Ice Dragon was kind enough to run me over with the Geek Train, so I’ll participate just one more time. These memes and link trains are getting a little tired, but his choice of keywords for my blog left me scratching my head. You made me laugh dude, so I’ll play along.

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Geek Train - All aboard!

Do you hear the sound of crickets around here? I thought so.

I’ve been buried with work here lately and haven’t found much time to post anything worth reading. On top of my insane workload, I started another project to use up any remaining scraps of free time I can muster. Wanna know what my new project is? A new blog, of course.

I just heard back from Bloglines regarding the unread posts problem. Here’s what they had to say:

We are aware of the situation you have reported and our technical team is working towards resolving this issue as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

I’m glad to know they are aware of the problem and are taking steps to correct the issues. I’ll keep you posted if I hear anything else from Bloglines.

Check this out:

It’s a really cool tune but this guy’s performance blew me away. He makes me want to drag my guitar our and beat on it some.

I might just do that.

For the last month or so, I’ve noticed something strange with Bloglines.  Every few days, a good number of the feeds I’m subscribed to show a considerable number of unread posts that I’ve already read.  Some of the “new” (or updated, I suppose) posts are a week or more old.  I can’t imagine that many old posts across 45 different feeds are being updated.

I am amazed at how lazy people are when it comes to their online personal security. Here is a list of reasons why you deserve to have your identity stolen online and some tips to help you protect yourself.

1. Your password sucks.

Are you using one of the 10 most common passwords? If you are, change it now!

These are considered weak passwords:

• Short passwords; less than eight characters

Ever since I posted the 8 facts you didn’t know about me, I have been getting tons of crap about my pet peeve regarding improperly spoken English.  Today, my good friend Ladonna sent me this excellent joke.

Here ya’ll are: 

Harry is getting along in years and finds that he is unable to perform sexually. He finally goes to his doctor who tries a few things but nothing seems to work.  So the doctor refers him to an American Indian medicine man.

You already got to see the wizard behind the curtain, but now I have to share eight things you didn’t know about me.  I was double-teamed by Don and Roberta to participate in this meme, so I’ll be a good sport and join in.

Here is how this thing works:

• Each player must post these rules to begin the meme.
• Each players starts with eight random facts or habits about themselves.

I’m back from vacation! 

Vacations always seem too short to me.  Five days came and went in no time and it’s back to the daily grind already.  The one thing I really dislike about taking time off work is having to spend a week catching up for the two days I was away.  I’m just glad there were no serious problems at work while I was away from the computer.

It’s time again for my weekly link round-up to share the love with my fellow bloggers.  Every Sunday, I post about some of the interesting things I found during the week.

It’s called the double-take because you get two links for being that damn interesting.  Here we go:

• Jane May gives us the benefits of networking with bloggers and tells us how to get around writer’s block.