UFies.org Down

Seeing as this is about the only place people can check regarding Ufies.org, here’s whats going on (regarding it’s lack of existance right now): Something to do with Telus, and my ISPs connection to them. It started going flakey around 2am, and died completely around 3am. They have been notified, and I presume it’s being […]

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Quotes on Cash

Found in the fark thread about Johnny Cash’s passing was this page of quotes about him. My favorite: […] Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash.    — Bono

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Thanks Johnny, and Goodbye

Engel was the one who first broke the news to me that Johnny Cash died today at 71. A very sad day. I remember listening to a greatest hits tape of his when I was 11 or 12 or so while working on plastic airplane models in the basement, after getting it for christmas or

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Happy Birthday Engel

My good buddy Engel, though he may be on the other side of the continent right now, is having a birthday today. My best wishes for the best day my friend. Happy Birthday! Having your wife come home the day before (or day before the day before) your birthday must be one of those scary

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Shrinks Calling Microsoft

An interesting article on The Register about the flood of “we funded this study but that doesn’t matter because it proves windows is better than linux” that Microsoft has sent out lately. Taken with the grain of salt that Register articles must always be taken with, they have a point. There was some discussion a

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People You Meet

After work I hit the gym. 45 min on the treadmill at 6.3mph, a couple of sets of biceps and triceps (but not too much) and then home, as there is a bit of paperwork to do. I pulled into my parking spot as usual, grabbed my slightly sweaty smelling gym bag from the trunk

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More Stupid Advertising

Do people really fall for this shit? Just for a lark I loaded up a link from spam that got through my spam filter. The subject was funny as well, holy pretend-techspeak: “ISP Alert – Ticket ID: 1638505610 – Type(t)“. Sounds pretty fucking important huh? If they could have made the subject line a different

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New Hardware Tales of Woe

Jeremy’s woes are the reason that I didn’t mind the $50 “assembly” fee when I ordered my new computers today. Of course, I didn’t include buying an OS, so not all hassles are going to be eliminated. But neither of them will run (sadly) Linux, so it’ll be just the assembly hassles that I’m eliminating.

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Getting New Boxen

Well, after some considering and waffling I’ve decided to upgrade the computers in my office. Unlike the last time this will not be the main workstation (which is humming along just fine) but the “secondary” windows box and Firefly’s system as well. I found Discovery Computers, a new store in town (to me, it’s two

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