Tagxedo

By oneniner on Nov 02 2010 | Comments

I heard about Tagxedo.com on Net@Night from the twit.tv network and figured I had to try it.  It is actually pretty neat.  You can plug in different websites, twitter ID's and search terms to create a neat tag cloud of the words you use.  Here's an example of mine.  I uploaded a graphic and adjusted the fonts, colors and layout until I set it how I liked it.

 

 

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About (my newest Posterous blog)

By oneniner on Jun 24 2010 | Comments

I'm going to put a summary of this on the About page, but I wanted to create a blog of my daily technology support issues that I come across.  First a little background I guess, all of you techies/geeks should know exactly what I'm talking about.  Since I happen to go to school for Computer Science and work in IT, I am the official support person for all of my family and friends, and I guess all of their friends.  You almost have to be a tech person to understand the enormous number of crazy requests that we get.  99% of the time I am more than happy to help a friend out, even though sometimes I wish I could ask my accountant friends to do my taxes, my handy friends to fix my electrical in my house, or my insurance friends to underwrite me a plan or something, but it just doesn't work that way.  Some people understand and are more than happy to pay or get me a gift certificate, which thats not the point of this blog.  We don't help others for the money, at least after we have enough to live on, we help because we can and we enjoy the other persons satisfaction when they realize they didn't break anything and it was relatively fast and easy to fix.  I also don't want this blog to discourage people from asking me questions, because you don't want to be posterized.  I'm going to try not to enter names, but I do want to separate what requests come from my family, friends and work, so sorry Grandma, you might get a couple mentions.

It's funny, just because I know a little bit, some people think I can figure out anything that gets plugged in.  I'll try to recap some old stories and try not to venture into other work related stories that aren't tech related, but I'm sure they'll come out some since I have my bachelors, worked for a big corporation for a few years and now a small LLC for a few years.  Not to mention all the gadgets and "crap" I have at my house to show off.

I also want to keep this light and fun.  I get some crazy requests and I'd like you to hear them, but at the same time, some things are very informational, even for me.  I'm hoping to also have this as a knowledge base to look back at some of the things I did to remember how to do them again.  So feel free to ask your questions here, I'll try to help, but just like I tell my friends and family.  I have a full time job, a family (the wife has enough computer problems and the dog has a twitter account), and I enjoy to spend some time doing stuff I enjoy, so that stuff comes first, but other than that I'll try to help where I can.

Speaking of work, I should get back to it, but there's more to come.

I wasn't sure if this would get posted here or not, but I guess so. The specialized posts will be on my nolancarson.posterous.com page.

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Posterous

By oneniner on Oct 14 2009 | Comments

I'm just starting to play with Posterous and getting it setup for my blog.  I love the idea and can't wait to get started.  They have an iPhone app, work with about every social network and they guys there are smart and easy to work with.  So it's time I get more into "micro-blogging" and back into updating my regular blog again.

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New Blog/web design

By oneniner on Mar 04 2009 | Comments

I recently made some major changes to my blog.  To start with I changed the address.  I was using a Blogger blog that posted to blog.oneniner.com and decided to import it into a Blogengine.net blog to go with my website a little better, so the new address is oneniner.com/blog as I'm sure you figured out if you're reading this.  Along with this change I decided to combine the 3 or 4 blogs I had with blogger into one.  I used to have a blog for my sports activities, the soccer team I used to coach, but still love to follow, then my personal one that talked about everything else.  Since I'm the only one that wrote anyways, and they are all about my life I just combined them.  I have so many interests that I was afraid people would get lost, but then I decided that's just me, people will want to know the real me and all the different things I like to do.  So here's the composite blog.  To confuse things even more, we started a P90X blog with some friends at omahaP90Xcrew.blogspot.com and I'm also working on a site for Amy and I's wedding at oneniner.com/wedding.

There are going to be a flurry of changes made to my wedding site as August 8th gets closer, then as time frees up, I'm planning on overhauling my main site, so I hope you enjoy!

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My website

By oneniner on Nov 24 2008 | Comments
I wish I knew more about formatting my blog.  I've seen other people's blogs so I know it's possible, but I want to clean up my webpage and make my blog part of the home page, then insert a feed on the side with twitter updates and any other updates for my other stuff.  In the long run, I'm going to incorporate some photography and maybe a locked section with a live video stream and some personal apps and info.  I guess I have a lot of plans and just need to get started.

I'm planning on starting from scratch to replace the old site with a different style and feel and everything.  The old site was basically for play and doesn't have any useful info or apps.  Maybe a couple links, but that's it.  I figure I've had it for a couple years now, it's time to redesign and make it more useful.  I also need to work on a logo.

So, time to get after it and learn a couple things.

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Oneniner.com

By oneniner on Mar 02 2007 | Comments

I'm going to get after it on designing my web page. I spent a lot of time on it then haven't done much for a while. I want to have a personal page, then branch off to my soccer and other pages.

I need a logo, so here is the official contest announcement. See if you can design something cool for me that has something to do with the number 19 or oneniner.com. I don't really have much to offer, but I would if I could.

