The ultimate holiday?!?
Why didn't I find about the ultimate holiday sooner?Now I have to wait until next May to enjoy No Pants Day!
View Article*poke* *poke* Is this thing on. . . ? *poke*
*ahem* I think I'm still alive.That is all.(But I intend to post again tomorrow, and more frequently again. I'm feeling a need to "think out loud".)
View ArticleMugshot
I've been playing with a new website (or web application) I came across, called Mugshot. It's pretty slick.Kind of a social networking (plus other stuff) aggregation-ish tool. it's a Red Hat sponsored...
View ArticleWeekend!
Thank God the weekend is finally here. For a short week, this week felt four times longer than normal. I'm not sure if it's because we're trying to compress a five day week's worth of work into a four...
View ArticlePosting via jabber
Hrm. I thought I tried this before and it worked, but I appear to be having trouble getting a post to go through from jabber. Every time I try, LJ Bot (Frank) is complaining about an error.Grrr.
View ArticleOracle + PostgreSQL + PHP == huge pain
This just boggles the mind. This should absolutely not be this difficult, complicated, or frustrating.At work, I need a web server (RHEL4) with PHP installed, along with the support libraries for...
View ArticleIMAP, coming to a GMail near you.
Google has announced that they're adding IMAP support to Gmail. This will include both the standard Gmail, and also mail from Google Apps for Domains.Awesome.I wonder if Yahoo mail and Hotmail will...
View ArticleJeffrey Scott Cashell
July 19, 1979 - March 31, 2008Farewell, Brother. May you now find the peace that eluded you in life.You will be remembered.
View ArticleNo, I'm not okay. And screw your damn cat.
A few things that have seriously pissed me off over the past two weeks. . ."Are you doing okay?" Okay? Seriously? No, I'm not okay. Less than two weeks ago I went through the single worst day of my...
View ArticleLDAP + sudo == sysadmin happiness
Using the latest release of sudo, I was finally able to get sudo working with LDAP enabled on RHEL/CentOS 4. Previously, I had no trouble getting sudo working with LDAP on RHEL3 and RHEL5. However,...
View ArticleProduct Placement done wrong.
Wow. Product placement advertising has really gone to a new (bad) level these days.I was just watching the season finale of My Name is Earl and at two different points in the show did they feature a...
View ArticleClassicCloseouts.com Fraudulent Charges
So, back almost a year ago (October of '07), I purchased a couple of shirts from classiccloseouts.com. The shirts weren't quite as good quality as I'd hoped, but they weren't bad, and they were...
View ArticleClassicCloseouts.com Fraudulent Charges: Update
An update to the fraudulent credit card charges I received from classiccloseouts.com. . .Since I still haven't gotten any response at all from classiccloseouts.com, and they've now passed the deadline...
View ArticleTrans-Siberian Orchestra Tickets
I just got my TSO ticket order confirmation for this year's tour. November 1st (tour's opening day), 7:30pm, at the Mid-America Center.My tickets are Main Floor, Section B (center section), Row 8.I'm a...
View ArticlePolitical Newstainment
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but why is Sarah Palin such big news? A couple of coworkers were talking about her earlier, and one of them was talking about how impressed she was with Palin. I...
View ArticleAmazon, Audible.com, and DRM.
I recently came across a news article discussing Amazon's purchase of Audible.com, and a statement from Amazon about removing the DRM from Audible.com audio books if customers request it.As such, I've...
View ArticleTomorrow the sky comes crashing down. . .
It seems my life is going to experience a bit of an unanticipated twist. In the morning I will begin a transition towards a new path.Hopefully I made the right choice. Time will tell.I'll write up the...
View ArticleTwo roads diverged in a wood. . .
I turned in my resignation at work on Friday afternoon. Official notice was delivered to my department today, and I then went around and personally notified the people I like and respect. Amusingly,...
View ArticlePolitics, and voting for who's left after ruling out the crap.
I was discussing politics online with a friend of mine (always a good time!), and he suggested I should post it here. So, I spent a few minutes tidying it up a bit, and am throwing it up...
View ArticleGuns n Roses releases new album. . . who cares?
So, Guns n Roses has finally released their new album, Chinese Democracy, after being "in the works" for almost 15 years. Slash, who I would consider a vital and necessary part of GnR, has been gone...
View ArticleDuffy the "singer"
So, I was watching an episode of Saturday Night Live last night, it's one I Tivo'ed back a month or so ago, and the featured musical guest was a singer named Duffy. I'd heard the name, but knew nothing...
View ArticleLevenger: Customer Service Done Right
About a week ago, I purchased a handful of items from Levenger's outlet store, which is handled via eBay. Among the items purchased were 3 fountain pens, 2 dip pens, and a small picture frame. All of...
View ArticleCustomer Service done wrong.
So, after having finally purchased a house, I went to get cable and Internet setup. Like most of the country, I live in an unfortunate area where there is nearly a monopoly on cable and high speed...
View ArticleThe BEST player in College Football in 2009: Ndamukong Suh
A lot of people have trouble understanding how good Ndamukong Suh, the Defensive Tackle for the Nebraska Cornhuskers really is. There aren't many frames of reference for the statistics a DT generates,...
View ArticleGoogle Buzz.
This is a (probably temporary) post to attempt to integrate my LiveJournal into Google Buzz.
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