While I recently finished up my first K2 style modification (and I’m not too disappointed with it), I believe that not only can I do better, but K2 feels a little “bloated” with a bunch of extra “features” that I don’t use. In addition, I’ve slowly been accumulating more and more plugins to provide other [...]
Entries from August 2006
Clean and Simple (The Scope Creep Problem)
by Matthew Smith · August 7th, 2006 · No Comments
Categories: General · Musings · Site Updates
Building an Effective Recruitment Strategy
by Matthew Smith · August 7th, 2006 · 5 Comments
As some of you may know, I am a proud brother of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and I have been a member of the Alpha Zeta chapter for a little over a year. After being noticed for my dedication, spontaneity, and go-get-um attitude (though occasionally lacking focus), I was named recruitment chair for the [...]
Categories: Advertising · Greek Life
Update: Search Engine Rankings
by Matthew Smith · August 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Since the initial post, I have been keeping an eye the on results of the Google searches and have noticed a few changes. The search of main interest (for the overall site) is for Matthew Smith, as this is the most common way for friends to find the site. After a few re-indexings, digivation.net now [...]
Camera Lust
by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
After reading Mr. Phil Askey’s excellent review of the Sony DSLR-A100, I almost plunked down $999.99 today. However, I managed to talk myself into waiting a few days; after all, I do have a few bills to pay. I am pretty sure (unless Nikon’s new DSLR really kicks butt) that I will be buying the [...]
Categories: General
AOL / Xdrive Planning to Offering Free Storage
by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
Hot off BetaNews, Xdrive (owned by AOL) is planning to offer 5 Gb of free online storage starting in September. Sounds like it’s time for Google to get a move on with their “gDrive” service.
Origami?
by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
I ran across these nifty directions detailing the construction of an origami debit card holder. Kinda fun and simple way to spend a few minutes. Check it out! [via]
Ubuntu - Essential Font Rendering Trick
by Matthew Smith · August 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Just a quick little post to inform you of an essential (in my opinion) patch for Ubuntu 6.06 font rendering system. If you are used to MS ClearType and have switched to Ubuntu only to be disappointed by font rendering, fear not. Using this simple fix, I think that my fonts look better than Windows [...]