More snow last night, and this morning the street was basically a skating rink. Took me about 5 tries to get out of the driveway, just working up the speed and momentum to get up the hill from the bottom to get up to the street. This of course avoiding any of the kiddies walking […]
I have been having some problems with Firefox not wanting to play flash or quicktime over the last week, and with the recent release of Firefox 1.5 release, I figured I’d do a full uninstall and reinstall to make sure everything is installed properly. First thing to do is backup your profile. Hell, back it
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First Snow of 2005 Originally uploaded by abailward. Last night I was told by a couple of people that we were getting snow… since my spidey senses didn’t detect incoming snow, I scoffed. However, come the evening, lo and behold a few dots of white were falling. Not more than a sprinkling, hardly enough to
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Sunday was a relatively busy day, as days in my life go. Me and my buddy Shawn went out to my aunt and uncle’s place in Vancouver in a big black borrowed truck (Firefly’s) to pick up a fridge and stove that were up for grabs. Other than a long drive in and out, it
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As you’ve probably noticed by the random links posted, I’m playing with Del.icio.us, a “social bookmarking” tool that’s been out a while, but that I’ve only really grokked the whole point of this recently, so pardon me if I go a bit nuts on it. One of the best short term advantages I get is
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overstated: Migrating to del.icio.us Yet more dlu stuff. (tags: del.icio.us delicious movabletype mt bookmarks perl web) ONLamp.com: Ajax on Rails (tags: ajax rails website design programming tutorial) ONLamp.com: Modern Memory Management, Part 2 (tags: programming c notes code tools)
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I’m not laughing at Rodrigo, I’m laughing at his DSL problems. He writes a pretty funny story that I’m sure is a familiar story for pretty much any techie. I’ve blogged about the secret tech handshake years ago, and I think that it holds true today.
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The Box O’ Truth #5 – The Locks O’ Truth Proof that if you have spare time and guns, you too can play mythbuster! (tags: guns locks howto) Changes to TCP/IP in Windows Vista (tags: vista longhorn networking) LDAP Browser/Editor Sexy little java based LDAP browser (tags: ldap software java browser editor workstuff) Softerra LDAP
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Comprehensive Listing of Del.icio.us Tools, Plugins and Add-ons for Social Bookmarking ? ?Change, Culture, Creativity, Communication? (tags: tools del.icio.us plugins blog) MovableBlog: Archives: Another Way To Integrate del.icio.us in Movable Type (tags: movabletype del.icio.us rss) The Complete CSS tutorial (tags: css web design html)
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Well not “new” I guess. We now have a dishwasher that works, where “works” is defined by “hooked up to both power and water, and not leaking the latter” and a new working washing machine (where “new working” is defined by “doesn’t require all loads to be run through twice to convince the machine to
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