Author name: Arcterex

Spammacular Magic

Sometimes spam makes it’s way through my filters (though very rarely since I used training to exhaustion with my BogoFilter setup), and sometimes I read it just to see what the latest tricks are. This morning I was presented with this: “I must speak that I usually do not get soft on the internet, but […]

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Fun at Work

So I was thinking to myself as I got water today, seeing a developer (pokernut) walking down the hall: “I could pretend to trip him or pretend to punch him or horse a bit.” “No, no, no,” my mind replied, that would be immature, you’re a project manager and other important sounding things, that’s stuff

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Offline Message

As you may or may not know, Arcterex.net, normally residing on a server on my cable connection, is offline due to moving. As such, I’ve put this up on the ufies.org server until I can get the server up for real (hopefully this weekend). As such, here is the skinny. All my worldly goods are

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Offline Soon

This site will be going offline sometime wednesday or thursday as either Shaw cuts my connection to move it to the new place or I move all my computers. Should be back up in a couple of days max though, and the DNS should be less of a PITA this time. Just an FYI.

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Employed!

Got an offer which, while the way they do money is less straightforward than previous, still works out well I think. I haven’t officially accepted yet, but I will be. In fact, I’m going to be going to a meeting there in a couple of hours as it’ll be pertenant to my new job, even

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Grinding Fun

One of the things that is on the list of stuff to fix at the house was correcting the big bump in the floor. This involved FireflyBro bashing out supporting beams, hoping the house didn’t fall down, cutting or shaving as needed, and putting the beams back in. Got a couple of good shots of

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Even More Good News

Getting together for lunch with the folks from the company I applied with on Monday for them to present me with an offer. Whohooo! Unless their offer is somehow horrible (which I doubt), I see no reason not to accept. Just hope nothing falls through at the end. The only thing is that I’ll probably

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Some Better News

Still no job news, but I have my insider looking out for me in that area, and hear that they are interviewing another person (who hopefully isn’t nearly as good as I am), and hopefully will hear something by… the end of today? Monday? Fingers crossed. Some good news is that the police called yesterday

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Odd Windows Problems

For the last few days I’ve had some really odd windows problems. Not sure if they are related to XP Service Pack 2, but I haven’t done a huge amount of installing or modifying of the system since I installed XPSP2. Basically the system is fine until I leave it overnight, and then when I

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