Author: Thomas De Maesschalck

  • How to get ice cold beer in 3 minutes

    Dumb Little Man published a tip on how you can very quickly cool a couple of beers (or any other beverage): Here is how he took beer from 80+ degrees Fahrenheit to (seemingly) 40 degrees Fahrenheit in about 3 minutes. 1. He took 6 hot beers from my garage and he placed them into a…

  • Live Free or Die Hard review

    One of the things I like a lot are movies and TV shows. I watch quite a lot of movies and I’m also addicted to a bunch of TV shows like 24, Battlestar Galactica, Jericho, Heroes, LOST, Prison Break, Stargate, CSI and South Park. Today I’ve seen Live Free or Die Hard (which is also…

  • 5 plugins to get more comments

    Lets take a look at a couple of WordPress comments that may help you to get more comments on your blog. 1) WP Grins This plugin adds cute clickable smileys in the comment form. This plugin normally uses the standard smileys from WordPress (which originally come from phpBB) but on this blog I use other…

  • Howto get MyAvatars to work with Brian’s Threaded Comments

    Last week I installed a bunch of plugins on this blog but unfortunately I couldn’t get the MyAvatars plugin to work. This is a WordPress plugin which shows cute little avatars next to your comments if you’re a MyBlogLog member.  This plugin requires a few code changes in the comments.php file from your theme but the installation manual…

  • Consumerist catches Geek Squad stealing pr0n

    Ever wondered what sort of things guys (or girls) from computer shops do with PCs that they get in for repair? Do they just do what they are supposed to do or is it quite common that they go sniffing around looking for ‘interesting stuff’ on your PC?  The guys from Consumerist.com decided to see what happens…