53 PST

Shush! Ringer Restorer It's not a game. Its not a spreadsheet. And it won't order you lunch. But this app will save me more than once. Pretty much I am famous for putting my phone on vibrate and forgetting to put the ringer back on. Well thanks to my favorite podcast All About Android (Follow them on their Google Plus Brand Page) I heard about Shush! Ringer Restorer. Ringer

My Year in Music ... If You Will

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:14:37 PST

This is a slow week at work. Partly because of the holiday and partly because AIDE (Advance Intrusion Detection Environment) is giving me fits on this CentOS 5.7 box. But I've been able to go though my G+ stream a lot more than usual. I usually just live in my notifications because you never know what you may see in the wild on G+. Anyhow, I was reading my buddy Bianca Lee post about her

Twitter full of Lemmings

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:32:28 PST

Say what you want about Google+, but I didn't find out about this until this morning. The good thing about Twitter is you are on the plus of the 16-28 year old Internet. So as soon as something happens you hear it. The bad thing is if its wrong OH BOY!!! I can remember a few others like Nelson Mandela, and Morgan Freeman (as discussed in the Black Web 2.0 article covering this issue). I

WalMart's Best Export. Touchscreen Cleaning Wipes

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:37:15 PST

So I was at the WalMart today stocking up on soups for lunch for the next week when I stumbled upon this treasure. At the cashier counter where they have the candy and "As Seen on TV" products was a two pack of these Touchscreen Cleaning Wipes I had never seen before. And since I had lost my microfiber cloth I use on my phone and tablet yet again I decided the $2.00 was worth testing them out

Growing Up

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:31:37 PST

I'm not going to say 20 years ago this past Monday I lost my innocence. I don't think I was ever really that innocent. I do think that I along with millions of other teenage black, white, Hispanic, Asian, and other Americans grew up real fast. November 7th 1991. I lived in New York City and was a high school junior. And that is as hard to admit as it sounds. Now if your not old enough to

I Try Hard

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:58:28 PDT

I'm getting more use to using Sound Cloud and this was too good not to post. Enjoy. I Try Hard by mtony75

Da Hell I be Thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:37:03 PDT

Sometimes I think I am retarded. And yes I know the politically correct term is "mentally challenged". But with the stuff that flies though my brain at times I think its full on retarded. Case in point. I was at this wedding. And all these women started to talk about how "hippie" this young woman was in her dress. I look at her and say in a calm and even tone: "I can't really see her hips past

The Handy Man

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Fleming) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:11:56 PDT

Yes people I'm am trying to bring down the term Metrosexual. I just changed a garbage disposal. And damn enough if I didn't do the job without burning down the house. Like I said in the video " Who needs a six pack when you got tools ".