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Slonkast Episode 14

2010-08-19 22:52:16

Name: Slonkast Episode 14 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about more ways to hack vehicles, some good and bad with Facebook, jailbreaking iPhones, ...
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Foursquare Makes Me Hate Twitter

2010-08-19 10:41:32

Anyone who follows me on Twitter has probably been annoyed at some point by my constant, seemingly mindless updating or my incessant ranting. Usually the remark is something like, ...
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Slonkast Episode 13

2010-08-09 21:10:48

Name: Slonkast Episode 13 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about how to stalk someone, a possible Google/Verizon debacle, how to make your own ...
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Slonkast Episode 12

2010-08-02 20:40:24

Name: Slonkast Episode 12 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about numerous cool and scary things out of the Black Hat and Defcon conferences, ...
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Slonkast Episode 11

2010-07-26 20:59:27

Name: Slonkast Episode 11 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Ed Zahurak Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Ed talk about Google taking over the world, Net Neutrality and broadband requirements, ...
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Slonkast Episode 10

2010-07-19 21:35:07

Name: Slonkast Episode 10 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about social networking, Microsoft's operating systems, and all areas of mobile phones including the ...
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Slonkast Episode 9

2010-07-12 21:37:14

Name: Slonkast Episode 9 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Jeff Betts Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Jeff talk about Twitter and Facebook problems, security issues for many large corporations, ...
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Slonkast Episode 8

2010-07-06 07:53:35

Name: Slonkast Episode 8 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks about imperialism, mobile phones, the iPhone 4 debacle (or lack thereof), and much more. (2010-07-05) Download slonkast-008.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe ...
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Podcast Tracking: Improved

2010-06-29 13:57:18

Last week I showed you a quick and dirty way to make a podcast downloader script that will also track the number of downloads. This week I have a ...
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Track Podcast Downloads Using PHP And Mod_Rewrite

2010-06-24 20:09:18

I recently ran into a problem that I suspect most new podcasters run into. You publish your own podcast but soon find out that you have no way to ...
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Slonkast Episode 7

2010-06-22 21:46:32

Name: Slonkast Episode 7 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about viruses, secure online usage, mobile operating systems, and more. (2010-06-22) Download slonkast-007.mp3 Subscribe to ...
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Slonkast Episode 6

2010-06-09 06:42:17

Name: Slonkast Episode 6 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Frank Cameron Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Frank talk about Google, Project Natal, Adobe vulnerabilities, D8, RIM, and WWDC. ...
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Responsible Disclosure: Preventing A Possible Disaster

2010-06-03 11:59:02

Responsible disclosure, a method of vulnerability disclosure where all stakeholders agree to a certain window in which the vulnerability will be fixed before the details are revealed to the public. ...
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Slonkast Episode 5

2010-05-31 20:48:36

Name: Slonkast Episode 5 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about internet in your car, 3D movies, the AT&T problems, Facebook privacy issues, and ...
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This Ain’t Your Grandma’s 3D

2010-05-30 14:26:35

We all remember it; coming home from the grocery store, dumping out the cereal box, and searching for the red and blue 3D glasses so that we can see the ...
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My Car Needs Internet

2010-05-25 10:34:39

Can you imagine it? Your vehicle having Internet access. It's almost as if we should be expecting our car to say, "I'm sorry, Kevin, I cannot do that." ...
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Reset A Forgotten Windows Password

2010-05-17 19:58:22

Have you ever had a Windows XP machine where you forgot your password and didn't know the password for the administrator account? Or maybe you have a newer Vista ...
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Automate DPI Altering With ImageMagick

2010-03-22 20:57:05

One of the most mundane tasks I have to perform after a photo shoot is editing the dots per inch (DPI) of the almost-finished photos so that they print at ...
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Fix A Corrupt Windows Registry With Linux

2010-02-26 21:45:40

During this past week I was called upon by two different people to help with their computer problem. The first problem was a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) and ...
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Breast Cancer Blunder of 2010

2010-01-08 10:02:15

UDPATE: I took my own advice and made the web page to help this effort: http://bit.ly/6CQl7d For the past couple days most people have noticed the barrage of single word ...
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Slonkast Episode 4

2009-11-16 20:39:30

Name: Slonkast Episode 4 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks about the recent Vox Nova concert, Kaspersky AV for Mac, Google Wave and Voice, SquareSpace, and a book ...
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Smarter Publishing? Maybe Too Smart...

2009-11-12 13:33:01

My website hosting contract is coming to an end within the next month. I've heard many, many rave reviews about SquareSpace and decided that I should check it out ...
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Use Google Voice As Your Voicemail Service

2009-10-08 12:20:30

UPDATE: Google Voice has added the Voicemail ability natively. My directions at the end of this article are no longer necessary. Google Voice is a great service. In its ...
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Frozen Mac? Maybe Not Completely...

2009-09-07 18:50:43

So it just happened to me. I copied some photos/movies from a Memory Stick onto my computer and decided to look at them using Preview. I made it ...
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My Encounter With A CraigsList Scammer

2009-08-28 22:00:08

It was a dark and dreary day in Johnstown. I sit in my cubicle, soaking wet from my recent trek to the doctor's office. I notice that my ...
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Lenses For Sale

2009-07-20 19:21:53

So I'm looking to buy two new lenses and because of that I don't need the three that I currently have. So, here is a list of the lenses ...
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Kevin Slonka Here For Alice.com

2009-07-03 14:28:52

In true Billy Mays style, at least for the intro, I do a pseudo-pitch for Alice.com. I won't say too much about the service, since most of that is ...
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Sync iPhone Calendar With Google Calendar

2009-06-19 19:15:57

This is something iPhone users have clamored for since the beginning. Unless you used the Calendar app on your Mac, you weren't getting any appointments in the Calendar app ...
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AT&T Suffers Nation-wide Network Outage

2009-06-18 10:15:39

At approximately 4AM EST, AT&T's cellular network suffered a major outage; their data networks stopped working. Customers were left with no internet access from their mobile devices through either ...
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Make That Tree Look Taller

2009-06-10 19:47:25

So Gillette has released some videos to help guys learn how to shave various parts of their bodies, from head, to armpits, to the groin. Yup, you read that ...
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Slonkast Episode 3

2009-05-29 15:23:34

Name: Slonkast Episode 3 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin welcomes Isabella Rose Marguccio to the world, talks about the Showcase for Commerce, Polkafest, his birthday and vacation to ...
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Slonkast Episode 2

