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energy saving, and goth as all hell
someone told google that if they changed their color scheme from white to black it would save 750 megawatt hours a year, so they said, why not. you can check out blackle and do you google search in an easy-on-the-eyes black, which is also pretty goth. (as a sidenote, there’s already a blackle firefox search…
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iHack
after several failed attempts and much twiddling with drives and MBRs, i am now happily running a fully functioning (albeit silent, at the moment) copy of Mac OSX on my PC. i had to wipe my ubuntu install but i made a full backup before doing so, so i should be able to restore it…
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my dad would find this entertaining…maybe
http://www.xkcd.com/274/ —————- Now playing: “Depeche Mode – Damaged People.mp3” via FoxyTunes
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well frak me gently with a chainsaw
warning, the following rant is of a geekish nature and has several prerequisites if you are to understand the anecdotal value of it. otherwise the “short description” is less amusing, but not jibberish. PREREQUISITES: knowledge of hard drive partitions (at least that they exist) basic understanding of linux basic understanding of GRUB is helpful basic…
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polarity
i realized today that i’ve been really hyper today and yesterday. this coming off a fairly long string of being tired, in a bad mood, somewhat depressed, and feeling generally worthless and hopeless with regards to the job situation. nothing’s changed since then, but my mood has swung suddenly and drastically. which then makes me…
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new pages
i added some pages on the side under a new section called worldbuilding. the purpose of this new section is to have a place to dump the different fictional worlds i’ve developed over the years. some of these are closed, over and done with and some are still growing. putting them on the blog means…
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dragged into facebook
i got dragged into facebook a while ago by tess, but i didn’t do much to my profile because it looked like another myspace toy crossed with linkedin and a) i don’t care about myspace — i have a better blog, and b) i’m already on linkedin…i got dragged back in today because a couple…
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my workplace is a hostile minefield with snipers posted waiting to turn my head into swiss cheese
i work in a hostile environment. it’s not hostile to anyone else, at least, not usually. just me. don’t believe me? how’s this: i am a tier 2 technical analyst, which, if we are going to continue with the military metaphor, isn’t quite the first wave of infantry (read: cannon fodder) who are considered utter…
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and a tiny update
because i like gadgets, i added some more on the sidebar. last.fm did some new stuff to their chart thingies (now referred to as widgets), and they are pretty spiff. of course, this required me to hack the style.css so the width of the sidebar actually fits the new widgets. now i think i need…
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brief server downtime
probably no one really noticed, but the server was down for a bit yesterday. it seems to have hung sometime in the afternoon and needed to be rebooted. it seems to be a-ok now…