I'll post any ideas I come up with as a reply to this, feel free to post your own.

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Google, Cool-gle

By oneniner on Mar 02 2007 | Comments

I recently figured out Google Apps, and it has to be one of the coolest things. I've been a fan of Google since I first heard their name. I wish I would've bought some stock at the time. I'd love to have the opportunity to work for them. I'm sure you've heard about their bennies. They are in the top of the Fortune list. So anyways, back to this Google Apps stuff. I have recently added my Google blog, calendar, start page, docs and even GMail to my own domain, oneniner.com.

GMail is the coolest part of it all. By going to http://mail.oneniner.com I can log into my oneniner.com email addresses that I have created and named. The catch is GMail hosts them and it saves me the storage and work of having to host them myselves. And all this is FREE!!! I'm as google's mercy as far as makeing sure the servers are up, but I don't think that's a bad gamble.

What's next? I can't beleive the ideas they come up with and how well they pull them off.

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Signed In (Away)

By oneniner on Nov 03 2006 | Comments
So I'm trying to develop a new webpage, but I keep on getting distracted by other stuff. Does anybody else find it hard to concentrate on one thing when their sitting in front of their computer. I have 3 instant messanger programs going, atleast 3 email addresses I receive email on, then MySpace & FaceBook which are as addicting as crack. Let alone I'm trying to stay up on this blog thing and my gf keeps texting me on my cell. I guess it's just a sign of the times, that technology has made people so readily available. I guess I don't really mind, but my webpage is falling behind. Enough ranting about that.

There are a ton of other cool things technology wise that keep my away from the work I want to do. Here are a few, let me know in your comments if you have any others. The first 3 sites were recommended by my buddy G. He and I are co-workers in the IT department.

LifeHacker - this site has all kinds of tricks and kinds of software to make things easier.
Engadget - a cool site with all the newest in technology gadgets. I really shouldn't be looking at this site, cause I love gadgets.
FatWallet - the place to go to find deals on the coolest gadgets, and anything else as far as that goes, you need cheap toilet paper in Texas, look here first.
Slashdot - News for Nerds, enough said.

There's a few other's I go to, but I can't think of them. If you ever need to know how to fix something, be sure to do a search on Google or the site for the source of your problem. I'm sure somebody out there has had the same problem before. Even though sometimes we feel like we have to of been the first. This will save your uncles, brother's, nephew's friend that works on computers some time if you can solve it on your own, trust me.

Google, is a whole other topic I'll have to discuss some other time. I love that place. They have done some incredible things and I'm looking forward to what they have up their sleeves.

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My First Blog...

By oneniner on Nov 02 2006 | Comments

So I'm trying to get into the whole blogging thing, but things don't just come to me when I'm sitting front of the computer. I'm actually pretty creative usually. There's alot to this blogging stuff that I don't understand. First of all, who would want to read my blog. I'm not sure what I have that makes me that much different than anybody else. Maybe I should tell you a little about myself first.

I have a wonderful girlfriend named Amy. She is from Omaha, NE and still goes to school at Simpson College. Which is my Alma Mater. I played football and baseball there, and currently coach football (running backs). I also coach high school girls soccer in Newton. I've been doing the coaching thing for 4 years now and I've decided it's a field that I'll never be able to get out of. I'll be coaching my great-great-grand kids at the sports that are invented by the time they are playing. And I'll still be telling stories about the 2003-2006 soccer and football teams.

I am also an IT professional currently working for the Maytag Corporation. I started here in November 2003 as a temp and then was hired full-time 2 months later. I've been working as an IT Customer Support Analyst and was recently promoted to a level 2 analyst. I've worked in many different areas, but most recently in SAP Basis & web development, but continuing first and second level support to Maytag employees. We were recently acquired by the Whrilpool Corporation and my position has been transitioned. On March 1st, I will no longer be employed by Maytag/Whrilpool.

The name oneniner has a lot of meaning to me. It sounds like a silly screen name that I made up to be unique on the millions of sites that I have signed up on, but it comes from the number 19. When my dad was growing up the number 19 was lucky to his father (my grandfather). His father died when he was young, and therefor I never got to meet my grandfather on his side. When I was starting to play sports I was talking to my dad about what numbers I should choose. I always prefered 9, but never thought of double digit numbers as lucky until I had this talk with my dad. He was telling about the meaning that the number 19 had to him, so I decided to adopt the number as my number. So all though highschool sports I was number 19. The only sport I couldn't be 19 was basketball because in high school nobody has any digits over 5 in their numbers, but for football, soccer, and baseball I wore the number. In football I started my carreer playing quarterback so the number fit my position perfectly, then my senior year I moved to playing defensive line. I was probably the only defensive linemen in the state wearing 19. The nickname Oneniner came from baseball season. It just kinda grew on me from hearing people say "lets go one-niner". So I decided Oneniner is now my nickname. Nobody has ever called me that, but I have used it online every since ncarson was gone from the hotmail database in 1996.

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