2009-05-07 20:33:13

Name: Slonkast Episode 2 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks about the RMU graduation, the FBI, KFC, some television, and the iPhone 3.0. (2009-05-07) Download slonkast-002.mp3 Subscribe to Slonkast ...
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Podslurping

2009-04-07 20:09:56

During the second half of the Spring 2009 semester, I am taking a class on Information Security Assurance and Auditing. We are required to complete a final project, given ...
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Installing hping3 On OSX

2009-03-24 22:15:18

Most people know that OSX is just BSD with a pretty interface. Technically... I say that because you can't just take normal BSD packages and expect them to ...
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Restore iTunesHelper to OSX Login Items

2009-03-19 10:15:52

Maybe some of you, like me, get a little click happy at times. I was today when I was extremely frustrated that Skype decided to open every time I ...
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/etc/hosts Replacement In OSX

2009-03-17 09:26:44

On all *nix hosts you can add an entry to the /etc/hosts file so that you don't have to remember an IP address, can force your machine to always hit ...
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Create an ISO from a CD on a Mac

2009-03-11 10:24:30

Sometimes Macs are too user friendly. Sure, as soon as you put in a CD it automounts, puts an icon on your desktop, and you can immediately start accessing ...
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I'm Famous... At Least On The Internet

2009-01-29 00:05:15

One of my regular shows from Revision3, Tekzilla, takes video questions from viewers and answers them on the show. I recently sent in a video question asking whether ethernet ...
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Alex Albrecht Explains Cell Manufacturers' Reaction To Apple

2009-01-21 22:58:48

On this week's Diggnation (which actually was a live show in LA from last week), Alex Albrecht explains how cell manufacturers must have felt when Apple came on the scene ...
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Adding "Tabs" To Framed Web Applications

2009-01-19 11:56:14

If web developers have one major gripe (other than IE not conforming to standards) it has to be when they are tasked to create fat-client functionality in a web application. ...
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Weather Integration For Google Calendar

2009-01-19 09:08:13

Who out there uses Google Calendar? Not you? Are you an idiot? Well, if you don't use Google Calendar you should probably stop reading. For those ...
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Slonkast Episode 1

2009-01-14 20:42:17

Name: Slonkast Episode 1 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin discusses his studio, HDDVD vs. Blu-Ray, the PS3, and Twitter. (2009-01-10) Download slonkast-001.mp3 Subscribe to Slonkast ...
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Indestructible Film Very Destructible

2009-01-05 16:31:15

For more than a year, I have used an Invisible Shield from Zagg. My first Shield was for my Motorola Razr2. I keep my cell phone in my ...
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Slonkast Episode 0

2009-01-04 01:05:19

Name: Slonkast Episode 0 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks iPhone on the pilot episode of the Slonkast. (2009-01-03) Download slonkast-000.mp3 Subscribe to Slonkast ...
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The Impossible: It's What I Do

2008-12-19 20:24:26

For a couple of days this week, I've been doing some consulting work at a local manufacturing company, owned by a member of my church. The initial work was ...
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Add TTYs in Fedora 9+, Plus More!

2008-12-10 17:51:17

As extra credit in my Intro to Linux class, I gave a problem that used to be simple but is now (since Fedora 9) slightly more difficult. As an ...
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Evolution: I'm Not So Sure

2008-11-25 09:46:24

Every intelligent Christian knows that the creation stories in the Bible were just that; stories. The world probably wasn't created in seven days. Instead, Christian scholars accept a ...
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iPhone Earbuds: A New Way To Use Your Phone

2008-11-12 21:24:15

I've had the iPhone for a couple of months now, but refused to use it as an iPod. A few weeks ago I decided to sync some music to ...
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Keeping Your Audience Involved

2008-10-10 12:59:31

How involved do you get your audience? That's a question on the mind of every TV executive. They know they need to get you involved while you're watching ...
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Parents' 25th Anniversary

2008-10-06 10:24:03

This past Wednesday, October 1, was my parents' 25th anniversary. I wanted to send them on a vacation as a surprise, but realized that they needed to know so ...
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Using An Alternate Window Manager With GDM

2008-09-26 21:34:03

Recently I found myself needing to run a less resource intensive window manager on a linux host. The host ran Fedora 9, used GDM, and had Gnome as the ...
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Symbolic And Hard Links Explained

2008-09-18 21:18:14

As I was covering links in the fourth week of my Intro to Linux course, I realized that this was a pretty important topic that should be written down on ...
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Install Dell Wireless Drivers/Utility On HP Hardware

2008-09-17 21:32:24

You may be asking yourself what kind of crack I'm on. Well, it's the kind that makes me want to install Dell software on HP hardware. But seriously, ...
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iPhone 2.1 Firmware - Yay Or Nay?

2008-09-16 07:42:07

Apple realized their mistakes with the previous versions of the firmware. This time, we actually got Steve Jobs's personal promise that things would work. I just read an ...
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Is Chrome The Next Step To GooOS?

2008-09-12 14:10:15

Many people have wondered why in the world Google would release a web browser. Everything Google does has been web based (the exceptions are cases where they bought other ...
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Google Chrome: A Poor Attempt

2008-09-03 09:39:45

Hot on the heels of my IE8 review, here is my Google Chrome review. I would have had a review up yesterday, when it was released, but since Google ...
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IE8 Beta 2 Review

2008-09-02 21:00:57

The day the second beta of IE8 was released I decided I was going to give it a go. IE has been a completely worthless browser ever since hackers ...
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Launch Of The New United Way Website

2008-08-28 12:49:59

For the past month or so myself and our crack-team of engineers (Garrett, Adam, and Diane) have been working on the new website for the United Way of the Laurel ...
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Fellowship Of The iPhone

2008-08-12 08:55:00

Journey to Mordor My iPhone experience started yesterday around 4:00PM when I left work and headed to the mall. Because I hate people, I parked right outside of the restaurants ...
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Open Invitation To Internet Lurkers

2008-08-04 20:38:51

There is an ever-growing group... collection... cult, if I may, of parasites on the Internet. People who consume until they can consume no more, but hardly ever, if at ...
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Web 2.1337 #5 - The Dark Knight

2008-08-04 17:08:00

I have seen The Dark Knight three times now. Each time I pick up more and more. For instance, the second time I went I caught how the ...
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BREAKING: Dishwasher Earns Black Belt In Karate

