Archive for February, 2008

Tips for the Grammy Awards show producers

Slicksta just caught up on some weekend TV and barely made it through the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. What a disaster! Here is some Slicktified constructive criticism for the producers and directors of the show.

Quit it with the mash-ups. Having artists from different eras or genres perform together is more novel an idea than exciting [...]

Ways to instant message at work

Some companies make it really hard for their employees to use instant messaging programs at work. Slicksta thinks this is terrible and wants to help you stay in touch with your buddies! If you find your IM access blocked at work try one of the following sites:

Meebo – One of Slicksta’s favorite websites / services [...]

Reasons to use WordPress for blogging

There are many blogging platforms and services out there but Slicksta likes WordPress the most. Aspiring bloggers whether technically inclined or not will find WordPress easy to understand and even simpler to use.

Easy to Install – The famous “Five Minute Install” is misleading. It usually takes Slicksta 2-3 minutes tops to get an new instance [...]

Great resources to kick-start PHP/MySQL development

Looking to get into PHP/MySQL development? Building websites as a hobby can be fun and rewarding albeit time-consuming. These open source technologies make web development accessible to anyone with a computer and an idea. Here are a few sites and services that Slicksta found helpful when he was learning.

Sitepoint.com – This site if full of [...]

Things to like about last night’s Survivor Premiere

Slicksta really enjoyed the first episode of Survivor 16: Micronesia. The Favorites vs. Fans concept is awesome and this looks to be another entertaining season.

The fans have this false sense of confidence (“we watched the Favorites on tv – we know their game!”) and the Favorites’ cockiness was put in check when they lost the [...]