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Yet another attempt at sanity

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I have a new addiction…

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Not surprising I know, but I do.  I’m not great at video games, but I’m not the worst either.  I play my Wii and I like puzzle games… what surprises me is my fascination with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  I played The Call of Duty series as a first person shooter single player [...]

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Happy Winter Solstice!

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Today is the day!  Days start getting longer from here!  That means spring is on the way!  Wooooooooooo!  That also means just a few more months until I can ride my motorcycle again too!
Now is the time to start looking at those seed catalogs!  Start planning for your spring garden…

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New photos

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

added some new pictures to the gallery…

More campus graffiti
Campus in the Spring
Trip to RSA in San Francisco
and something else, but I don’t remember what

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I put my NetBook in suspend mode yesterday evening so I could take it home and finish some work on compiling.  Yeah now I remember why graphical logins suck fanny.
The graphical login is broken and just keeps reloading and reloading and reloading and reloading… well you get the idea.
Needless to say, I’m reformatting again, because [...]

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Living in a linux desktop

Monday, August 10th, 2009

So I’m getting along fairly well with my Netbook and while I understand that I’m not going to find ready made binaries and happy little plugins for everything I would like. I’m also  remembering what a pain some things can be when installing from source.
My latest adventure has been installing Pidgin’s OTR plugin.  I thought [...]

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Linux, my NetBook and me

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I’m at an impass. I’m pleased with the way my NetBook is working with OpenGEU an yet I’m frustrated at the same time.  This is the first time in a VERY VERY long time that I’ve used Linux for a desktop.  It’s really come a long way since then and it’s very usable.  The problem [...]

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NetBooks and Operating Systems

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I was a copy-cat a few months ago and bought a NetBook.  I got the ASUS EeePC 901.  it has a solid state hard drive and it’s about the size of a large paperback.  I love it and it worked great for me when I went to a SANS training at the RSA Conference in [...]

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well doesn’t that just figure…

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

I grabbed my rollerblades out of the closet this morning, so that I could blade the river trail after work today. As I went to toss them onto the truck seat a piece of plastic fell to the ground.  I didn’t think much of it, they’re old blades and I figured that I could just [...]

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Have you ever…

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Really craved something and then when you did get it or something similar and you really weren’t satisfied.  Then it goes into the “what the hell” mode where you’re really annoyed cause that thing just didn’t taste, smell, look… whatever.
Yeah, that just happened.

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Changing ones overall diet

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

So I decided to change over to a slightly different diet, well ok I guess it was a rather drastic change.  I went from eating meat to pretty much not eating meat.  I won’t say I’m a vegetarian, because that wouldn’t be true either. I like sushi too much to really want to give it [...]

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