2008-08-02 14:24:32

Rueters: In an unprecedented event, the Whirlpool Quiet Power 980 has become the first dishwasher in the history of the world, nay, the universe, to earn a black belt in ...
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Installing camE: A Tutorial On Compiling From Source

2008-08-01 12:29:12

I recently ran out of space on my main desktop with an 80GB drive. So I bought a 500GB drive to replace it. Instead of dd'ing the old ...
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Kevin Slonka For President In 2008

2008-07-25 09:52:46

I made the Channel 3 News. Make sure you all vote for me! ...
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Villain for Batman 3

2008-07-21 19:43:11

The Dark Knight is the best movie ever made, period. Much talk has been done about the villain in the next movie. It's pretty well known that the ...
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Web 2.1337 #4 - Road Cones

2008-07-17 15:34:39

Another idea from Garrett. Have things in your everyday life ever reminded you of something in your technological life? For Garrett, that happens more often than not. ...
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Finally Framed

2008-07-15 19:09:16

I went to Michael's a couple of days ago and bought a frame for my Digg shirt signed by Kevin Rose. I, however, needed a pseudo-matting because the cardboard ...
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Test 2 With The DigiTech Vocalist Live 4

2008-07-15 08:56:14

I decided to pick two more songs and record them without actually learning them ;) The first is a song by Allison Krauss and Union Station. Actually, I ...
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Web 2.1337 #3 - The Walkway

2008-07-14 18:09:45

Thanks to my co-worker, Garrett, for hurting himself and giving me the idea for this comic. ...
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No Soup (3G) For You (Me)

2008-07-11 20:17:12

I'm probably gonna get a new iPhone. Not right now, I don't want to wait for hours on end just to activate the thing. I'll wait until all ...
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4th of July Pictures

2008-07-11 19:41:14

The title really says it all. I just got around to developing and resizing the pictures I took of the fireworks on the 4th and our cookout on the ...
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Toshiba Not Giving Up On HD-DVD?

2008-07-10 10:38:22

Everyone knows that I picked the better technology in the middle of the HD war, HD-DVD. It's too bad that Sony is richer than Toshiba and bought out EVERY ...
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Digitech Vocalist Live 4 Test Run

2008-06-25 20:13:36

My new toy arrived today! The Digitech Vocalist Live 4. I couldn't wait to try it out, and I didn't want to read the manual, so I just ...
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Simple XML End-Tag Detection

2008-06-24 14:45:33

Say you're working with an XML or RDF document and your program keeps spitting out errors saying that some tags aren't closed, etc. What do you do if you ...
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Web 2.1337 #2 - Baby Names By Science

2008-06-20 20:08:37

We were sitting at lunch talking about the places where we grew up. Jon mentioned how, growing up where he did, everyone knew everyone and what they were doing ...
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Web 2.1337 #1 - Scripting Too Long

2008-06-19 15:58:01

Ever have one of those days when you do nothing but stare at code, write code, then stare at it some more? Well I had one of those days. ...
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Mount LVM Volume from Live CD

2008-06-11 21:01:03

If you know anything about anything, you know that Live CDs are great for rescuing data from dying computers. Normally, this involves mounting a hard drive with a single ...
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Autographed Digg T-Shirt

2008-06-09 19:51:48

You have no idea how excited I am. Today, in the mail, I received my gift for being a founding member of Revision3. What is the gift, you ...
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It's Official, I'm Smarter Than You

2008-06-06 15:51:55

Today I received my diploma in the mail. Now the expensive part... Buying a nice double frame for the diploma and my Alpha Iota Mu honors certificate. ...
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Comments From VIM, Nevermore!

2008-05-28 10:14:04

Has anyone else noticed how the newer versions of VIM attempt to be smart? Yeah, they think that just because you typed a comment on one line that you ...
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Use the Amazon MP3 Downloader on Fedora 9

2008-05-21 13:22:33

If you're like me, you've probably upgraded your Fedora 8 host to Fedora 9 only to find that half of the stuff you use doesn't work anymore. I found ...
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Mario Kart Double Agent

2008-05-13 08:18:37

Last night Kelli and Izeke came over to play the Wii. After sucking horribly at Mario Galaxy they decided to race in Mario Kart. After also sucking horribly ...
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Dear Mario Kart, STOP CHEATING!

2008-05-03 22:42:24

I've had Mario Kart for the Wii since last Monday, though I have only played it 2 days of the 6. It took a couple races to get used ...
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Awesome Hidden Windows Feature

2008-04-28 13:17:59

And by awesome, I mean totally _not_ awesome. A co-worker just called me over to his desk to check out some odd behavior. He had just extracted a ...
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Boo you BlueFish!

2008-04-18 12:09:55

I don't know either Ruby or Java at the moment, but I need to learn both. I'll be having to design a web application in jRuby on Rails so ...
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Laurie's First Communion

2008-04-15 21:32:20

This past weekend was my cousin's (actually, first cousin's once removed) first communion. So my family and I traveled to York for the mass and party. I don't ...
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Genuises Working at Wendy's

2008-04-14 15:53:44

This past weekend, I was in York for my cousin's first communion. One of the nights, we stopped at Wendy's for some food. As I was waiting for ...
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How many RAM slots do I have?

2008-04-10 12:20:37

Sure, Windows can tell you the total amount of RAM in your computer, but sometimes you need to know how many slots you have and how many are used. ...
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Windows Server 2008 Core: Networking

2008-04-09 21:32:04

In my last article on 2008, I showed some basic operations that you pretty much need to know to work with 2008 Core. In this article, I get a ...
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Windows Server 2008 Install/First Impressions

2008-03-25 15:15:01

So I downloaded the Windows Server 2008 CD from Microsoft (which I'm surprised they let people do). I installed it under VMWare on my Fedora 7 laptop and started ...
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The Brightness of 1000 Suns

2008-02-28 10:46:00

As every photographer knows, properly lighting your subject is, perhaps, the most important part of photography. Without the proper amount of light, you get shadows, dark spots, bright spots, ...
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The Slippery Slope of IT

2008-02-25 21:33:34

What is the role of a person in the IT field? Let me further define "the IT field." When I say "the IT field," I am speaking of ...
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Nike Acquisition

2008-02-14 22:44:16

No, I didn't buy Nike. Though, that would be pretty awesome. What actually happened was that I bought new shoes. I've had my current pair of Nike ...
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What Am I Reading?

