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Entries for August, 2006

Top Ten Signs you are a Geek

Your friends call you for computer problems constantly The number of computers in your house is more than the number of people You have more than one wireless access point in your house More bedrooms are filled with computers than people You know your WEP key by heart Your house has more than one VLAN […]

Test Post

Testing 1, 2, 3 Also congrats to Tandra and her team for winning their state softball tourney yesterday.

Internet is Broken

Is it just me or is there a lot of stuff broken on the Internet tonight? I’ve noticed a high number of dead links, my sharebuilder account is down, WordPress is not working right, and everything is just really slow… I feel like I’ve been transported back 10 years to dial-up and incomplete sites and […]

Dammit WordPress.

This new auto save feature does not work with Firefox on Linux.  I click publish and my posts disappear. WTF? I love WordPress but this is really annoying. How about fixing the error about not enought permissions when adding new categories also. Actually I can’t get anything to post from wordpress’s editor anymore. I had […]

Just Sayin…

Why not to raise the minimum wage

Right now, Congress is deciding on whether to raise the minimum wage for the country and by how much. I don’t think they should raise it at all and here is why: We want to raise the minimum wage to help out those that are trying to make a living on minimum wage but raising […]

Just Give Me a Choice

Last night I sat down to spec out a new computer. Not that I really need one but I wanted to know what I could get for lets say under $400. I went to HP and Dell and looked at their entry level machines and added at least 1GB of ram with an AMD processor […]

Major Oil Field Shut Down

Watch the pump prices climb… ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a sudden blow to the nation’s oil supply, half the production on Alaska’s North Slope was being shut down Sunday after BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. discovered severe corrosion in a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line. BP officials said they didn’t know how long the Prudhoe Bay […]

Out camping last weekend…

We were out camping all weekend at New John’s Lake and had a pretty good time. The weather cooperated most of the weekend although it was a little windy on Saturday. After being out all weekend unplugged it almost takes a complete day to catch up on email and other things I missed while away […]

It Needed to be Said…

This is going to raise some eyebrows and get me all kinds of comments, but it needs to be said. I was reading the paper this morning (yeah I don’t know how we starting getting it but we do occasionally, but that is another story) and I found an article talking about a memorial for […]