Author Archives: J.D. H.

Friends as Phones

A long time ago I wrote a blog entry entitled “Friends as Food” in which I anthropomorphised various foods to match my friends, or was it vice versa? Regardless, after watching the Cell Phone Reuninon video it made me think about friends and phones. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD8OcPGScRU[/youtube] (Thankfully my friends that have iPhones are nothing like the iPhone character in the video!) Sometime I would like to do a real Friends as Phones entry where I figure out what phones best match

Differences between the EX and LX Honda Elements

I’ve always wondered about the differences between the “EX” and “LX” Honda Element. Today I finally took the time to look it up. The EX is the more feature packed model, but the LX has some advantages too (if you prefer steel wheels over alloy wheels). Here’s a brief rundown* Audio: LX has no iPod/mp3 port, EX does Wheels: LX has steel rims, EX has alloy rims Speakers: LX has 4 speaker radio. EX has 6 + 1 speaker (the

Our Honda Element gets a makeover

Today our Honda Element got cleaned, detailed, and new tired. Tomorrow it gets full-serviced. It is looking nicely new, I feel like we have a new car :-). While all this was going on it gave me a chance to do some walking in Springfield, to and from various appointements. Then in the evening my mom met up with Samantha and me to have some tasty Pizza Hut on Sunshine Street.

JO’s ultimate computer (Octo Core)

Type QTY Price Total Item Comments CPU 2 $835 $1,670 Xeon Clovertown Quad Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz 19.2 GHz Motherboard 1 $499 $499 TYAN S5380G2NR Dual Socket 771 Intel 5000P SSI 6 high speed USB ports on back of the computer, 2 more in the front of the case. Let me know if you want more. Memory 4 $180 $720 1GB FBDIMM ECC memory chips 4GB RAM Primary Hard Drive 1 $225 $225 Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM

301 Redirects on IIS A Tale of Two URLs

301 Redirects on IIS A Tale of Two URLs Most websites, including mine, have the same content for their domainname as well as for www+their domain name. For instance at my site in the past if you went to jdhodges.com you’d get the same thing as www.jdhodges.com. The problem with this is that Google and other search entries treat www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as two completely different sites, this can result in your pagerank being split between multiple sites and duplicate