2008-02-03 16:31:58

Thanks to Veronica Belmont for introducing me to Google Reader, you can now see all of the articles that I read on a daily basis. I use Netvibes as my browser's ...
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New Video Card Screws Up OpenGL

2008-01-31 14:32:52

My Dell E510 came with an ATI X600 video card, which was not the greatest. It had 128MB of RAM, but the killer was the slow clock speed and ...
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Where Is The Church Camp?

2008-01-28 23:21:34

I was in Wendy's today and to the left of the register was this pamphlet holding device that had some... pamphlets in it. The first thing that jumped out ...
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Debug the TWM Menu in RHEL4

2008-01-24 12:49:36

So your window manager of choice is TWM because of it's slimness and configurability. But after painstaking hour^H^H^H^Hminutes editing your .twmrc to add some applications to the menu you ...
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American Gladiators Ringtone

2008-01-22 15:27:38

I've been watching the new American Gladiators and it sucks. The more I watch, the more I want to stop. The original one was so much better. ...
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The Lion King: A Critique

2008-01-19 23:53:10

Last night I saw The Lion King in Pittsburgh. It was a great show, but it had a few things that made me wonder, "why?" Too much choreography while singing My ...
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He's Thirsty!

2008-01-11 13:11:39

Rhuel and I went to Wendy's today for lunch. This guy in front of us ordered, went to the condiment station, and started getting stuff. I didn't think ...
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Need More LiveCD Space?

2008-01-09 15:45:40

Most of you have read the article on how to create a custom Fedora LiveCD. Well, by default, Revisor creates the "filesystem" with a 3GB limit (2.8GB usable). ...
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HP ScanJet G3010 in Fedora 7

2008-01-03 21:48:45

For the last bit of photography I did for Crown, I received a $100 Best Buy gift card. I needed a scanner for a long time, so I decided ...
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Buy Your Music From Amazon

2008-01-02 17:25:09

You heard me right, Amazon sells music... as in MP3s. As of a week ago, Amazon now has 3 of the 4 major music labels in it's catalog. ...
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My new swag!

2007-12-31 20:37:00

As I was watching the last episode of DL.TV for 2007, the guys broke out some old ZDTV stuff. Roger was wearing a ZDTV jacket and a The Screen ...
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My Farewell to CTC

2007-12-29 21:57:18

Last month marked one year since I left CTC. I recently read TechTV Employee Number One, and realized that Russ's reasons for leaving TechTV were somewhat similar to my ...
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OfficeCam, Twitter, and Facebook

2007-12-28 01:41:45

After getting my oak filing cabinet and having to put the stupid thing together, I decided to unpack some of the boxes I had in my office and put things ...
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Wow! Bus Fare Is Cheap!

2007-12-12 14:21:36

I was reading an article on the writer's strike and who was there picketing with them. An article over at the LAist had a lot of pictures, one of ...
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Nostalgic Christmas Minishows

2007-12-09 23:32:55

When I was little, I remember my mom being excited when Suzy Snowflake came on TV. That, along with Frosty the Snowman and Hardrock, Cocoa, and Joe were little ...
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The Internet Made Us Dumb

2007-12-06 14:26:45

A long time ago in a galaxy so much like our own that it is our own, children actually learned. "Learned what?" you might ask. Anything... anything at ...
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Woohoo! Buzz Out Loud 613

2007-11-30 10:25:04

Ok, so I get too excited when my comments make it into the podcasts I listen to. But at 37:20 of Buzz Out Loud 613 they read my email ...
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WAV conversion with Perl

2007-11-28 11:29:26

Most linux users know that if they want to make an audio cd from their mp3 collection it can be somewhat troublesome. Due to the licensing cost involved with ...
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You Stay Classy, San Diego

2007-11-20 09:33:50

Anyone who knows me knows that I love the movie "Anchorman." One of Ron Burgandy's famous signoffs is, "You stay classy, San Diego." I was watching this week's ...
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Vox Nova Reunion

2007-11-16 00:40:27

It has been 10 years since the inception of Vox Nova at Mount Aloysius. The director, Nancy, decided (with a nudge from a fellow Novite, Stell) that it was ...
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Scarehouse

2007-11-12 23:07:19

The wind howled as if Old Man Winter was right outside the front door. The trees shook, leaves disconnecting themselves and flying into neighboring yards. They pass in ...
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Reprogram Mazda Tribute Fob

2007-11-10 11:04:29

So you all know that my vehicle's electronics half died. That was the result of the BCM going bad. That, along with the throttle body (which was giving ...
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Chef Slonkak

2007-11-07 22:44:07

Let me begin by saying I have never cooked a meal in my life. I've helped my parents by doing stuff on the grill and other little things, but ...
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What is going on?

2007-11-07 11:35:04

Ok, so I had church practice yesterevening. When I finished, from inside the church, I hit the button on my remote starter so my car would be running when ...
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East Meets West 91... Featuring Me!

2007-11-02 20:16:07

Ok, so my voice isn't in the podcast, but my words are. East Meets West is a podcast done by Tom Merritt (from Buzz Out Loud) and Roger Chang ...
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Quailman!

2007-10-31 21:42:32

That's right. All you people around my age probably remember the Nickelodeon show "Doug"... Well, for Halloween I was his alter-superhero-ego, Quailman. And you know what the ...
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<voice type="rudolph">I'm cute!</voice>

2007-10-29 17:31:15

I went to Boscov's to get some things; some Blistex, a draft dodger (I didn't know that's what they're called either), and some kitchen sink mats. I go to ...
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Move-in: T -1 Day

2007-10-27 16:35:59

Well my dad, Uncle Dave, and myself moved in a lot of my stuff today. So I decided to take some pictures of how everything was coming along. ...
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Create the Über-LiveCD

2007-10-19 13:13:59

So yesterday was the day. Finally the extremely custom LiveCD was in a perfect working condition. Now, if you're expecting this CD to cure cancer or do your ...
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I Wasn't Painting ;)

2007-10-14 16:16:11

I finally finished painting today. After finishing the last two ceilings I put together both of my computer desks so I have a big U-shaped desk. It turned ...
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Stupid Literalness

2007-10-11 11:49:10

I've stepped into something new... trying to create a very custom live cd. There are tools, specifically Revisor, that let you create a custom Fedora live cd. While ...
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C Programming 101

2007-10-08 20:42:30

So you're in your intro to programming course, writing in C, and you're given an assignment that will actually make you think. You need to write a program that ...
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More House Pictures

2007-09-30 21:37:01

Now that all of the new furniture is in, and I got some stuff for the dining room, I took some more pictures. I also got some of the ...
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Chuck: My New Favorite Show?

