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Testing to see how this goes

Richard Orelup — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:11:07 +0000

Lets see if this shows up.

How bots mess up clickthrough stats and can be used for evil

Richard Orelup — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:36:07 +0000

Jump down to the “After the Technical” section if you don’t want to have an greater understanding of the technical side of how URL lookup twitter bots and tracking traffic on the internet works. In the first couple seconds of putting up a shortened URL on twitter I had all this bot activity come to my [...]

The Ren Men and their new Auto Group

Richard Orelup — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:24:48 +0000

Okay, a while ago I happened on stumble upon a new video series that I really enjoyed called the The Ren Men Show. I found them pretty early on when they had posted a video in response to a 4 Hour Work Week contest. Now you may be saying, “Richard, why the hell [...]

Rahsaan has an Ugly Mug Awareness Day comes to a close

Richard Orelup — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:47:58 +0000

Rahsaan proves that he is the coolest dude I know by playing along and supporting the joke Well this has been a pretty exciting 24 hours. This whole joke went way farther and had a much larger impact then I really expected. When I first typed up the post I had the limit set [...]

VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!!!!

Richard Orelup — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:46:41 +0000

Poor @saan1911, it's not his fault #RashaanHasOneUglyMug Okay so I’m feeling frisky today. I want to get a ton of people using the @saan1911 Bag Face as their Avatar. And guess what? I’m going to put my money where my mouth is (well actually other people’s mouths.) For every person who sets there avatar [...]

A list for Brian

Richard Orelup — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:39:07 +0000

Last night at the #nwitweetup I got talking with Brian from The Grossbauer Group about some PHP development related things and was having trouble remembering the names of a couple things so basically just throwing together a list of those things for him. If anyone else finds it of value thats cool too. The person [...]

My partner in Mu Studios is a Cylon

Richard Orelup — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:42:03 +0000

So at after the most recent #nwitweetup a few of us decided to have the #aftertweetup up at BW3’s in Valpo. We were sitting at a table where I had my back to the front entrance of the bar. All of a sudden I catch someone walking in out of the corner of [...]

DNS/Twitter post at NWICreative.org

Richard Orelup — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:53:36 +0000

Forgot to mention that I had done another article over at NWICreative.org. This one was on the recent attack on Twitter that got a lot of press but turned out to be not must. Overall I just wanted to talk about how DNS could be a much bigger issue that people never even thought about. [...]

Why I love Slicehost even more

Richard Orelup — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:41:05 +0000

Okay, recently I added a “We run on” to the sidebar that points out that we run on Slicehost. I was getting ready to write an article about how much I have loved running on them and recently started my second slice for a secondary MySQL and memcached server. While performance is [...]

People use social media to talk to each other? That’s amazing!

Richard Orelup — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:42:52 +0000

So finally got a chance today to check out what’s going on with the Twitter peeps and seems I missed a giant debate on what hashtag people in Northwest Indiana should use, #nwi or #nwindiana. Most people seem to use #nwindiana that I have noticed but didn’t really care much. This morning then an article [...]