I had planned on another rant about the shortsightedness of corporations and some of the general craziness and frustration of corporate life in general. But I’m guessing no one is really that interested in reading yet another pointless rant (if you are, never fear. I will undoubtedly continue them in the future). Instead I came [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by nethound
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I’ve been running on Vista at home for over a month now, it is probably one of the longest stretches I’ve gone without reloading my system in the last 6 months. It is actually running fairly well, no major issues. The UAC popups are annoying, and something in my antivirus keeps me from connecting remotely [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by nethound
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My D.C. trip quite an experience. It started even before I got there, while waiting for my flight in KC. The mix of passengers was different than what I’m use to. More people with bad haircuts and cheap suits, lots of them. Most of them seemed to know each other, lots of animated discussions, plastic [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by nethound
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Tuesday I get to fly out to Washington D.C. for a couple of days for my job. We have a Government Relations Branch which essentially is a lobbying organization. My involvement is purely technical, and I’m going out to check on some problems with their phone system. I’ve never been to D.C. and I think [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by nethound
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I realize welcome to the social is Microsoft’s Zune advertising campaign, but it does fairly well grab the essence of what web 2.0 is all about. I’ve commented on this before. Despite my negative feelings about the nature of twitter, I’ve decided to give it another try. Why, because all the cool bloggers and podcasters [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by nethound
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Webhosts are interesting creatures, I’ve had several in the 11 years I’ve had some kind of presence on the web. Most of them follow a similar pattern. You sign up for a plan, the price is good, the performance is awesome, support is quick and helpful. But as months pass, things seem to change. The [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by nethound
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I just imported all the old blog entries from my tir-na-nog.net blog going back to November of 2002. This is done more for my own desire to be able to read these than any belief that anyone really wants to go read snippets of my life from six years ago. I had to restore its [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by nethound
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Any of the four of you who ever read this blog may recall that a month or so ago I had a strange incident with a madman on the road. Ultimately, this obviously disturbed driver of a Chevy pickup-truck used his truck to repeatedly ram a car with a family (including a child) and run them off the road.
I had called 911 to report this person earlier after I had witnessed them try to run someone else off the road and the chase me for a while. I got their license plate, I gave it to the 911 operator. The guy that got his car rammed got the license plate number from the truck and gave it to the police when they arrived. I gave the license plate number to the police when they arrived. The people in the another car that witnessed the incident gave the license plate number to the police as well.
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by nethound
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Redoing the site….again. This time around an unsuccessful drupal upgrade killed my website. This wasn’t really drupal’s fault, as I didn’t actually follow the directions and suspected some custom configurations I had might cause problems. I was debating between doing an upgrade and just wiping it out and starting over, so I decided to let [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by nethound
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