2007-09-26 22:02:02

Ever since the second season of Alias, that was my favorite show. Why not the first season? Before episode 1 when I first saw the preview of a ...
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Slonka Family Pedigree

2007-09-22 22:44:28

About a month or so ago we had a Slonka family reunion. One of our relatives went through tons of hard work to research all of our ancestors and ...
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My New House

2007-09-22 22:38:34

On the 14th I closed on my house!!! My mom, dad, and myself spent a lot of time cleaning, spackling, taping, and painting. But after all of that ...
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Misconceptions of Tor

2007-09-13 14:09:05

There have been some articles recently about Tor, specifically with people getting their sensitive information stolen while using Tor. The gist was, "I'm using Tor, my information should have ...
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United Way Day of Caring

2007-09-13 08:08:47

Yesterday was the United Way Day of Caring. Myself along with four co-workers got assigned to work at Mom's House in Roxbury. For those who don't know, Mom's ...
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Custom Ringtones on Verizon Motorola RAZR2 V9M

2007-09-11 17:38:09

My usual stance is, "I hate ringtones!" I do, I really, really do. They're annoying, people pick the most ridiculous songs, and they're so loud. But once ...
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Use Gripfoo to Fix Stupid Filenames

2007-09-03 21:40:55

Since I totally switched to Linux, I haven't done any cd ripping. I used to use CDex on Windows and really liked it. That, however, isn't available for ...
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One Way To Manage Bills

2007-08-24 17:21:10

Do you still manage your bills by hoping you have enough money in your checking account each month? I'm not saying I can solve your problems. If you're ...
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Fooify your VBScript

2007-08-24 12:57:11

As any system administrator knows, due to the Windows Scripting Host (WSH), VBScript is a native language to Windows machines. By native, I mean that you can execute the ...
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Hi-Def Winner? My Pick...

2007-08-24 09:27:12

Well the "war" has been going on for quite some time now. Sony's BluRay and Toshiba's HD-DVD continue to battle it out. But is it all for nothing? ...
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I Pwnd Myself

2007-08-23 17:24:37

Seriously, how does this stuff happen? It all started as me preparing for teaching next week. I found out that the students would not have admin rights on ...
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The Case for Absolute Positioning

2007-08-16 07:32:33

This is an argument I get into every so often with people. Whether, in your graphical applications, whether they be fat or web apps, to position your elements relatively ...
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What Happened to the Internet?

2007-08-15 15:50:16

The internet has come a long way in it's short existence. But it seems that the parts of the internet that are valuable grow exponentially less than the parts ...
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Be Anonymous with Tor and Privoxy

2007-08-13 20:20:19

So I decided that I've had enough of the world knowing what I'm doing. I've gone anonymous with Tor and Privoxy. What are they, you ask? Privoxy ...
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Are You Prepared?

2007-08-06 13:12:19

In the event of a terrorist attack, do you know what to do? Most people don't. Be sure to check out this site to inform yourself. http://www.safenow.org/. Also, ...
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Josh Groban Concert

2007-08-05 21:14:43

Josh Groban came to the Mellon Arena Saturday, August 4. Back in April when I heard the tickets were going on sale, I immediately went to Ticketmaster's website. ...
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It's Made of What?

2007-07-30 20:53:09

I just, literally like 30 seconds ago, saw a commercial for Tampax. It appears they have a new product, Tampax Cardboard. Can someone from the woman community please ...
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Email from the Command Prompt

2007-07-25 14:33:39

This is something I've known how to do for quite some time, but I thought it would be beneficial to others if I documented it (and myself for when I ...
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Weekly Dose of Tech

2007-07-23 17:48:53

I've been a fan of ZDTV since the beginning; The Screensavers, Call For Help, etc. Then they turned into TechTV. Then G4 bought them and screwed everything up, ...
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Note to the World: Beware!

2007-07-17 20:48:19

My cousins are in this week, so I went up my aunt's house to play with them tonight. Ryan, who is 4, loves Star Wars. We were wrestling ...
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#10 FTW!

2007-07-10 21:51:33

Can you spot the geek? Rather, can you spot the #10 rider? No? Well, if you know a thing or two about different number bases you would. ...
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Fireworks

2007-07-04 22:48:07

Well, the fireworks went off without a hitch. This was my first time actually taking pictures with the intent of them turning out good. I used my Canon ...
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Goodbye Money

2007-07-04 16:42:50

I must love to spend money. Seriously. In the past two days I bought a new TV and a Yamaha YFZ450. But I am excited about both. ...
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Trikefest 2007

2007-06-26 09:43:05

As most of you know, last week (Thursday-Sunday) I went to Trikefest with Rhuel. To give you some backstory, I have never ridden an ATV before. Actually, other ...
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Paul Potts Winning Announcement and Performance

2007-06-17 17:49:02

Source: http://www.youtube.com/v/qwkVnyfdGYQ ...
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Paul Potts Wins!

2007-06-17 17:32:05

He's done it! Paul Potts is the winner of Britain's Got Talent! Here is his final performance, the full version of Puccini's Nessun Dorma. Source: http://www.youtube.com/v/K_5W4t_CBzg ...
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Paul Potts - Con Te Partiro

2007-06-14 21:32:19

He's done it again. All three judges are pretty much speechless, even Simon Cowell. This week's song was Con Te Partiro, originally written as a duet for Andrea ...
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Britain's Got Talent... Seriously!

