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Picard does not approve

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2010 11 03 General Comments (0)

Silicon Valley Syndrome

I’ve recently discovered a new condition that has only recently been classified. Silicon Valley Syndrome. Once I had read more about this condition I realized just how many colleagues must be afflicted with this ailment. The rest of us must do our parts! Spread SVS awareness!

2010 09 14 Humor Comments (0)

Crashplan is good

I’ve recently signed up for a couple years of crashplan.com‘s central backup service. Currently 50 GB of data stored there and it’s got a nice front-end application to use. One of my favorite parts is that the client works equally well on Linux as on the usual Mac and Windows varieties. A fun kicker is [...]

2010 07 12 General Comments (0)

Automated backup system (works well so far)

Requirements A desktop or laptop of any kind A linux server Applications used Backuppc on the linux server (there’s a package for it on most distributions) DeltaCopy on Windows XP (you can use rsync directly on Mac and Linux desktops) Basically, install both, and configure to taste. Consult the documentation on both sites. However, there [...]

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2009 06 06 General
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When you get a text message like this from your wife…

You know you have scored a good one for life. Chuck norris doesn’t wear a watch because he decides what time it is. Love you baby! (Feel free to search the web for “chuck norris jokes.” Please don’t tell me what you find, but you might get the idea as to why I find this [...]

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2009 05 27 Humor Comments (0)

It’s one thing to name your business this…

But really, don’t paint it on your company trucks. Oh, and camera phones are awesome.

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2009 05 07 General
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As if space wasn’t cluttered enough

Cool, I won’t hop out of the ship to touch the sign now. Thanks. (Thanks to Jeff for the screenshot)

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2009 04 30 General Comments (0)

How everyone should sleep….

My seven month old son is sleeping with his face planted on the bed and his butt happily saluting the ceiling fan. That’s my boy!

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2009 04 17 Humor Comments (0)

Government will soon be seizing a local financial business near you…

In a recent article I read, I discovered that the U.S. Treasury department is asking congress for the power to seize non-bank financial institutions. Here’s a quote that would make any sensible person cry: “We need to give somebody, somewhere in the federal government. . . the power to do what the FDIC can do [...]

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2009 04 15 Politics Comments (0)

Ahh, nostalgia…

Aren’t you all glad errors like this are much less common? Oh, and notice you DON’T have any option other than rebooting the computer. Wait a second, that sounds like installing “updates” on Windows….

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2009 04 14 Humor
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