Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
I just got invited into Google's beta of GrandCentral.
If you're not already familiar with GrandCentral, here's how they describe themselves:
With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know ...
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Today I found that one of my domains was not displaying my website, but instead was showing visitors a list of Google AdWords sponsored links, and throwing malicious pop-under windows. I did a quick ping, nslookup and a whois query on it.
The ping replied from 66.45.237.187. Not my ...
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
... The length of time Michele and I just spent, disconnected from the outside world.
Well, technically, I guess we had our cell phones and they were working. And we are still able-bodied so we could have walked somewhere. We both have functioning vehicles as well. And we ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Attention:
To all of you wastoids who still insist on using Internet Explorer, even after the Mozilla Foundation offered you a vastly superior and more standards compliant browser (Firefox) for FREE. And even after Opera Software decided to stop charging for their also vastly superior browser (Opera).
Microsoft has recently ...
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Have you ever found yourself composing an email with Microsoft Outlook and notice that many of the words you've just typed are underlined in red even though your positive that they're are spelled correctly? If you're like me and most of your emails contain geek speak, then you have. ...
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Congratulations to Rusty on being the first person to successfully leave me a voicemail in several months! Thanks man. I appreciate your effort.
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
I finally got on the horn with T-Mobile and got my voicemail fixed. Feel free to leave a message after the tone now.
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
For the past three weeks I've been in the process of building a new email filtering gateway/relay, diligently hacking away at an installation of Suse Linux on an old Compaq ML380 rackmount server. Downloading, testing, tweaking, monitoring, securing.
This machine currently accepts, analyzes, filters and then passes on email for ...
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
FYI: I have been using the same AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz) processor since early 2002.
For some, hell even MOST people, this would be perfectly sufficient. In fact, this PC has never really given me any grief. From a non-gaming standpoint, it will do anything I ask ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
I finally finished putting together all of our new office furniture on Friday. It only took me three days, too. It's really really nice. Here soon I'll post a picture of it. Which brings me to my next point...
I finally got a new camera. I ...
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