2007-06-12 22:22:30

This made the front page of Digg, so you probably already read/heard about it. That doesn't matter; it's worth sharing again. You've all heard of the TV show ...
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Better way to work with images

2007-06-10 22:04:56

So I found a better (maybe?) way to show the images in your database without making a database call for each. I guess I'll get right into the changes ...
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Storing images in a MySQL database

2007-06-09 13:48:46

I've been working with a friend on an e-business site lately. I had an idea of storing the images in the database instead of the filesystem. I had ...
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Using SAN disks in Windows

2007-06-05 09:01:05

So you have a fibre-channel SAN connected to some servers and you want to know the correct way to make Windows see the space... Assuming you have done everything ...
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Kill the unkillable process

2007-05-24 18:18:16

In the article I posted yesterday, I mentioned certain processes that cannot be killed by conventional means. You were probably thinking, what are conventional means and how would I ...
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One way you've probably been owned

2007-05-23 13:18:43

This all stemmed from wanting to teach a friend at school a lesson: lock your computer! Quite regularly this person would get up and leave his computer unattended and ...
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Leo goes down for the count

2007-05-21 13:36:18

I was just listening to episode 98 of TWiT and the funniest thing happened. The guys were right in the middle of a talk about Starcraft and other games ...
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Review of Blink Personal Edition

2007-05-15 21:37:24

I've been playing around with Blink for a little bit now and would like to share some of the things that have been running through my head. If you'd ...
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Goodbye Symantec, Hello eEye

2007-05-14 14:10:03

I was listening to the Security Now! (RSS) podcast, produced by TWiT, and heard some stuff I really liked. The latest podcast, Episode 91, featured Marc Maiffret from eEye ...
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G3 '07 in Greensburg

2007-04-13 10:41:24

I don't even know where to begin. These guys were awesome! Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, and Paul freaking Gilbert... wow. I didn't know this, but Greensburg ...
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Getting an AD domain's netBIOS name from a UPN

2007-03-23 21:26:26

I have been doing some C++ Win32 development lately and wanted to share two custom functions I needed to write. The point of my project was to authenticate a ...
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LDAP Injection

2007-03-08 16:27:45

After taking some time to learn about SQL injection, I decided to learn a little about other types of injection; specifically LDAP injection. So after reading some whitepapers, I ...
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Beryl skydome image not working?

2007-02-18 12:52:18

So you installed Beryl, you put a cool picture of giraffes as your wallpaper, and to complete the effect you want to put clouds as the skydome image. But ...
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Install SUS on XP

2007-02-09 14:26:12

Are you sick and tired of installing a new system and having to download countless updates from Microsoft just to get your system up to date? Wouldn't it be ...
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DISH HD... WOW!

2007-01-25 18:23:32

So yeah... wow! The guys just left about a half hour ago and everything's up and working awesomely. Right now I'm watching a Pretender's concert and it's like ...
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First thoughts on the new tv

2007-01-20 22:41:06

Before my first thoughts, here's a tiny description of what I had to do to prepare for the new tv. Step 1: In the office, I had to pull back the ...
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Day 3 with my new TV...

2007-01-19 21:03:30

...and it's working great! It was a real pain to get everything set up; rerouting about 10 coax cables, drilling holes for them through the floor and braces, nailing ...
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Day 2 with my new TV...

2007-01-18 21:22:12

...and it's still not hooked up. When it got here yesterday, it was pretty cold since it was in a FedEx truck for who knows how long. I ...
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Update linux on a thumb drive with `yupdate`

2007-01-13 21:23:06

I just got a new 4GB USB thumb drive. How should I use it? You guessed it, Linux. Just to be safe, I took the hard drive ...
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Beethoven's Fur Elise... performed by the HP ScanJet 4c

2007-01-11 23:37:43

That's right... And you thought scanners were only for taking all of your important documents and archiving them so the sprinkler test on that floor didn't put you out ...
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Game that makes your brain hurt

2007-01-06 00:32:07

Not too long ago this game, http://www.ouverture-facile.com/riddles/index.html, was posted to Digg. There are no instructions, just one clue per puzzle and the rest is up to you to figure ...
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Westell 327W and Dell Wireless chipset issue: FIXED!

2007-01-02 21:34:48

For the longest time Verizon has been shipping the Westell 327W wireless router/switch/dsl modem to it's DSL customers. What their QA people never bothered to test were the major ...
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IE7 breaks CSS... again!

2006-12-29 21:59:35

Most web designers who make use of CSS extensively know full well how IE, specifically version 6, doesn't render CSS correctly... at all. I mean, it's not even close. ...
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I changed the face of Google!

2006-12-27 17:17:33

Anyone remember the old days of Google's personalized homepage? Yeah, you got all the RSS feeds you wanted, but you were stuck with the plain Google logo day after ...
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Merry Christmas!

2006-12-25 21:29:43

Did you have a merry Christmas? I did. I really only wanted one thing, a Nintendo Wii. Well, I got one. I'm already in pain. ...
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A Problem 98% Of You Can't Solve

2006-12-22 23:09:01

I was browsing digg when I came over the famous Zebra puzzle, except it was reworked a little bit. It's been said that Einstein claims 98% of the population ...
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Comments are functional

2006-12-21 19:29:14

The comment feature has just been implemented. To make the site safter, I am stripping/converting any characters that could have harmful effects. Double quotes, single quotes, greater-than's, and ...
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Beginner's Guide to HD

2006-12-21 14:53:01

If you're like me, you started your search knowing anything and everything about LCD's as they pertain to computers; however, when it came to TVs, DVDs, and video games, you're ...
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Fedora Core 6 as a VMWare Guest OS

2006-12-20 14:27:46

A friend of mine had a Windows XP host and couldn't be without Linux. So I recommended installing VMWare and running Linux (specifically, Fedora Core 6) as a guest ...
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Site is online!

2006-12-20 09:43:52

Last night I bought kevinslonka.com. I got my hosting through webmasters.com. Their site impressed me with the amount of stuff they supported. So once I bought the domain and signed ...
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"The Simpsons" Knows About PA

2006-12-18 20:55:23

So I was watching The Simpsons tonight, the Kill Gil, Volumes I & II episode. There came a part when they were watching their TV. On the TV ...
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Programming Active Directory with .NET

2006-12-15 16:09:01

One thing I had to figure out was how to change an AD user's account expiration date via a web page written in VB.NET. Sounds easy, right? So ...
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Madrigal and Virginia

2006-12-05 20:34:14

This past weekend was the annual Madrigal Feast at Mount Aloysius. As always, it was a blast! I wasn't able to do it last year because it fell ...
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New Site Design

2006-11-30 14:39:55

It's been a long time coming, but I finally got a semi-working new site. I started a new job at Northrop Grumman on November 6. The project I will be ...
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And we shouldn't bomb them why?

