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how windows 7 (inadvertently) helped me find a virus
so the other day, i got a notification in my systray that msdt.exe was corrupt, and possibly i should do a chkdsk to repair the problem. after seeing this crop up several times, i decided to take the message’s advice. i stopped paying attention at some point, when i realized the chkdsk was gonna take…
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windows 7 beta review
so, i’ve been running win 7 beta on my main machine for a little while now and thought i should share my thoughts, since, you know, that’s kind of the whole point of this beta thing… boot time bootup time is significantly faster than vista and xp. i’m actually pretty surprised at how quickly it’s…
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server intestinal implosion
so the server is having issues. i’m getting a lot of slow loading pages and error 500s on the wordpress sites i’m running. when i contacted 1and1 to report the issue, i got this fantabulous response: me: > Hi– > > I have multiple sites running on my shared hosting > package, and I noticed…
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Puppy!!!
i got off work last night and we drove from PC to Henefer which is another 30-45 minutes north of Park City to pick up our new pug puppy that i’ve been twittering about. he’s a 9 week old fawn pug and so far loves chasing the cats and playing with us and the…
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and the award for dumbest news of the week goes to…
the state department, after a “reply-all” storm caused their servers to crash. apparently, not only were people pissed at being included on the reply-all lists, and sent angry replies, but the problem was further compunded by more traffic caused by email recalls. i’m left speechless. read the post and scathing replies on /.
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Hello Ziggy: WordPress “Hello Dolly” Replacement
hello ziggy is a branch of matt mullenweg‘s original hello dolly plugin that comes as part of every wordpress installation. i like the idea of “Hello Dolly”, but i didn’t really want the song, so i changed the lyrics to another song that summed up the “hope and enthusiasm of a generation” — except, not…
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rpm 09
so, it’s another year, and there’s another rpm challenge. this is that nanowrimo-like competition for musicians to create a cd in the 28 days of february, front to back (so, including cover art), and is always the time of year when i say “maybe this year i’ll get something done,” and never finish. the rules…
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A Public Service Announcement to the Blogosphere…
The Onion is satire. SATIRE, people! C’mon, people really thought this was real? Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard (Answer: yes.) wtf? I mean seriously, with all the headlines about how Steve Jobs wasn’t even at MacWorld Expo this year, let alone the fact that the MacWorld keynote is TODAY, not yesterday like the…
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There’s Too Many ThinkTanks
so here’s the story: back in the mid- to late-nineties, i made a lot of music. i was angsty and in high school, and spent a lot of time focussing that angsty into some screamy tunes set to bad synthesizers that i called music. i even had a fake record label. or three. first,…
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ThinkTank Clothing resurrected
working on creating a new shop for thinktank clothing powered by zazzle. stay tuned.