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You’re not a snowflake!

22 Jul 2010

As I was checking in today on the latest tech news, I found out that Twitter has announced that they are building their own data center. Death to the fail whale they are calling it. Maybe so, but what really got me was this. Twitter will have full control over network and systems configuration, with [...]

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Tags: Rants, snowflake, Twitter

News

In: In the news

8 Mar 2010

If you follow me on twitter (@usrlocal) or facebook you probably already know this little bit of news. But here it is anyway… My wife and I are please to announce that we will be expanding our family this year. We’re expecting our first towards the end of September. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited [...]

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Tags: preggers, release announcement, usrlocal

Another Goal

In: In the news

9 Jan 2010

I’ve already stated my main 5 goals for 2010. But this morning I realized that I have developed a very bad habit since getting my iPhone a few years back. This is kind of related to goal #1 of work less. But I think it needs to be separated out on its one. My iPhone [...]

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Tags: Goals

Bing!

In: In the news|Micro$oft

8 Jan 2010

Recently we had a pretty funny conversation with our Microsoft premier support tech. It was clear that a memo had gone out from up above and he was doing his part to push bing out to everyone that he could. Unfortunately, he forgot he was talking to engineers. We’re smart ass bastards and he should [...]

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Tags: Bing, Google, Microsoft, Search

Goal Setting

In: In the news

30 Dec 2009

As the end of the year is quickly approaching, I like to look back at what I have accomplished for the year and what new things I will strive to complete in 2010. Some people like to make a New Year’s resolution. I personally think that this is great, but limiting. Most people will set [...]

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Tags: Goals

Health Care

In: In the news|Politics|Rants

15 Dec 2009

Yes, I’m going there. But not for the reasons that you might expect. I’m not going to make this a right vs left, red vs blue, or bears vs packers issue. I’m going about this from a bit of experience in the not so distant past. My wife and I had been traveling in another [...]

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Tags: health care, technology

ClimateGate

In: In the news|Politics|Rants

3 Dec 2009

For some reason, the Climate Gate articles have not made enough of a splash in the main stream media. I’m sure that the conspiracy theorist will have a reason why this is happening. I just don’t think that the story has gotten enough attention yet. So…here is a pretty good article on what has happened: [...]

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Tags: Assholes, Climate, Global Warming, Weather

’24′ Season 8 Trailer

In: In the news

29 Oct 2009

I’m not sure I can do it again. Gramdpa kicking ass…seriously…that will be 5 seconds of the show and then it will go from weird to plain stupid.

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Tags: 24

Introducing iApp100.com

In: In the news|Links|Site News|iPhone App Reviews

31 Jul 2009

Today, I’m finally able to let the cat out of the bag about a side project that I have been working on. My fellow brother in song, Brent Bierstedt and I have been working over the past several months on a better way of accessing, ranking and organizing iPhone apps. We love the iPhone and [...]

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Tags: iApp100, iphone, iPhone Apps

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

In: In the news|SysAdmin

30 Jul 2009

Yes, its true. Its time to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day. Its always the last Friday of the month of July. For those that don’t know. Sysadmins are the people that fix your printers, stay up late patching servers, migrating mailboxes or making sure that the company keeps running with laptops, file servers, email and [...]