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In other news...
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Massacre Investigation Report
Since feyfern and the kids stayed at my parents house Tuesday through today, no one was home all day. I feed and watered the chickens in the morning, and opened the hen house door to let them free range. There had been no problems with this for a long while. Yesterday, that turned out to be a big mistake. I had a feeling when I fed them I ought not let ( Read more... ) -
How's that working for you?
Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.
Not too well, I see. If you don't punish crime, you'll get more of it, and the Brits seem to have thoroughly given up the idea of punishing crime (but they'll smack ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes I wonder
So, over a week ago the driver side power window on my "junk" van that I drive to work quit working and of course, it was rolled down. Now, all that time that it wasn't working, it was raining every day, so I couldn't drive it -- can't leave it in the parking lot soaking up rain all day. I had to drive the family van. Monday afternoon I got the ( Read more... ) -
The programmer's job
The programmer's job is to turn interesting problems into boring solutions. -
Using your Windows box as an X terminal
So I have to develop on a *nix box through a Windows desktop PC. Plain terminal emulation is no fun (who wants to develop in vi?). Through the magic of open source, I don't have to and neither do you! Here are the simple steps to follow:- Install Cygwin including Cygwin/X - download the installer, make sure the xinit package is selected in the things ( Read more... )
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Incommunicado
So, night before last it seems our DSL modem got fried by lightning. I just ordered a new one which should be here by Monday. No internet at home until then, but we are going to the in-laws for the weekend anyway, so no big deal. I am going to get a surge suppressor though... -
Your GPS is not going dark anytime soon
...and the journalists who've blindly parroted the FUD.
You may have seen all the fear mongering in the press lately about the state of our GPS satellites. You may have even seen it on certain church "news-related" web sites as evidence of the coming prophesied dominance of Europe.
Well. Cringley proves that journalists are worthless. Since when ( Read more... ) -
A thought in passing
When your only goal is to win and hold the position, you're irretrievably lost.