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Archive for November, 2008
Gobble gobble
In: Dogs| In the news
27 Nov 2008Happy Thanksgiving!
And have a heart, give the pooch some turkey.
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- Tags: thanksgiving
Monday Night Football
In: Packers
24 Nov 2008I’m not sure what happened at half-time. But somehow the Packers forgot how to play football.
This is ugly.
Setting up a silent DNS master server
In: SysAdmin| Tips & Tricks
24 Nov 2008Recently, I have begun the process of moving my domains from the DNS servers at my previous employer. They have allowed me to continue hosting my domains there as I still send them a spam feed of unknown addresses from my various domains. Yes spammers, keep that mail coming. Its only doing you [...]
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- Tags: DNS, Silent Master, Tips and Tricks
Livestrong
In: Apple| iPhone App Reviews
23 Nov 2008I’m not a health fanatic by any means. I try to eat somewhat healthy, I track my weight like a freak (its the programmer in me) and I work out regularly. May not to the freakish level of some of my co-workers (Example A & B)
One of the recent additions to the iTunes App [...]
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- Tags: App Reviews, iphone, Livestrong
Keys to the castle
In: Politics
22 Nov 2008The elections are finally over and we’re finally free from political ads, mailings and phone calls. Obama is headed to the White House and the Democrats have even more control over the House and Senate.
But, there’s always a catch. And here it is Democrats.
If you have learned anything [...]
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- Tags: Big Government, Change, Politics, Representation, Spending
iPhone Software Update 2.2
In: Apple
22 Nov 2008Another iPhone Software Update has come out. This one has bug fixes, Map and Email improvements, and the ability to download podcasts over the air.
I’m attempting to download the damn thing, but it is really slow right now. Anyone else having this issue?
Spam Drop!
In: In the news| Security| Spam
22 Nov 2008Normally when I see articles such as this where spam volumes have dropped between 40-75%, my BS meter starts to peg on high. But more articles are coming out stating that 500,000 bots have been bagged.
Surprisingly, we have seen the drop here at the office. We have a store and forward [...]
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- Tags: Spam, Spam Volume Drop
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to step down
In: In the news
17 Nov 2008Finally!
I think that all the Yahoo investors have been waiting for this announcement for a while.
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- Tags: demise, Stock plummet, Yahoo
XCode Errors
6 Nov 2008By trade, I’m a PHP/C programmer and rarely have time to really work on some fun stuff at home. But recently, I have been trying to spend some more time working on some fun projects and getting my hands dirty with XCode and the iPhone SDK.
I recently downloaded the latest and [...]
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- Tags: Errors, Internet, Pain in the Ass, XCode
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- Cryptogram #1 – Solution - /usr/local.com: [...] So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram? [...] [...]
- Another Goal - /usr/local.com: [...] already stated my main 5 goals for 2010. But this morning I realized that I have developed a v [...]
- Judas wears a purple #4 - /usr/local.com: [...] written about it before, I enjoy watching number 4 play. But for the Vikings!?!?! [...] [...]
- blog.brentb.com » iTunes 8.2 Released: [...] but I want a mouse when I have 8-9 pages of Apps on my phone that I want to sort. Matt with [...]
- IgniteIT Talk - /usr/local.com: [...] a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of p [...]
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- Not sure how many sysadmins are out there looking for jobs. But @LightEdge has a few opening on the windows side http://bit.ly/9iHszN
- RT @dhh: Jeremy Clarkson says it perfectly: http://bit.ly/ajvQ95 -- so much evil has been done in the name of "never again".
- RT @thaddeus: I'm pretty sure @RyanMcMahan will love this: http://bit.ly/aTs0uZ < That's Freaking Sweet!
- if($date == "Sept 2010") { new.child(); parents.excited++; } #im_a_geek #preggers
- RT @zacharyjohnson: Super awesome video: http://bit.ly/bW0peq (via @karlfrankowski)