2006-11-04 00:00:00

You have got to be kidding me. Why are we not bombing these people. Call me imperialist, call me closed-minded, I don't care. Someone needs to stop ...
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VMware and Fedora Core 6

2006-10-31 00:00:00

Since I'm leaving CTC, I'll be giving back the laptop they gave me, which means that for class I have to use my laptop. No big deal, I got ...
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I Am Loving Fedora Core 6

2006-10-27 23:00:00

I haven't used my laptop in a while. My desktop runs XP and I don't need another Windows computer. I wanted to make my laptop run some form ...
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A Date Which Will Live In Infamy, Not Really

2006-10-23 23:00:00

So today was the day. I got to work to find that my manager's office was dark. No problem. It can wait a few minutes. So ...
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Goose's Wedding

2006-09-15 23:00:00

So Goose called me one night and asked if I'd be the cantor for his wedding. That was awesome. But then he told me that I'd be singing ...
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Movie Review: Just Friends

2006-09-08 23:00:00

Because of a friend's recommendation, I ordered "Just Friends." It arrived yesterday, but due to me having no time whatsoever, I just now watched it. I was very ...
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It's almost vacation time!

2006-09-06 23:00:00

So I was talking to Chrissy on MySpace and mentioned that I need a vacation. I got about a month of vacation time saved up and need to go ...
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Wedding pictures

2006-09-02 23:00:00

I finally got a link to the pictures from Jeremy and Kaleena's wedding. I saved the ones that pertained to me and put them in my PhotoBucket storage. ...
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Favorite clips

2006-09-01 23:00:00

I can never seem to find the clips I want to watch when I want to watch them, so I decided to take the time to find them and let ...
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Seriously!...

2006-08-21 23:00:00

One of my really good friends, Kerrie, is moving to Rochester this weekend. With all of the stuff she has to get done before moving, I knew I would ...
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Ohh, it's the deep burn. Oh, it's so deep. Oh, I can barely lift my left arm.

2006-08-19 23:00:00

Why, you ask? Patience... So yesterday was Jeremy's wedding. I was the best man. That's right, the best. Being the best man means I have ...
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Work with me here... you're a monkey, Derek!

2006-08-14 23:00:00

So yesterday the package arrived! My new camera! I've been waiting for this for a while. The Canon EOS 30D with the standard 18-55mm lens, a 28-135mm ...
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Kelli got engaged!

2006-08-11 23:00:00

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You're makin' me mad!

2006-08-07 23:00:00

You know what? I hate you. I'm serious. You are the bane of my existence. I can go weeks at a time with no communication from ...
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Do you know the muffin man?

2006-07-28 23:00:00

Hmm, so I guess in order for you to understand this story, you need to hear two smaller stories first. All names of people (except mine) and buildings will ...
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Pittsburgh

2006-06-22 23:00:00

This past Tuesday I left for Pittsburgh. It was again time to do a little acting for work. Our multimedia group gets contracted to produce video training applications ...
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Birthday and concert

2006-05-17 23:00:00

Happy birthday to me! 22. So I come home from work and see this... My sister colored a picture and put a balloon on my door. I ...
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Shopping spree

2006-04-22 23:00:00

I realized something. I like to spend money. I found this out today by going shopping for stuff that should have only cost in the ballpark of $30 ...
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New stuff

2006-04-19 23:00:00

I got some new shirts and cufflinks recently. For some reason people like reading about my clothes... *shrug*. Well, here are my cufflinks... ...
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Did Wendy's sign a cheese contract?

2006-02-11 00:00:00

Yeah, so I was hungry today and decided I'd go to Wendy's. I also needed gas and money, so it was a useful errand trip to the bank and ...
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Fibre sucks!

2006-02-07 00:00:00

"Oooooo, I'm fiber... I break everything I touch." It was taunting me. That's what our NAS (Network Attached Storage) cluster was taunting me with last night at 9PM ...
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Superbowl XL Champions!!!

2006-02-05 00:00:00

Did you hear it? Seriously, did you hear it? I did. "Here we go Steelers, here we go!" I heard it all throughout the game. ...
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New ties

2006-02-04 00:00:00

Since Christmas I've gotten a few new ties. Pretty neat ones if I may say so myself. I figured I'd share them with anyone who cared. ...
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More scripts and project FileFly

2006-01-24 00:00:00

Well I had said before that I was writing some scripts at work. I decided to share them with you. They both are vbscripts. The first one ...
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STEELERS, singing, and scripting

2006-01-22 00:00:00

How bout them Steelers!!! I got to watch the first 3 quarters live, but then had to get on the road back to the Mount for choral practice. ...
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My bad luck at work

2006-01-06 00:00:00

Forest underscore-zone zone transfers matter In our environment, we are sharing a single DNS namespace with Windows and *NIX hosts. Because of this, BIND owns foo.com (the same namespace as ...
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Happy New Year, Work, Fun with Dick & Jane, and New Computer

2006-01-04 00:00:00

Yeah, the title makes it seem like I have a lot to talk about. So Happy New Year!!! As usual, I did nothing special. I was going ...
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Christmas and Christmas Party

2005-12-26 00:00:00

Christmas kind of snuck up on me this year. I remember thinking back in August, "Hmmm, school should be starting about now. Christmas is a loooong time away." ...
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New Site Design

2005-12-21 00:00:00

Well, the old site had been up for about a year and I thought I'd be productive with my downtime and redesign it. I started by making a site ...
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Kelli's Chorus Concert

2005-12-19 00:00:00

Tonight was my sister's Christmas chorus concert. It was as to be expected, until the Senior Chorus took the stage. One of their songs was Believe from the ...
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Christmas/Birthday Party

2005-12-17 00:00:00

This Saturday was a little Christmas party. Well, actually the Christmas party was a cover for a surprise birthday party. One of the girls I work with in ...
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NYC

2005-12-10 00:00:00

Saturday was an organized trip for Mount Aloysius alumni to New York City. It started with an early wake at, yes that's right, 2AM Saturday morning. We were ...
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CTC Christmas Party

2005-12-04 00:00:00

Last night was CTC's Christmas Party. It was a blast. I originally wasn't going to have a date, as the two girls I asked bailed. However, one ...
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Another trip to Alexandria and White Paper

2005-11-16 00:00:00

So Sunday night I went on my second trip to Alexandria. This time was for more observation than anything else. The vendor, which happens to be based from ...
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Masters degree and mysterious phone call

2005-11-01 00:00:00

Today during lunch there was a meeting for anyone interested in a masters degree program that could possibly be coming to CTC. Yes, you heard me, coming to CTC. ...
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Back from Alexandria and SNL

2005-10-27 23:00:00

Well I got back from Alexandria late Wednesday night. It was a cool three days. Actually, interesting is a better word. When I got into the office ...
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Blind date, Alexandria, and a new phone

2005-10-21 23:00:00

So at the beginning of last week one of my friends starts talking to me under an unfamiliar screenname. I thought she was being like most other morons out ...
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I have a fever...

