In 1998, I found a video game from 1997 that would mark my entry into video game manhood. Pathetic, I know. Forsaken was a mind-bending 360-degree by 360-degree hover motorcycle, race-bike death match against drones, other bikers and ‘the clock.’ After ten years, I felt like playing it again for old time’s sake on the PC.

Far be it from me to tell search engine visitors who to obsess over. Since the 2008 China Olympics on Universal NBC hit the HD at my house, people searching for naked swimmers have hit the site via search engines. It couldn’t be more obvious that SEO work isn’t for everyone. A quick investigation into Google.com/TRENDS shows that annually, “naked swimmer” overtakes “computer tutor” which leads me to consider adding the phrase naked computer tutor swimmer somewhere in the site.

Ah. Look what I just did.

Unfortunately, nothing says, “this is who I am,” like a Desktop wallpaper. Leave the factory default entact and you’re admitting to a fear of exploration and creativity. Pick a Jessica Alba boobie picture and you’re labeled a perv for life; use a picture from a movie you liked and you’ll be explaining the movie for the rest of your life and defending your choice to the death since even the best movies have detractors. So why not rub the on-looker’s face in your choice of wallpapers?

After installing hundreds of fonts that didn’t come with Windows XP, I find myself wondering what fonts I can use on a website that are mostly guaranteed to be viewable by almost all who visit: Browser-safe fonts. Which fonts come with Windows? What are their MAC equivalents? It is niether an extensive list nor one that will add a new, attractive style to your pages, but it’s good to remember what fonts are browser-safe and are those that everyone is likely to see.

Technorati Profile We shall soon find out.

In sticking with Things Geeks Should Know, you outta know that you can get Pandora on your iPhone. Sure the iPhone 2.0 software apps have gotten a bad rap, but Pandora just released 1.1 of their app and I’ve gotta say … ! Wow. … Want kick-ass, a little folksie, a little Top 40, little swanky SoCal cowboy Mexicale Latin that’s uber-catchy even if you don’t know the words? Jarabe de Palo (La Flaca makes me cry.)

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.anysite.com/. Operation aborted was the cute little message greeting me tonight after a few days of noticing that something was fishy with SiteMeter.

The GRID system in CSS is almost everywhere. Most large sites use it to squeeze advertising into blocks that run for miles up the sides. The Grid system was actually a way to harmonize creative site design as the missing connection between website design in Photoshop and other graphic programs and code like CSS and Forms used by Blog software like Textpattern and WordPress.

But can it help a first-time user in a pinch?

I’m learning the Ruby Programming language with help from books, tutorials and online manuals and the official http://api.rubyonrails.com site. It’s hard enough to keep me moving slowly but easy enough for me to have built, http://www…

I’ve even spoken with experts and experienced computer users who fear the Social Network driven Web 2.0 “stuff” out there. Good news! Before I got to busy with Ruby on Rails to update the site everyday, I bounced around with Web 2.0 services like Facebook, MyBlogLog, Flock, friendfeed, Flickr, PodCastAlley, MySpace, Seesmic, Ma.Gnolia and OpenID and received absolutely stunning results without more effort. I expect that this won’t fully sway skeptics, but you should hear what benefits came from my work of several days in plumbing the depths on your behalf.