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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Spam Sux.
I’m having to migrate my wikis from PMWiki to MediaWiki because I’m having a world of difficulty stopping the incoming spam. They’re editing the pages and filling them full of porn links.
Well, I can rationalize it by the benefits of reorganization. It should be easier to access. Sigh.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Staring Contest Rules
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Original “Metropolis” Found After 80 Years
“But a private collector carried an original version to Argentina in 1928, where it has stayed, Felix-Didier said. ”
clipped from www.cbsnews.com
Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic “Metropolis,” recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.\n
A long-lost original cut of […]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Once in a blue moon
I like this one. People say \’once in a blue moon, and usually mean \’almost never\’, but at least this way, you can see when they happen!
clipped from www.obliquity.com
\nThe average interval between Full Moons is about 29.5 days, whilst the\nlength of an average month is roughly 30.5 days. This makes it very unlikely\nthat […]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Wanted: Pre-1965 paper money
All right, craigslist has weird posts all the time, but this really caught my eye.
clipped from www.craigslist.org
i have come into the possession of my great grandfathers life work, among being a decorated aeronautical engineer it would appear he dabbled in the lesser accepted sciences. i have almost finished building his masterpiece a […]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Ah, modem troubleshooting…
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Searching GMail - how to find any message
The sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you’re looking for, without all the scrolling.If you don’t get a ton of mail, just typing in the […]
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Wiki Spam
All right. I’ve been on the web a long time. I’ve seen lots of spam. Usenet spam, email spam, popup spam, even blog comment spam (and boy do I have to keep an eye on that one). But the latest round of BS I’m fighting is really aggravating me.
I’m talking about wiki spam. I woke […]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Suggested items for a go-bag
Emergency preparedness planning is essential to keeping yourself and your family healthy in an emergency situation. If we learned anything from New Orleans it’s that the government and agencies can not be relied on when a true disaster happens.As far as gaming goes, I think every character of mine in modern games has a […]
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Tech Support Cat
more cat pictures
I’m applying for a new tech-support supervisor position. Wish me luck.
