Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Last year sometime, I discovered through my day-job that Qwest DSL was hijacking DNS queries for non-existent domain names, and redirecting them to a search page. For my day-job, this problem manifests itself as employees being unable to access corporate resources even when connected to VPN. After about 3 seconds ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
I just realized I haven't posted in ... Well, a long time... I didn't go out of my way to come up with something to post about, this just seems like something I should chime in on...
One of the things Obama talked about while campaigning was reforms in the area ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
I'm sure by now most people know that Sun was waiting for some knight in shining armor. Sun's major asset is the huge amount of technology (and patents on that technology) they own, and their engineering capabilities. Back in the day, every internet company owned Sun equipment, leading Sun to ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
OK, so even though the economy does seem to be bottoming out (the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed its first positive week of the year today), I've recently been on a kick to reduce household expenses. So far, this includes:
Shutting down and winterizing the hot tub -- should save at ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
This article hit the news today, which says that Verizon now has an unlimited calling plan for only $100/month with no roaming or long distance. The article says this could spark a price war, forcing the other major carriers to offer a similar plan for a similar price. It says Sprint ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
According to a story on the AP, Blackberry service is currently down for all of north america.
Even though I own RIMM stock, I wouldn't use a Blackberry product. It's bad enough that your cellular provider could, in certain instances, have problems (although to my knowledge none have ever had a ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Joel sent me this link to an article about Ford sending their legal bulldogs after a club of Ford Mustang owners. Appearently the club produces a calendar every year, featuring photos taken by the club members themselves of their own vehicles. Ford doesn't like somebody else publishing photos of their products.
It ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Last year, which is to say, 10 days ago (on 31-Dec-2007), we donated to One Laptop Per Child, under their "give one get one" promo -- $400, one to give, one to keep ($200 apiece, plus some shipping on the one to keep). In addition to donating to what I feel ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
The following video from Richter Scales perfectly explains the dot-com erra, and has a catchy tune, too. Actually it's about the most hilarious video I've ever watched on Youtube.
It went viral as the top rated video the week of 2-8 Dec, before being pulled due to alleged copyright infringement -- ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
OK, so it's been, like, a year since I blogged... about anything...
Everybody said I should blog about Julie getting pregnant, and yet I didn't -- I figured, Julie is blogging enough for both of us (see her blog under 'links'). Everybody said that, once Brooke was born (see Julie's blog ...
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