Portension Gets New Server

15 May 2008

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Hooray! The day has finally come. The new server is up and running, which mean the new theme /interface is also back on.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Portension — March Makeover 4.0

10 March 2008

Jay Oatway

Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | In Memorial | Jump the Shark

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Happy Birthday Portension -- March Makeover 4.0

Portension turns four! (Check out our Wayback Machine trip down memory lane 2004)
Another year older, and another year wiser. The new version of Portension is the single biggest overhaul since we left Blogger two years ago. (The image to the left is of our first custom layout for our Blogger-powered site.)
Obviously, as with any great birthday party — we’ve made quite the mess. Like a sugar-crazed child, we’ve …

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March Make Over — Portension Turns Three

09 March 2007

Jay Oatway

In Memorial

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March Make Over -- Portension Turns Three

Well, Portension is another year older. We’ve come a long way, baby! Just check out the layout circa 2004:

The logo was huge back then and Blogger controlled all our backend. (And our hosting provider was useless.)

Today, the logo is a bit less huge, and the backend is all Wordpress! W00t!

Back then we had and average daily circulation of nine readers, today we average …

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Jay Oatway's 300th Portension Post

25 July 2005

Jay Oatway

In Memorial

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Thanks to everyone who has been reading Portension for providing the motivation to make this milestone. I’d just like to mention that if you haven’t yet subscribed to the Portension RSS feed, please do so now. It allows you to have all our Del.icio.us Portenderlinks delivered straight to your feed reader (there are way more of these cool links than there are posts to the main blog). …

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The Popular Future

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Friday Frivolity With Topless Power Rangers (NSFW)

Because Japanese pr0n is just so wierdly futuristic — it doesn’t matter that this video is ancient and has been making the viral rounds longer than the Bird Flu. Warning: bare breasts! Not safe for work.

Are you at home? Good. Enjoy Topless Power Rangers.

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World AIDS Day: Sharing Your PC Will Save Humanity

With the recent media overkill concerning a remotely possible birdflu pandemic, it’s easy to lose sight of the real pandemic–HIV/AIDS. While the immune-system disease will continue to claim many lives, international disagreement over how to fight the global HIV/Aids pandemic has persisted on World Aids Day. So …

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$TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn\'t done so already)$

TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn’t done so already)

It’s once again Web Wednesday in Hong Kong tonight. This week’s special guest is from television — no she’s not famous. She’s Ivy Wong, COO for TVB.com (one of Hong Kong’s local broadcasters — Warning: …

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Friday Frivolity With Robotic Breast Massage

Science fiction can’t make up stories this crazy: [via Gizmodo]

Yes, this miracle of modern science is designed for all sorts of women, from “girls who are reaching or having …

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