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You’re not a snowflake!
In: In the news|Rants
22 Jul 2010As 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 [...]
I’ll fully admit, I may be one of the few people that doesn’t watch Glee. I may catch clips from time to time, but never on a regular basis. So with that baseline set…here’s something that I’ve noticed recently. iTunes has definitely started pushing more of the cast albums at me in their weekly “what’s [...]
Priorities
In: Rants|Tips & Tricks
19 Mar 2010If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse. -Unknown
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Health Care
In: In the news|Politics|Rants
15 Dec 2009Yes, 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
Is this the best you can do?
In: Dumb People|Rants
15 Dec 2009Seriously CNN, is this the best that you can do? In case you are wondering why people no longer look to you for news, this is why. Some blowhole closing his twitter account shouldn’t make the front page of cnn.com.
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- Tags: CNN, Main Stream Media, Twitter
ClimateGate
In: In the news|Politics|Rants
3 Dec 2009For 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
Responsiblity, Hard Work, Commitment
7 Sep 2009Have we forgotten already who Barack Obama is? It seems that we have. Apparently President Obama is giving a speech tomorrow to kids across the country in K-12 schools. He’s talking about responsibility, hard work and commitment. You know, the values that our country holds near and dear to our hearts. Core values that each [...]
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- Tags: Commitment, Conservatards, Controversy, Hard Work, Obama, Responsiblity
Verisign Spam
21 Jul 2009Some people never learn. If you spam me, there is a good chance that I WILL mock you on the internet. Sure my site gets all of 2 readers a week, but they will know how big of a jackass you are. Here is the spam that I got from Verisign: —— Forwarded Message From: [...]
The convenience of the internet
In: In the news|Rants
23 Jun 2009I recently ordered tickets online for a Broadway show that’s coming into town this fall. I was expecting the price to be fairly pricey seeing as this is a pretty hot show and its the first time that it is coming to our town. There are some fees that I don’t really care about. Restoration [...]
Customer Service Matters
In: Dumb People|Rants
16 Jun 2009Recently, our CR-V has developed what can best be describe as a cigarette smell to it after it has been sitting closed up for several hours. The thing is, we don’t smoke. We don’t think that we part near a smoking area so it is rather odd that this smell has started to develop. In [...]
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- Tags: Cars, Customer Service, Dump People
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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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- RT @iapp100: SoundPrism is a killer iPad app. Demo: http://bit.ly/daNEMP Store Link: http://bit.ly/cq7c9X #ipad #apps #music
- iTunes10 first impressions: Logo looks odd and the max/min buttons are vertical instead of horizontal, looks like someone fucked it up.
- RT @iapp100: VMware vSphere Management App....damn sexy http://bit.ly/bgH4eZ Can't wait for this to get out in the wild! #vmware #ipad
- Averaging 10+ hour days, no significant progress on projects. This week isn't going as planned. #workinglate
- the vmware view client is for the iPad.