2005-09-29 23:00:00

...and the only cure is more shoes! That's right, I'm stylin' and profilin'! I got my second pair of shoes in the mail today... Yeah, some say my shoes ...
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Howdy Cowboy!

2005-09-24 23:00:00

My dad left for Texas last week. He's one of about 15 from this area (Johnstown, Indiana, Somerset, Altoona) who went to help restore power to the 600,000+ residents ...
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Can my life get any worse?

2005-09-14 23:00:00

Well, I guess I could be dead. That would be worse, right? Things at work have been going great. I'm actually the person in charge of our new wireless ...
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It's really over

2005-08-27 23:00:00

I guess no amount of work would help us out. I went over Friday night and we had a great time. I woke up Saturday morning around 11. ...
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The page has been turned

2005-08-22 23:00:00

I came home today and had to help my mom with an excel spreadsheet. She needed to make one look like something she had on paper. She had ...
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Turn the page

2005-08-20 23:00:00

Another day is gone, and another chapter has been written. I can only hope that this story follows suit in the tradition of classic love stories. I can ...
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What the friggin $%#@$@%#@#%

2005-08-09 23:00:00

Let's play a little game, shall we? What is this? A. The pin to a grenade the size of my head B. A Presto Pin C. The item that impaled my tire ...
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Too much time to think

2005-08-07 23:00:00

Ya know, I was talking to Mary tonight on IM and I started thinking, "What happened?" All of a sudden it's like I'm the last person she wants to ...
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Mary's Family Reunion

2005-08-06 23:00:00

This weekend was fun! It was Mary's family reunion. I was kind of surprised when she invited me to it a month or two ago. I mean, ...
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Aaron's Graduation Party

2005-07-29 23:00:00

Saturday was Aaron's graduation party. Yes, it does seem a little late, considering we graduated the first week of May. Either way, I wasn't going to miss it. ...
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Oh White Water, Keep On Runnin'

2005-07-23 23:00:00

This weekend was fun. It was the annual camping and rafting trip at Ohiopyle (or nearby). We camped at the Tall Oaks campground, which is in the middle ...
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You're invited!

2005-07-15 23:00:00

Kevin: I would like to extend an invitation to you to the pants party. Mary: Excuse me? Kevin: The pants party... The party... with the pants... Mary: Do you mean that there's ...
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Moved image storage to photobucket.com

2005-07-11 23:00:00

Because Verizon is stupid and only gives me 10MB of website storage, I had to resort to offsite storage for my images. I had an account at photobucket.com for ...
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You kiddin' me? Nope, I'm SIRIUS!

2005-07-05 23:00:00

So my dad got SIRIUS satellite radio for his Jeep. He decided to go with the lifetime membership, which cost around $500. After using his logon to the ...
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Company Re-Org, Fun Weekend, Fourth

2005-07-03 23:00:00

Ok, so Friday was July 1. That's the day that the company had a reorganization. Specifically my group. We're always getting thrown around. Anytime there is ...
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Def Leppard, State Police Youth Camp, Birthday Party

2005-06-25 23:00:00

A pretty eventful couple of days. Thursday was awesome! Mary and I went to the Chevy Ampitheatre in Pittsburgh at Station Square to see Def Leppard. Tesla ...
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A little overdue... sorry.

2005-06-21 23:00:00

Whopps. Looks like I forgot to check in for the past month. Lots of stuff has happened. The week of the 6th I was in Annapolis for work. ...
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Finally 21!

2005-05-21 23:00:00

Wednesday, May 18, I turned 21. Since it was a work day, we decided to go to happy hour at Chili's after work. I had no clue what ...
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Could my life get any better?

2005-05-13 23:00:00

Well, my day started out with a nice greeting from the other side of the world. Since Thailand is 11 hours ahead of us, I was waking up as ...
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Weird!

2005-05-10 23:00:00

I don't even know where to start... Oh wait, got it. It all started a few days before graduation. I only have four graduation tickets, however five family members ...
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Move, new monitor, and graduation

2005-05-05 23:00:00

I moved back home last week, that was a pain. But I decided that I was going to get a new computer desk... a smaller one. I ended ...
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Semi-Formal and Musical

2005-04-16 23:00:00

April 9 was the Mount Aloysius Semi-Formal. I went without a date, but in the back of my mind I kept telling myself I would leave with one. ...
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iPod!!!

2005-03-25 00:00:00

OK, so have you ever seen that FedEx commercial where the guy is not quite dressed because delivery people never show up when they're supposed to, then the FedEx guy ...
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DB Design test, possible vacation, and Netgear WAP repurposing

2005-03-11 00:00:00

Since I'm a genius, and am graduating with a BS in three years, I had to overload lots of semesters. However, there are two classes I could not get, ...
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Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, and Andy Griggs

2005-02-26 00:00:00

Wow! That pretty much sums it up. My sister and I went to the concert tonight and it was awesome. Even though I didn't really know any ...
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Job Interview

2005-01-27 00:00:00

A few new positions have opened up at work in another group. I have been interested in information security for some time now. So, I decided to apply ...
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Alias, School, and more...

2005-01-12 00:00:00

Lots of things have happened. First off the new season of Alias started last Wednesday. It's awesome! Definately not where I thought it was going to go. ...
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Double dose of happiness

2005-01-02 00:00:00

Two good things happened today. First, I finished organizing my music collection. I used to have every song in one folder without ID3 tags. Then I started ...
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Happy New Year!

2005-01-01 00:00:00

Another year gone... I never did like changing to a new year. I always forget when I write the date on important papers, i forget how old I ...
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I hate computers!

2004-12-31 00:00:00

The computer in my mom's office has needed redone for quite some time. So I finally decided to do something about it. It's an old 300MHz AMD K-6 ...
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Site layout takes shape

2004-12-30 00:00:00

Wow, today really sucked. There was even less to do today than yesterday. Needless to say, I had a lot of time to work on this layout. ...
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Website construction has begun

2004-12-29 00:00:00

Well, I got bored at work between Christmas and New Years. It seems that everyone takes off on those days, which left me with not a lot of work ...
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