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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.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
4e - New campaign, world conversion
Ah, the joys of a new edition of D&D. I now have to convert all my work on my campaign world into yet another new system. The crew voted to try 4e for the game since we’d all gotten early copies of the rules.
I’m trying for a ‘lower-drama’ version of my usual style. I usually […]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
The Stone, re-turned
Aargh! Once again the internet puzzle game the Stone is eating my brain. My first infatuation began years ago, when the Stone was a puzzle game you purchased access to by buying a necklace at the Museum Company. I remember getting it not expecting much and being thrilled at the intellectual challenges the Stone puzzles […]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
NIN - ‘The Wish’ - for free!
Nine Inch Nails are offering their new album on the web for free before it is released, as a thank you to their loyal fans.
Go to NIN.com and follow the prompts for your opportunity to download it in your preferred music format.
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Office Ultimate 2007 for $60?
Get 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate
A Microsoft student promotion that slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate applies to anyone with a .edu email address—and most universities offer .edu addresses to their alumni for free. Microsoft Office Ultimate, which retails for $680, is available to students for only $60 until May 16th. […]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Stephen King’s PSA
The video of this is at the source, newsbusters.org.
clipped from newsbusters.org
I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something […]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
If you thought Cyberpunk was just a game…
…think again.
China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites
NEW DELHI: China’s cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government and private, showing its intent and capability.
The sustained assault almost coincides […]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
How to make a Sawed-off USB Key
This is one of the coolest USB drive hacks I’ve seen
digg_url =’http://digg.com/mods/How_to_make_a_Sawed_off_USB_Key’;
Holy crap– somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!
No– wait– sorry. That’s just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind.
(And after the jump, how to make […]
